Today may be iPhone launch day, but for one Mac icon, this week has a different meaning altogether: Wednesday saw the opening of Live Free or Die Hard, starring Mac commercial portrayer Justin “Mac Guy” Long. The Washington Post has a two page profile on Long, who, though he plays a hacker in the movie, knows apparently very little about computers beyond how to download music off the Internet (we’re going to assume that means iTunes). Apparently he wouldn’t even take the free iPhone Steve offered him, because he was afraid he wouldn’t know how to use it. Dude, have you seen the commercials? Oh. Wait.
[His lack of technological prowess] evidently didn’t bother Apple chief executive Jobs, who specifically cast Long for the Mac-PC commercials. “Apparently I reminded him of himself,” Long explains. “Like a younger version of himself.”You know, that’s interesting. He does kind of look a little bit like Steve back in the day (see above).
Long is, of course, playing second fiddle to Die Hard star Bruce Willis, who we know is a Mac user in his own right.
“And the funny thing is, Bruce knows far more about computers than I do and was always on the computer, working the webcam,” Long says. “I’m really, really bad with gadgets and any kind of computer thing.”Even more ironically, it turns out Long is actually a New York City cop with a propensity for ending up in dangerous situations of incredible odds, and has managed to defeat a band of international terrorists while not wearing any shoes. Huh.
I don't think "Mac Guy" when I see him, I think of the brother in "Jeepers Creepers" 1 and 2 - both are good movies IMO.
Same thing with Rainn Wilson from "The Office," I first saw him in Rob Zombie's "House of a Thousand Corpses" movie.