When “Star Wars: The Force
Awakens” brought actor Adam Driver to the mainstream consciousness, people took
notice of his intensity in portraying the sinister First Order agent Kylo Ren. The
following films only served to cement Driver as a Mister Fanservice to fans. It
especially helps that he is a very skilled actor, as seen in the 2019 Netflix
film “Marriage Story” where he held his own against costar Scarlett Johansson,
and got nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in 2020. But the hotness of Adam
Driver only reached incredible heights this week following a commercial he did
for Burberry where he becomes a centaur.
You read right. As USA Today puts it, a new ad for cologne
from the British luxury brand Burberry that came out this past Wednesday, July
28, has got fans of Adam Driver screaming their lungs out with glee. And who
can blame them? The “Burberry Hero” commercial is one minute of Driver in dark athletic
pants and nothing else, racing a horse across a beach and into the water. The
camera alternates cuts between actor and horse as they swim through the waves,
and with a camera trick or two, it was as if the two have combined on the way
back to shore.
Social media in that corner of
the internet exploded with discussion and praises sung for the lean but fit
Driver as seen in the Burberry commercial. Some joked that this ad might
actually win him an Academy Award or something, while the Twitter page of HBO
satire late-night talk show “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” comically
hinted that the program’s host, British-American comedian John Oliver who has
publicly admitted a man-crush on Driver, may be too distracted to tape new
episodes of the show.
Burberry’s official product blurb
on the Burberry Hero fragrance calls it a "new masculine spirit exploring
the house codes of duality and the power of the animal kingdom." And Adam
Driver turning into a centaur after his race with the horse can be interpreted
as metaphor, in which those who use Burberry Hero would undergo a personal transformation
into a new man: a Hero. While the real-life effects will not even come close to
this commercial, this must be some powerful cologne indeed. The actor did say
he was happy to do the ad for Burberry, so he must have confidence in the Hero
fragrance.
Image courtesy of The Independent.uk
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