A few weeks ago Natasha took me out for lunch on Newbury St. (Boston’s poshest area). As we were walking down the street a lady approached us and stated that we were the hottest couple on the street (um… ok) and that she and her partner were doing a documentary on the iPhone. She wanted to know if I wanted to say a few things on camera about it. I hesitated but Natasha urged me to do it, so I did.
A few weeks later I get a call from some producer at Moxie Pictures which is an agency that makes the commercials for Apple on behalf of Apple’s ad agency TBWA \ Chiat \ Day. The lady congratulated me and said that I landed the role as the next guy to be in Apple’s iPhone ad campaign! My reaction was like the caveman from the Geico commercial “YEAH, uh… what?” They said that they would fly me to NYC for a 2-day shoot next weekend. I even had to sign and FAX an NDA.
Apparently the documentary was just a cover, and that those people were simply casting for the agency.
Anyways, to make a long story short I am not able to do the campaign because I am not legally allowed to work in the USA.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Couldn’t Apple have sponsored you for a skilled worker VISA? I can’t tell from your website what nationality you are, but if you’re submitting videos to ZeD, you’re probably Canadian, in which case they could have gotten you a NAFTA VISA in a matter of days…
August 26th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Ask the boneheads to refer you to Sony Canada.
I have been following a bit of your journey……very cool!
Peace,
RJM