Yahoo News Olivia Colman says dreadful AA advert nearly ruined her career
Before Olivia Colman was the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-hugging star of British TV and cinema, she was a jobbing actress like so many others.
As such, she booked her share of jobs that have since dropped off the bottom of her CV.
Like the 2004 AA adverts, in which she and actor Mark Burdis, aka Stewpot from Grange Hill, played a married couple fixated on car loans.
In one particular instalment, Kev and Bev meet themselves (from the future, or at least an alternate universe, it’s not specified) at a set of traffic lights, and say the words ‘Bev’ and ‘Kev’ ad nauseum.
It’s not her finest work.
“AA! That has become the bane of my life,” she told The Daily Mirror.
“I thought they were going to run that for about a week but they ran it for what felt like four times a day for a year.
“They ran it for a year having just given me a buy-out. It was really annoying. I lost some jobs.”
She’s made up for it since. Though she’s probably forgotten about this one too…
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