A whiskey ad
is making everyone cry – and for good reason!
Earlier this
month, Spanish company J&B Scotch Whiskey released their holiday
commercial and it's a surprisingly moving storyline about the acceptance of a
transgender family member.
The
three-minute commercial opens with a grandfather stealing his wife's lipstick
to secretly apply it on himself in the bathroom. He slowly begins experimenting
with makeup, buying eye shadow at the grocery store and taking brow tips from
bus billboards until he's happy with his own look. He continues to hide it from
his family.
When his
extended family arrives on a holiday, we meet Álvaro, the man's visibly
uncomfortable 26-year-old grandchild. The grandfather pulls them into the
bathroom and applies all of the makeup tricks he's learned on Álvaro – and they
look absolutely beautiful as the two gaze into the mirror together. The
grandfather then reintroduces their grandchild to the family as Ana. In the
end, the family toasts over some whiskey. "Magic is not only at
Christmas," the screen reads in Spanish. "It is also in us."
As of this
writing, the commercial has over 2 million views on YouTube. The official
description shares the hope from J&B Spain that the commercial can
help "us reflect, so that on these dates there can always be room at the
table for acceptance, respect and, above all, celebration." It's also gone
viral on Twitter and TikTok.
The love and
acceptance shown for Ana is enough to make any LGBTQ+ person shed a
tear. "I lost it when I saw this," one comment reads. "It
completely wrecked me. I want a family like that."
Ella Di Amore,
the transgender actor who played Ana, spoke
about the importance of the commercial:
“It is a story
with which I feel quite identified. In my day to day, I do not try to be a
reference for anything or anyone, but I do everything in my power to defend
LGTBIQ+ rights and I know that through Ana’s character I can help many people
by making visible a reality that is quite common.”
Watch the
moving commercial below.
SOURCE: OUT DOT COM
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