Have you noticed that actors appearing in television commercials are not as physically attractive as they used to be?

Funny, my brother and I were just talking about this. He said that he saw some stats that said in 1990 12% of Americans were overweight. Now 40% are overweight. So if those are even close to being true, I would think that commercials are trying to reflect real people.

I think tv is trying to normalize their representatives – attractiveness, weight, mixed families, gay, variety of ethnicity, etc. They’re not perfect anymore.

Actors will probably do more commercials as they get older because they’re aging out of bigger projects. I’m guessing their agents are pushing them to accept smaller gigs.