Donella’s Tacos
Chad Donella is really a fine actor of my generation. He, unfortunately, has not gotten a chance to really shine in a perfect role yet, but the performances I have witnessed have all been fantastic.
He was in the X-Files episode “Hungry”, playing a brain-eating mutant. Just try to pull off that role in a heartwarming way, but he did it. And then there’s Taco Bell. Several years ago Taco Bell filmed a commercial with him overjoyed to be stuffing his face with a taco. We’ll likely be deluged with the commercial again when the X Games start showing in a few weeks.
Thing is, he filmed the taco commercial after the X-Files episode, as far as I know. And the X-Files episode has a scene where he compulsively and with great gusto sucks human brain matter off his fingers. Fictionally, of course. I hope. Same expression of glee as in the Taco spot.
So what, did some ad executive see his brain-sucking and think, “That’s the guy for us! Let’s have him dig into our tacos!” Did they have an open call for the commercial, or did someone call his agent and say, “Hey, send the brain-sucker over to chomp our tacos!” Would be interesting to find out. Probably.
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