Off Campus star Stephen Kalyn is starring in a brand new Verizon advert.
The model launched a one minute spot “Simplicity is Sexy” Tuesday morning, marking Kalyn’s first main model deal for the reason that launch of the favored college-set romance collection. “It was a little nerve-wracking at first but once I get onto the groove of things, it’s so much fun,” Kalyn tells The Hollywood Reporter on a latest name in regards to the expertise.
“Doing a commercial is so different from doing what I do naturally, so I didn’t know that world as much,” he says. “Now, I am happy I got to do it with Verizon. It’s so different.”
The black and white spot performs off a number of the iconic Calvin Klein advertisements — the actor mentions a selected Aaron Taylor-Johnson advert that served as inspiration for him. Verizon additionally introduced in director Bardia Zeinali, who directed the Calvin Klein’s Cope with It marketing campaign to deliver the imaginative and prescient to life.
Within the newly launched spot, which is supposed to spotlight the corporate’s newly launched Simplicity plan, a blonde Kalyn tells the digicam in voiceover, “It’s you. It’s only you. You’re the one.” The sultry music of INXS’ ”By no means Tear Us Aside” soundtracked Kalyn’s speech about being executed with the noise and the video games, as he dances round and even tosses his white tank prime towards the digicam.
Kalyn, who noticed a reduce of the video earlier than this dialog, couldn’t recover from how “cool” it was. The Off Campus actor mentioned the director, who shot the spot on movie, cranked a tune of Kalyn’s selection — “Hey Hey What Can I Do” by Led Zeppelin — and let him go. “You know when you’re listening to your song and you’re in the privacy of your own home?” he says.
“You can kind of just let loose and think to yourself, ‘Oh God, I really hope nobody would ever see me doing that in public.’ That’s kind of how I was feeling,” Kalyn says jokingly. “There was a peak moment where I forgot everybody was there, and I was in the zone and locked in and just focused.”
He provides, “That moment, running around dancing in my leather pants, was probably my favorite part.”
His household and buddies acquired a kick out of seeing the actor on this new mild. “I showed it to Victoria, my fiancée, and she was like, ‘Get home right now,’” he says laughing. “She loved it. She thought it was great.”
Verizon has leaned into these superstar spots within the latest months. Earlier this 12 months, Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie starred in a brief movie spot for the corporate directed by Nia DaCosta. “We set out to blend nostalgia with current zeitgeist, and partnering with Stephen and Director Bardia Zeinali brought that vision to life,” the corporate’s CMO Leslie Berland in a press release.
Kalyn had his breakout function final month within the hit Prime Video collection Off Campus. The 28-year-old Canadian actor performs Dean Di Laurentis within the collection. He’s set to lead the second season alongside his co-star and onscreen love curiosity Mika Abdalla, which is filming now in Vancouver.
Stephen Kalyn.
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“I’ve been very, very busy. Long, long days on set. I’m there pretty much every day,” he says of the progress of filming season two. However make no mistake, he’s not complaining and might’t cease expressing how pleased he’s to be there.
The capturing schedule, going from a supporting character in season one to a number one character in season two, has been a little bit of an alter, he says. “After the second week, you hit a bit of a crash for a minute and you just need a quick little revival. I was speaking to Louisa [Levy] about it. She’s not only a great showrunner but just a supportive person,” Kalyn says. “Her and I would chat and pick me back up again, if I was ever crashing out a bit or just getting a little tired.”
A bit over a month out from the discharge of Off Campus, Kalyn is genuinely grateful for the alternatives the present has supplied him. “It’s such a privilege to be able to do these kind of shoots and to work on commercials and ads,” he says. He jokes that he’s been seeing Verizon’s different advertisements with Storrie, Mike Meyers and Kevin Hart pop up on his feeds lately and might’t fairly comprehend he’s additionally doing these.
Stephen Kalyn.
Verizon
As for the remainder of Kalyn’s 12 months? “Success. Success. Success,” he manifests. “Hopefully more and more opportunities to work and to do really cool movies. I’d love to jump onto another project maybe a month after wrapping [Off Campus season two], but we’ll see what’s in store.”
