Ben Affleck secretly works at Dunkin' Donuts.
The Oscar-winning actor surprised customers in the small town of Medford, Mass., driving their cars as they took orders in an exclusive Super Bowl ad that aired yesterday, Sunday, February 12.
The Good Will Hunting
actor can be seen
, headset to ear, serving in earnest at the donut chain drive-thru.
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The director, screenwriter and actor has for the occasion returned to this state on the east coast where he grew up and where the chain was founded.
"Welcome to Dunkin'," he says in this self-directed 30-second spot.
“How can it be so good and cheap?”
Some customers recognize it, very surprised to see the Hollywood star in this place.
One woman even asks to take a selfie with him, while others just want their food back.
“Do I look familiar?” he asks a customer who replies: “No”.
To another who looks at him in confusion: "You look a little lost", then he speaks to his headset: "Hold on, I'm trying to find the bagels".
At the end of the ad, his wife Jennifer Lopez also arrives at the drive and surprises him: "What are you doing here?!".
"You are embarrassing me in front of my friends...", he retorts.
“Is that what you're doing when you say you're going to work all day?” she asks him without getting upset.
Affleck tells the Dunkin' crew that he has to go now but J-Lo demands his frozen donut before leaving.
This partnership between the actor and the donut brand is obvious when you know that Ben Affleck is a regular at the brand, photographed many times outside Dunkin' cafes or carrying paper bags from the chain. .
So the company naturally asked for his help in doing its very first Super Bowl ad.
"We thought, who better to represent [our menu] than the ultimate Dunkin' fan, Ben Affleck?" said the company's chief marketing officer, Jill McVicar Nelson, in an interview with The Wall Street
Journal
.
Affleck's strong Boston accent didn't seem to disappoint.
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