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The Herald Scotland
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Father and son: Starring with Harrison Ford in whisky ad was ‘surreal'
The episodic ads are directed by actor and filmmaker Joel Edgerton, and feature the Star Wars actor playing himself as they follow the production of Glenmorangie Original 12 Years Old and The Infinita 18 Years Old, in Tain. The adverts, being shown on TV and social media and also available on YouTube, are said by Glenmorangie to celebrate 'the significance of its home, its craftsmanship and the people that make its award-winning whiskies'. Ford is shown on film getting to grips with Scottish pronunciation and kilt etiquette, bonding with locals over a dram, and getting to know the Duff family. READ MORE: In the second ad, The Campaign, Ford arrives and after mistaking Mr Duff Jnr for another Alan in another department, is given a lesson on how to pronounce Glenmorangie correctly. Mr Duff Jnr, a production operator, said: 'I was very proud to be chosen to play opposite Harrison. You knew you were in the presence of someone so successful, but he made us all feel so comfortable and gave me the advice to just be myself on screen.' He joined the distillery nine years ago after graduating from university, and said the Hollywood star made him forget they were being filmed. Mr Duff Jnr said: 'Filming the scene itself was a lot of fun, but totally surreal. He is such a good actor, I was in awe watching him and sometimes didn't know when he was in or out of character. 'He kept me on my toes when he went off script but gave me the space to wing it and bounce off of him, so much so I forgot the cameras were there. 'Not all fathers and sons have the opportunity to learn alongside each other so I consider myself lucky to get to work with my father every day, and sharing the experience acting alongside Harrison Ford together is something I'll never forget.' Promotional photograph of Harrison Ford wearing a kilt (Image: Lachlan Bailey) In the fifth advert, The Distillery, Ford meets the whole production team, including the father and son due, and he jokes to Mr Duff Snr: 'Ahhhh… he's your fault.' Ford then instructs Mr Duff Jnr: 'Look after me car' – a rare Eagle Speedster Jaguar E-type. In the 10th episode, called Teamwork, Ford raises his glass to toast 'the good people of Glenmorangy' – before being corrected again by Mr Duff Jnr, who tells him: 'It's Glenmorangie.' Mr Duff Snr, a production operator for nearly 30 years, said: 'I was quite nervous to 'act' alongside a global icon like Harrison Ford, but he was a gem of a guy and it was great to see him working. 'My son Alan managed to grow quite a rapport with him, so when Harrison uncovered the fact I was his father, we all had a joke about that.'
The Herald Scotland
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Father and son say starring with Harrison Ford in whisky campaign was ‘surreal'
The episodic ads are directed by actor and filmmaker Joel Edgerton, and feature the Star Wars actor playing himself as they follow the production of Glenmorangie Original 12 Years Old and The Infinita 18 Years Old, in Tain. The adverts, being shown on TV and social media and also available on YouTube, are said by Glenmorangie to celebrate 'the significance of its home, its craftsmanship and the people that make its award-winning whiskies'. Ford is shown on film getting to grips with Scottish pronunciation and kilt etiquette, bonding with locals over a dram, and getting to know the Duff family. In the second ad, The Campaign, Ford arrives and after mistaking Mr Duff Jnr for another Alan in another department, is given a lesson on how to pronounce Glenmorangie correctly. Mr Duff Jnr, a production operator, said: 'I was very proud to be chosen to play opposite Harrison. You knew you were in the presence of someone so successful, but he made us all feel so comfortable and gave me the advice to just be myself on screen.' He joined the distillery nine years ago after graduating from university, and said the Hollywood star made him forget they were being filmed. Mr Duff Jnr said: 'Filming the scene itself was a lot of fun, but totally surreal. He is such a good actor, I was in awe watching him and sometimes didn't know when he was in or out of character. 'He kept me on my toes when he went off script but gave me the space to wing it and bounce off of him, so much so I forgot the cameras were there. 'Not all fathers and sons have the opportunity to learn alongside each other so I consider myself lucky to get to work with my father every day, and sharing the experience acting alongside Harrison Ford together is something I'll never forget.' Promotional photograph of Harrison Ford wearing a kilt (Lachlan Bailey/PA) In the fifth advert, The Distillery, Ford meets the whole production team, including the father and son due, and he jokes to Mr Duff Snr: 'Ahhhh… he's your fault.' Ford then instructs Mr Duff Jnr: 'Look after me car' – a rare Eagle Speedster Jaguar E-type. In the 10th episode, called Teamwork, Ford raises his glass to toast 'the good people of Glenmorangy' – before being corrected again by Mr Duff Jnr, who tells him: 'It's Glenmorangie.' Mr Duff Snr, a production operator for nearly 30 years, said: 'I was quite nervous to 'act' alongside a global icon like Harrison Ford, but he was a gem of a guy and it was great to see him working. 'My son Alan managed to grow quite a rapport with him, so when Harrison uncovered the fact I was his father, we all had a joke about that.'
Toronto Sun
3 days ago
- General
- Toronto Sun
KINSELLA: Israel's move on Iran means the world is a safer place
Two men push trolley full with bought goods, as people stock up with supplies in Jerusalem on June 13, 2025. Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP We were beside the border with Gaza, in Israel's south, when the artillery shell hit. The explosion was pretty big, and it landed behind where I was standing. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account I was there with a mostly American film crew to shoot our documentary, The Campaign. It's about the propaganda war against Israel and the West. At the moment the shell exploded, I had been relating how Hamas took out communications and warning systems on October 7, 2023. The explosion shook the ground, and members of the crew dove for cover. I didn't really think about what I did, until afterwards, when one of the film's producers sent me the clip of the moment. I didn't move. I just stood there. Kind of dumb, I know, but I figure I had become an unofficial Israeli at that moment. I know this from spending several weeks in Israel over the past year. When you are there, sirens go off pretty regularly, and everyone starts to hustle — or, increasingly, stroll — towards a bomb shelter. The shelters have lots of different names: Mamad, miklat, merhav mugan, migunit, and quite a few others. Like, you know, the Inuit have many different words for 'snow' — because there is so much of it. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This is the Tel Aviv beach I spent a lot of time on for the weeks I was in Israel. This is the reality Israelis have to live through, every day. If daily missile attacks were happening to you, you'd want to be defended. And you'd want the world to stand with you, too. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 9, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. If there is a better example of language reflecting day-to-day reality, I don't know what it is. In Sderot — where Hamas slaughtered 53 people on October 7, many of them senior citizens using canes and walkers — the parks have fashioned play structures into bomb shelters. Just about every bus stop, across Israel, doubles as a shelter. Most homes have one. And when you check into your hotel, the staff will tell you the locations of the pool, restaurant, fitness room and the bomb shelter. Not always in that order. In Israel, everyone you meet, too, has an app on their phone showing when missiles and rockets are incoming: They'll you show the screen, and it'll be filled with red blobs, representing red alerts. They get thousands of those every single week. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Meanwhile, up north, your phone's GPS will be jammed and stop working, because the signal can be used to guide suicide drones, UAVs, explosive drones, and cruise missiles. The Houthis, Hezbollah, the Syrians and the Iraqis have used those signals in the past to try to kill more Jews. So, at any time of the day, you'll be standing or sitting somewhere, and you'll hear some noise far overhead, like fireworks. That's Israel's Iron Dome at work. It was created to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. The Dome is a comfort, but it doesn't always succeed: On the sunny morning of May 4, my partner was heading to Tel Aviv's New Gurion airport — driven by a Yemeni cab driver, no less — when a Houthi ballistic missile penetrated the Iron Dome. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The missile hit just 75 metres from Terminal 3 at the airport, where several dozen Canadian kids had gathered for a flight — I knew this because a terrified Montreal lawyer friend let me know his kid was there. My partner somehow got to the airport. When she arrived, she said workers were sweeping up shrapnel and dirt on the road beside Terminal 3. I asked her what people were doing, and about her flight status. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'They're calm,' she said. 'They're all acting like it's normal. And El Al flights are still going to fly out.' So that's how she got out — delayed, but not grounded. 'A missile hits the airport, everyone is chill. Imagine if that happened in Ottawa or Toronto or Vancouver,' I said to her, from the bomb shelter I was inside, in Jerusalem. 'They'd shut down Canada for a month.' But that's Israel. That's life there. You are always living under a Sword of Damocles, one in the shape of a ballistic missile, crafted by Iran for the Houthis. Or one of the legion of proxies that have sworn to wipe out 'the Zionist entity.' It's normal, almost. Not many people in the West, however, noticed a perceptible change in normal Israeli life happened on Thursday of this week. On Thursday, for the first time in 20 years, the International Atomic Energy Agency censured Iran for refusing to cooperate with its inspectors. Iran promptly announced it was going to build a third uranium enrichment site, and get better centrifuges, so it could get a nuclear bomb faster. Donald Trump's negotiations — wherein he was reportedly getting ready to settle for the same nuclear proliferation deal with Iran that Barack Obama had, and which Trump had torn up — had failed. So Israel had to act, and Trump knew it. And so Israel made her move. What does it mean? It means the world is a safer place, today. The No. 1 sponsor of terrorism has lost much of its ability to drop the ultimate weapon on us. For Israel, it means life goes on. When you are living in the shadow of death, as Israelis do every day, the shadow never completely disappears. Toronto Maple Leafs Sunshine Girls Toronto & GTA Columnists World
