Now See This: Bold & Beautiful’s John McCook Reveals a Part of His Past That Even *We* Didn’t Know About
- John McCook has been portraying Eric on The Bold and the Beautiful for 37 years, with a career in television and film dating back to the mid-sixties.
Thirty seven years is a long time to stick it out at a job, but as The Bold and the Beautiful celebrates its anniversary, that's exactly how long John McCook has been at it as Forrester patriarch Eric! But by the time the actor joined CBS' fledgling soap in 1987, he was already a vet of television and film for over 20 years.
The veteran actor had a slew of television and film appearances, dating back to the mid-sixties, including his five-year stint as The Young and the Restless ' Lance. Heck, there was a time you were probably seeing him on pretty much every channel out there — especially when he did a few commercials!
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How do we know about those commercials? No, our memories aren't that good, but the internet is a wonderful place and McCook himself dug up an ad from over four decades ago. Give or take. Because when you go back that far, even Eric's portrayer has a tough time recalling everything he did!
"Honestly I can barely remember doing this one," McCook admitted on Instagram as he shared a Ford Mercury Lincoln commercial featuring his very suave self! "I think around 1983."
Check out the ad below and see if his charm would be enough to get you in one of those fine vehicles, now with "low 11.9 percent financing!"
Sure, this may have been before jumping into the freewheeling fast-paced world of fashion, but as fan Remi Bouyer put it in the comments, this commercial was pure "Eric before he founded Forrester Creations."
And if the man could sell those cars at those rates, then we can see how Forrester took off as one of the world's premier (fictional) fashion houses out there! But more importantly, it's clear why a man with McCook's charisma and charm has helped make Bold & Beautiful one of the world's biggest soap operas for 37 years!
Though the commercial isn't quite from before his days as a star, check out our photo gallery below of soap actors from before they hit it big !
