If you’re watching a Catalan TV channel any time soon, you might see a commercial for MediaMarkt, Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics. In this ad, you might see a quirky guy trying to hypnotize the woman that works at the store and convince her to sell him a huge flat screen TV for a very cheep price. The voice you hear might just be mine.

The ad was originally filmed in Spanish with a foreign actor. Some German guy, or something. So if you see this ad in Spanish, you’ll hear his voice. But when it came time to dub the ad into Catalan, they wanted to maintain the character’s “foreignness”, so instead of hiring a Catalan actor to record his lines, they hired me. They actually told me that my Catalan accent was too good and that I should play up the foreigner angle more. That was awesome.

The day I went to the studio to record my lines, Jordi Brau was there to read the narration. In case you don’t know, Jordi Brau is one of the most incredible voice actors in Spain. He’s the guy that dubs Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, Kenneth Branagh, and Robin Williams, amongst many others. I had fun making faces at him through the recording booth window while the clients argued amongst themselves over whether it was an LCD screen or a plasma screen. That was awesome.

If I ever find a copy of the commercial, I’ll post it. It’ not much though. It only took me 10 minutes to record. But it paid my rent for the month. That was awesome.