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Chris Meloni Used to Star in Corny Commercials

When Chris Meloni moved to Manhattan to study acting with Sanford Meisner, he took odd jobs wherever he could find them, even landing some commercials. “Some of it was totally cheesy,” Meloni told an Irish newspaper. “I did this commercial in Germany for a washing machine repair guy. When the housewife takes the clothes out of the machine she goes: ‘Aii, Schmutzraender!’ [Oh no, stains!] And I look at her and repeat: ‘Aii, Schmutzraender!’ I went around Hamburg, trying to pick up chicks with this one lame phrase. Needless to say, I never got laid in Hamburg.”

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