Will Forte discusses his MacGruber Pepsi Super Bowl ad, recruiting MacGyver star Richard Dean Anderson, and the Peacock series' future.
Will Forte as MacGruber in Saturday Night Live. Image courtesy of NBC
"Pepsi had approached Lorne and said, 'Hey, do you want to take an SNL sketch and turn it into a commercial,' and somehow he picked MacGruber,"said."When he told Pepsi that MacGruber was what he wanted to go with, they quickly bowed out and said, 'You know what, maybe we don't want to do a Super Bowl commercial.'" The crew filmed three commercials to pitch to the soda conglomerate.
MACGRUBER — Pictured in this screengrab: Kristen Wiig as Vicki St. Elmo, Will Forte as MacGruber, Ryan Phillippe as Dixon Piper — Anderson's Angus MacGyver was made MacGruber's"father" until it was retconned in the Peacock series. Work on the second season has been under development and ready to go, but Forte is awaiting the comedy's fate from the NBC Universal streamer on top of the lingering strikes from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
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