What looks like a Red Lobster commercial featuring stars from "The Gilded Age" has gone viral, but not everything is quite as it seems. On May 20, X user Tim Popp (@popphits) on the platform that appears to be a '90s Red Lobster commercial starring actors Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon. The two also lead as George and Bertha Russell in "The Gilded Age.
" “Excuse me but you need to see this Red Lobster commercial featuring Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector,” Popp on X. “They had chemistry even then. Forget the Gilded Age.
This was their Crustacean Age.” In the video, pulled from , Spector plays a charming waiter against Coon’s bespectacled customer with a frenetic enthusiasm. “What can I get you?” Spector asks in the clip.
“30 shrimp, please,” Coon answers. “Great choice!” Spector replies. While there’s something else at play with the clip, it fooled a lot of folks, with many surprised at the strange coincidence: Did two actors who star in a television show where they both have such a humble beginning to their on-screen relationship? “I’m flipping out!!! This is surreal!!!!” one fan.
“Girl excuse me WHAT, is this AI?” another shocked X user. Another , “Gilded Lobster 🦞.” “Bertha needs to serve cheddar bay biscuits at their next glittering soirée,” one “Gilded Age” fan.
However, one of the video’s stars stepped in to clear things up, at least a little. “It’s an avant garde short film called 'Great Choice' by director Robin Co.
