When I tell my editor about the conversation I've just had with Jonathan Goldsmith, Dos Equis pitchman and "The Most Interesting Man In The World"(TMIMITW), she shakes her head and says, "Unbelievable."
I've told her that during the course of the interview, Willy, Goldsmith's 110-pound Anatolian shepherd, caught a squirrel and placed it on the pile of wood his septuagenarian master chopped and stacked behind his home at the foot of a mountain in rural Vermont. This turn of events is not exactly unbelievable -- Goldsmith's love of dogs is as well-documented as canines' predilection for squirrels -- but it does strain credulity: Goldsmith's job is to embody a lived-in masculinity so hyperbolic that his off-screen persona should disappoint. His private manliness is shocking precisely because he is publicly a Madison Avenue creation.
Talking to Goldsmith is like receiving unsolicited advice on insurance from a passing duck.
Here are a few facts about the man behind TMIMITW, the well-traveled actor who plays the world's best-traveled pitchman: He has "weathered a few gales while sailing in the Caribbean;" he has gotten "a bit lost at sea;" he has "saved a hiker's life during a blizzard on Mount Whitney;" he enjoys "building stone walls in my spare time;" he has "supported the same charity for decades;" he wishes he'd "killed Muammar Ghadafi or Idi Amin maybe."
Read the Complete Interview here via the Huff
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