The commercial featuring the Oscar winner and ‘Sex Education’ star will air in the UK
Robert De Niro and Asa Butterfield in a new commercial for Uber One.
Robert De Niro bonds with Asa Butterfield in a new commercial for Uber One.
The clip begins with the Oscar winner Mad bull legend, 80, sits in the director’s chair and eats takeout on set in the bathtub Sexual education star Butterfield, 26, tentatively approaches him and awkwardly asks, “So, are you eating food?”
De Niro replies: “Am I eating food? Yes, I eat food. Are you eating food?”
“I love food. I had food for breakfast,” Butterfield tells him.
“Oh, good for you,” says De Niro.
Asa Butterfield and Robert De Niro get closer in a new commercial for Uber One.
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After an awkward pause, Butterfield asks him, “Do you go places?” De Niro once again answers in the affirmative.
Butterfield says he likes to visit places, too: “I love places. I’m going—I went to this place, all right, a little while ago.”
“What place is that? Here?” – asks De Niro. Butterfield answers: “Yes. I was there then, and I’m here now.”
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“You’ve been there and come here? Woof.” De Niro says. “Look at this. We both eat food and we both go places.”
Their mutual interests established, the music rises as Butterfield says in voiceover, “That’s when I knew I was going to be best friends with Robert De Niro.”
The ad shows the pair doing various activities together, including riding in the backseat of a car, where Butterfield shows him all about Uber One, a subscription service that offers benefits such as discounts on Uber rides and Uber Eats food delivery.
De Niro and Butterfield then take their Uber shopping to a boutique where they try on clothes. Afterwards, they get smoothies and play on the swings in the park before eating more takeout at the apartment and playing table tennis.
As the Uber driver watches from the rearview mirror, Butterfield shows De Niro how to use photo filters, adding cat ears to one of their selfies. “We can be cats. I mean, not really, but…” says Butterfield.
“But why would you want to be a cat? You’re human,” De Niro deadpanned. “Cats should want to be people.”
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Robert De Niro and Asa Butterfield drive in a new commercial for Uber One.
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To end their day together, De Niro and Butterfield were taken to an observation deck where they watched fireworks together.
Maya Gallego Spiers, UKI Marketing Manager at Uber and Uber Eats, said in a press release; “Our new campaign aims to let people know that Uber One membership is for people who eat food and go places, which is almost everyone.”
“With Uber One, members can save money on Uber and Uber Eats, and it’s already enjoyed by over a million people in the UK,” Spiers said. “For our first Uber One campaign, we were lucky enough to work with the incredibly brilliant Robert De Niro and Asa Butterfield, who brought the campaign beautifully to life on screen.”
Butterfield can be seen in the fourth and final season Sexual educationwhich debuted its latest batch of episodes on Netflix in September.
De Niro is currently starring in a Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moonin theaters now.
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