Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | 13:49 GMT
Report: Helen Mirren paid £500k for Nintendo ad
MSN News is reporting that 65 year-old actress Helen Mirren received £500,000 to appear in a Wii Fit Plus advert.
“Nintendo insisted they wanted Helen and no one else,” a friend of Mirren’s said. “They wanted an older, more attractive woman to show that the Wii isn’t just for children.”
During the commercial, Mirren says, “You need never get bored as every day you can tailor a new workout.”
Mirren has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards during her career.
She is now “properly minted”.
Thanks, Kotaku.
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Posted in: Casual, Nintendo, Sports, Wii
Tags: helen mirren, wii fit plus
13 comments
#1
Psychotext
08/11/10, 1:50 pm
‘kinell.
#2
Joe Anderson
08/11/10, 1:56 pm
I’m available for ads any time you like Nintendo. I’ll even take just £250k
#3
David Sarkisjan
08/11/10, 1:59 pm
It’s kind of sad that it tooks celebs just to say something in front of a camera to get amount of money that would change just anyone’s life.
#4
StolenGlory
08/11/10, 2:02 pm
I still would.
#5
Johnny Cullen
08/11/10, 2:11 pm
:/
#6
OrbitMonkey
08/11/10, 2:18 pm
That ad was the 1st, last & only time she used a Wii…. Wonder how much Microsoft will pay her to do a Kinnect ad?
#7
horse
08/11/10, 2:36 pm
Best acting she’s ever done
#8
itsucks
08/11/10, 2:38 pm
@7: LMAO!
#9
Dannybuoy
08/11/10, 2:47 pm
You could at least expect her to get her wangs out for that kind of budget
#10
freedoms_stain
08/11/10, 2:50 pm
@9, we obviously have different understandings of the word “wang” unless you are in fact insinuating that Dame Helen Mirren has two cocks. And I ain’t talking chickens.
#11
NiceFellow
08/11/10, 2:51 pm
@9 I suspect you’d need to head well into seven figure territory for that one.
@7 I’d say not.
Still pales next to Kinect launch though – and that was remarkable wang free at $500 million.
#12
Dannybuoy
08/11/10, 2:57 pm
@10 – Nope, I mean boobs. Wangs, abbreviation of wangers. There may be some regional variances in the meaning of some words
#13
Uncontested
09/11/10, 6:30 am
sounds like a terrible waste of money.