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Almost 30 years aft its release, the stamp Clueless has connected nine remains! That’s wherefore Rakuten requested the assistance of Elisa Donovan and Alicia Silverstone to reprise their characters for an epic Super Bowl commercial! “This was specified a large opportunity, and it was truthful amusive and cute and conscionable really, truly clever,” Elisa, who played mean miss Amber successful the cult classical film, explained connected the HollywoodLife Podcast. “Rakuten is conscionable the cleanable matrimony for Clueless. It’s a buying app wherever you person wealth backmost erstwhile you bargain things. I mean, Amber would beryllium each implicit this, each implicit it!”
Alicia Silverstone & Elisa Donovan successful the ‘Not So Totally Clueless’ Rakuten SB Commercial. (Courtesy of Rakuten)In the ad, Alicia’s Cher and Elisa’s Amber recreate the epic statement scene, arguing whether “fiscally liable shopping” is an oxymoron. Cher, of course, wins the warfare of words by highlighting the easiness of earning Cash Back erstwhile buying with Rakuten, and Amber famously tosses up a ‘W’ with her fingers, erstwhile she’s not fixed clip for a rebuttal. “It was pleasantly casual returning to the character!” Elisa admitted. “I deliberation Alicia and I some felt that way. It was conscionable thing that is truthful ingrained successful me, that character.”
The iconic redhead added,”I did person to spell backmost and look astatine clips from that country to marque definite that I was not inventing successful my caput what I remembered, though!” She recalled however the acceptable astir identically resembled the Clueless classroom acceptable from the ’95 film, and Rakuten besides brought connected the film’s primitively cinematographer Bill Pope to shoot. “That was a really, other peculiar portion that helium was a portion of it,” Elisa gushed, calling him being similar a “father figure” to her erstwhile they changeable the archetypal movie.
Elisa Donovan arsenic Amber successful ‘Clueless.’ (Paramount/Everett Collection)This mini Clueless reunion comes conscionable a fewer months earlier Elisa, Alicia and Stacey Dash volition articulation forces for a panel astatine ’90s CON successful March. “There’s specified a emotion for and a nostalgia for the ’90s close now, and the 3 of america person surely not done thing similar this unneurotic earlier so, it’s going to beryllium truthful fun,” Elisa said connected the podcast, earlier praising the longevity and variability of the movie. “It’s conscionable an incredibly good made film. The publication is truthful superb and truthful funny, but truthful good-spirited and smart. Every country of, of the movie came unneurotic truthful beautifully from the costumes to the acceptable platform to bash everything and the cast.”
She continued, “I deliberation erstwhile you bash thing that touches into this universality of being a teen and tapping into it successful a mode that is without harsh judgments, it’s truly conscionable bringing to the array precisely what it’s like. There’s thing I deliberation that everyone could link to. I deliberation that those things conscionable instrumentality with you.”
Elisa Donovan. (Storm Santos)A :30 spot of the Rakuten Clueless commercialized volition play during the large crippled connected February 12, truthful support an oculus retired for the advertisement starring Elisa and Alicia! Plus, from February 10th to February 20th, Christian Siriano’s yellowish plaid acceptable look helium re-designed from Rakuten’s Big Game spot, on with his 3 Clueless-inspired runway, looks volition beryllium portion of the “Christian Siriano x Rakuten Giveaway” disposable exclusively for Rakuten members. Rakuten volition beryllium giving distant 1 of the 4 iconic looks to 4 fortunate winners, via a giveaway hosted connected the Rakuten site.
Listen to our afloat interrogation with Elisa Donovan connected the HollywoodLife Podcast!
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