When Christina Applegate was asked to do M&M’s Super Bowl LIII commercial she jumped at the chance. “You don’t often get asked to do a Super Bowl commercial. It’s that one time of year where everyone really ups the game on the ads,” says the Emmy award-winning actress and comedian. “It’s a special thing to do. So I immediately said ‘yes.’” The 30-second spot which airs during the first commercial break following the kickoff of Sunday’s game on CBS features Applegate in a very relatable situation. In the ad, titled “Bad Passengers,” Applegate who is driving, has to deal with fighting passengers in the back seat who just won’t behave. Her patience wears thin. “I can relate to driving in the car with children in the back who are driving me insane,” shares Applegate, who has an 8-year-old daughter, Sadie. “I used to drive three kids to soccer every Thursday from school. Sometimes they were amazing back there. And sometimes they were driving me completely bonkers, so I get it.” The commercial also marks the first time M&M’s has debuted a new product during a Super Bowl advertisement. The new line of M&M’s Chocolate Bars is now available in five flavors including peanut, milk chocolate, crispy, almond and crispy mint. So does Applegate have a preferred M&M’s color? “I like the green. I don’t know why I have a preference,” she says. “But I would always pick the greens out and not eat the rest.” So how did you keep your sanity when the soccer kids in your back seat went bonkers? I turned the music up in the front part of the car and turned it off back where they were. I also just tried to breathe. Sometimes I would get song requests from them which was pretty funny. They always wanted to listen to the soundtrack from Labyrinth, the David Bowie movie. That would quiet them down. You are starring and executive producing the new Netflix dark comedy Dead To Me. What can you tell us about it? They are still editing. We did 10 episodes. It’s very different tone-wise than anything we have seen. It very dark, emotional, sad and oftentimes funny. [The series was created by Liz Feldman and is executive produced by Feldman, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Jessica Elbaum and Applegate.] Is there much you can tell us about your character? I can’t say much. It’s one of those things where we can’t talk about what happens in episodes because it’s got like cliffhangers. I play a woman named Jen whose husband had been killed in a hit-and-run three months prior to when we meet her. She meets this woman at a grief group, and they’re incredibly different. My character Jen is very angry and broken. And she meets up with this very, positive free spirit named Judy [Linda Cardellini]. They become friends. I can’t say any more about what happens. You have been acting since you were very little, isn’t that right? How did you get your SAG card? It’s something that I should ask my mom. But my SAG card says “member since 1974,” which I always find really hilarious because I was born in 1971. Did you ever not want to perform? There was a moment when I was about 13. I shaved my head and was going through that stage where I just didn’t want to do it anymore. I didn’t want to go to auditions after school all the time. I wanted to be a kid. My mom said “OK, I’ll call and tell your agent you don’t want to do it anymore.” I went upstairs and had a panic attack. I came downstairs and said, “Forget it. I can’t not do this.” That was it. Is there a role you are aching to play at this point? I’m playing the best role ever, which is my kid’s mom. That is what I’m doing right now. When you start living for someone else, every thought is about her. It has changed me as a person. It has changed me as an actress. She is just an inspiration. Is your daughter interested in performing? She goes through moments. She did a musical theater camp over the summer for the first time. They did a production of Annie and she played Ms. Hannigan. She was so good. I was so proud of her, especially since she is a kid who has never done it. Afterward she said “I want to be an actress.” She got the bug. She is very musical like her dad [musician Martyn LeNoble]. She was getting laughs and applause, And I thought, oh boy. Here it starts. Here we go. With all the reboots happening do you envision a Married… with Children one? No. We’re all very busy. And I’m going to be 50 in two years. I don’t think anyone needs to see Kelly Bundy at almost 50. Where do you think Kelly would be at almost 50? Oh gosh. I have a feeling, not in a good place. No one needs to see that.<doc-sep>Moms are basically front seat referees, a role that Christina Applegate nails in this hilarious Super Bowl ad for M&M’s! See the actress scare the spokescandies into behaving in the backseat of the car. Christina Applegate, 47, rose to fame as the rebellious teenager on Married with Children, but the tables have turned! The sitcom queen now plays the role of a frustrated mom in a Super Bowl commercial promoting M&M’s new chocolate bars. In the ad, Christina is driving a rowdy bunch of M&M’s ambassadors who are bickering in the backseat, yelling some of kids’ favorite phrases: “Ow!” and “Cut it out!” Christina then comes in with the question we’ve heard all impatient moms ask: “Ok, do I have to break you guys apart?” Of course, the childish M&M’s don’t listen. Christina finally slams the breaks after one of the candies yells, “Stop touching me!” The blonde beauty gives the rude candies a look we hope to never see again, screaming, “If you don’t stop I will eat all of you alive right now!” Cut to the M&M’s, and they really are stuck together in the same chocolate bar. Clever marketing. “Uhh, I prefer the break us apart option,” the red M&M replies (fun fact: he’s the voice of Fry in Futurama). We’d prefer that option too, red M&M. Don’t worry, Christina only screams at CGI M&M’s! “I would never scream at my child like that, but because it’s M&M’s it’s OK,” the actress, who shares 8-year-old daughter Sadie with husband Martyn LeNoble, told AdAge. Still, she can relate to the struggle of acting as a chauffeur to your kid: “Every day is a challenge in the car.” Pretty funny for Christina’s first Super Bowl ad. She admitted that filming a commercial is “way more intense” than a movie to AdAge, even after starring in movies like the Anchorman series and The Sweetest Thing! To nail the roughly “30 takes” she had to do, Christina had to pull out for a day from her 11-week shoot for Dead to Me, her upcoming Netflix series. And the director of the ad is a big name himself — Craig Gillespie, who brought us I, Tonya! Serious work goes into selling these M&M’s.<doc-sep>Ads that rely on shock humor need to actually be funny and also to make sense. This one falls short of both duties. The dreamy sequence we see involving a guy’s grandpa taking the cover off a sleek new Audi electric vehicle to present it to him is actually -- surprise! -- his pre-death thoughts as he almost chokes on a cashew at his cubicle. But why would grandpa have an E-car? Why is almost dying in the most mundane way funny? You could argue that, between the lines, Audi is saying: Buy this cool new car before it’s too late to enjoy anything. But I’ve gotta believe there are better ways to say that than a beneficent relative fantasy and a nut blocking a windpipe. Also: a fellow working in that particular cubicle farm, from the small-time looks of it, would probably be stretching to get leather in his Camry, never mind a brand new E-Audi. Heck, I’m surprised he was snacking on cashews.<doc-sep>
M&M’S Chocolate Bar Super Bowl Commercial 2019 (featuring Christina Applegate) – ‘Bad Passengers’Christina Applegate deals with unruly backseat passengers on her drive back from the grocery store. 2019-01-30T13:50:11.000Z Christina Applegate has to deal with some unruly passengers in a new ad for M&Ms at the 2019 Super Bowl. The spot, called “Bad Passengers”, shows Applegate driving home from the grocery store. Arguments then erupt from the backseat, which sounds like a bunch of angry children… “Ok, Do I have to break you guys apart?” Applegate turns and asks. Mounting frustration then prompts her to yell, “If you don’t stop I will eat all of you alive right now!” It turns out the M&Ms are embedded into a chocolate bar. These special bars were introduced in 2018. According to Ad Age, this is the first time M&Ms is introducing a new product in a Super Bowl ad. The commercial comes from BBDO New York, and will air during the first commercial break after kickoff. It was directed by Craig Gillepsie, best known for his work on I, Tonya. In an interview with Ad Age, Applegate shares, “I would never scream at my child like that, but because it’s M&M’s it’s OK… Every day is a challenge in the car.” In a separate People interview, the actress discussed how excited she is to be part of the Big Game day. “I’m so unbelievably thrilled… I’ve always wanted to do Super Bowl commercial, there’s something to it. They have these big scopes and storylines that are funny and epic, and people talk about them. When they called me for this I was like ‘absolutely’.” She goes on to say that when she grows frustrated in the car, she has her own unique methods to calm her down. “I turn music on in the front of the car and try to just listen to that instead of their screaming behind me…you can only say ‘please stop that’ so many times and not be listened to, before you go completely bonkers.” As many people know, Applegate started her career early, playing the role of Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married… with Children. She has since appeared in a number of famous films, like Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Vacation, Bad Moms, and Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. In 2004, she earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Friends. Five years later, she also earned a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female TV Star for her work in Samantha Who?.