{"id":317576,"date":"2021-08-07T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/limu-emu-doug-actor-on-his-newfound-fame\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:42:15","slug":"limu-emu-doug-actor-on-his-newfound-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/limu-emu-doug-actor-on-his-newfound-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Limu Emu & Doug’ actor on his newfound fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Limu Emu & Doug’ actor on his newfound fame<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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David Hoffman shares his famous acting role with an unpredictable emu \u2014 who\u2019s more recognizable than his human partner with the mustache and sunglasses.<\/p>\n

Hoffman plays Doug, the \u201970s-era throwback in the popular, ubiquitous \u201cLimu Emu & Doug\u201d commercials for Liberty Mutual Insurance.<\/p>\n

The ad campaign launched in March 2019 and has transformed the veteran actor into a rock star in the advertising world alongside the likes of \u201cCan You Hear Me Now?\u201d guy (Paul Marcarelli) or Flo (Stephanie Courtney), who promotes Progressive Insurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever once have I been recognized out on the street as Doug,\u201d said Hoffman, who\u2019s in his early 40s. \u201cHe looks like a character I\u2019ve never played before.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was a deliberate choice on Hoffman\u2019s part. The classically trained actor is an improv\/sketch-comedy veteran (The Groundlings School in LA) who played ex-jock writer Jim on Hulu\u2019s \u201cThere\u2019s\u2026 Johnny!\u201d (2017). <\/p>\n

He was coming off a two-season run on the UK sitcom \u201cI Live With Models\u201d when, just after Thanksgiving in 2018, his commercial agent called. \u201cHe said, \u2018Would you ever do [an ad] campaign?\u2019 and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t know. You can get pigeonholed and it can get corny,’\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cI said, \u2018Here are my parameters: it will be with a director I respect, something that I find funny and I don\u2019t want to look like myself.\u2019 He handed me his phone and said, \u2018This is the last day they\u2019re seeing people.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u201d turned out to be Liberty Mutual, who gave a brief descript<\/a>ion of Doug, but little else: \u201cHe\u2019s partners with an emu and genuinely and earnestly wants to help people customize their car insurance with the help of this bird.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI disappeared and came back and had the realistic mustache and a Members Only jacket and said, \u2018This is the guy,’\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cThere was no physical description of [Doug]. The role didn\u2019t call for a mustache; I just decided he should have a mustache. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat hooked me was that he was earnest and trustworthy. I have a brand of comedy I like \u2014 I call it \u2018Absurd Realism\u2019 \u2014 and I think it\u2019s just the funniest stuff there is. It plays as so grounded and real but its premise is absurd. Nobody [in the ads] is acting like there\u2019s anything unusual about this guy riding in a car with an emu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jHdH_Pbili4<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

And, if you\u2019re wondering, Hoffman does very little in-person acting with Limu the emu. \u201cThere are three emus at each shoot and we always use the same three,\u201d he said. \u201cOne who specializes in standing still, one who runs .. .we kind of change them out. We used them more on the very first shoot, but 90 percent of the time I\u2019m by myself looking at a piece of tape [subbing for Limu]. They bring the emus out afterward and do an amazing job in post-production with CGI.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re large and when they stick their necks up all the way they\u2019re taller than me \u2014 like a dinosaur with talons,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re kind of intimidating, but at least, with me, they\u2019re pretty gentle. At the first shoot one of them jumped up on a desk in a standing leap and got in my face, but I have no issues with wild animals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve worked with children who are more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nate Smith (from left), David Hoffman and Andrew Schulz in a scene from \u201cThere\u2019s\u2026Johnny!\u201d which premiered on Hulu in 2017.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Hulu\/Courtesy Everett Collecti<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that Hoffman has starred in the ad campaign for two-and-a-half years, he said he does have some input into his on-screen alter-ego.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider [the ads] to be a miniature series<\/a> where it\u2019s growing, and just like with anything the writers and actors get to know each other bette,\u201d he said. \u201cWith the bumper and the Liberty [jingle] we\u2019re down to 22 seconds for an ad, and with the \u2018You only pay what you need\u2019 tagline, now we\u2019ve got 15 seconds to play with. Before the shoot we get together and look for fun stuff to do. They give me the freedom to improvise, but there\u2019s not a lot of time. I just love the moments of silence, like at the barbecue [Doug to Limu: \u201cHot dog or chicken?\u2026hot dog.\u201d] <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re squeezing them in when we can.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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