On the heels of his Gatorade spot “30 Years” winning the Best Direction honor in the 90 seconds and under category at the 2022 Ciclope Latin America Awards–and getting shortlisted at Ciclope Berlin–Sergio Granados has joined SKUNK for U.S. representation. The lauded Gatorade piece was produced by Granados’ Mexico City-based production company, Lovster. Prior to connecting with SKUNK, Granados had most recently been repped in the U.S. market by Baby Lion.
Granados and SKUNK are now reunited after first working together on a Visa project for the World Cup in 2014. The campaign had SKUNK coordinating 32 films in 32 World Cup countries, the film for Mexico being directed by Granados. Fast forward to today and SKUNK was drawn to Granados on the strength of his work for such brands as Pepsi, Johnnie Walker, Chevrolet, Nissan and of course, Gatorade. Curiously Granados' first project in his reunion with SKUNK is another World Cup film, this time for Modelo. The spot, which just broke, combines emotional performances and camera work to express how soccer fans experience satisfaction and sacrifice with the ups and downs of their country’s team.
SKUNK owner Matt Factor said, “After getting excited by Sergio’s film for Gatorade, it was great to be reacquainted and jump right into a Modelo project for the World Cup. It was a pleasure seeing him collaborate with the folks from Grey NY on an ambitious shoot in Sergio’s home town of Mexico City–a destination we regularly travel to for U.S. shoots. We are already prepping another job and look forward to a fruitful journey together.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More