Jason interviewed David Bernal, aka Elsewhere, the popping dancer who recreated Gene Kelly's Singin' in The Rain dance scene for a recent British VW GTi commercial: "...they had us watch the original Singing in the Rain scene so many times that I started unconsciously moving a bit like Gene Kelly. The director at one point even told me that I was moving too much like Gene and I needed to move more like me."
Golf GTi Commercial and Elsewhere [kottke.org]
previously: Definition of "to be Jar-Jarred"
VW commercial shot on the same soundstage as Oliver!
Musical, Re-animated, with Xanadu references
