As he's filming 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' in Austin, Texas this week, the comedian teams up with the 'Interstellar' actor to make commercials for a local video store.
- Mar 18, 2015
AceShowbiz - Jimmy Kimmel brings his ABC talk show back to Austin, Texas this week for South by Southwest festival. Thanking local people who warmly welcomed the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" team last year, he wanted to give back by helping a local business to produce a TV commercial.
A local video store called Vulcan Video was chosen for the project and Kimmel enlisted the help of Texas-born actor Matthew McConaughey to make the ad. The comedian showed the store's owner the ads taped on VHS.
In the first version of the ad, Kimmel and McConaughey weighed the benefits of renting from Vulcan over streaming. They focused on Vulcan's free parking as asked by the store's owner in the second ad.
The "Dallas Buyers Club" star later promoted the store as being "classic," "retro" and "vintage," inserting his famous catchphrase "alright, alright!" He quoted a famous line from the wrong movie, "Star Wars", before he knocked Kimmel out with a Vulcan nerve pinch at the end of the third ad.
