{"id":341322,"date":"2017-05-17T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T09:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/17\/steve-jobs-jeff-goldblum-voice-of-apple\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T09:11:40","slug":"steve-jobs-once-asked-jeff-goldblum-to-be-the-voice-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/steve-jobs-once-asked-jeff-goldblum-to-be-the-voice-of-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs Once Asked Jeff Goldblum to Be &#8216;the Voice of Apple&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs once tried to convince Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum to become &#8220;the voice of Apple,&#8221; it emerged yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Goldblum disclosed his contact with the late Apple co-founder during an interview on the <em>Today Show<\/em> in Australia, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/jeff-goldblum-voice-of-apple-steve-jobs\/#ftag=CAD590a51e\">CNET<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/o-JEFF-GOLDBLUM-facebook-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-565664\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Steve Jobs called me up a few decades ago to be the voice of Apple,&#8221; said Goldblum. &#8220;That was early on, and I did not know it was Steve Jobs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The star of movies like <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> and <em>The Fly<\/em> offered no further details on the timing of the phone conversation with Jobs, but Goldblum did appear in a short series of &#8220;Think Different&#8221; Apple ads in the late 90s.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5-zmX8AlxiA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>CNET<\/em> suggested Jobs may have seen a role for Goldblum as the voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/siri\/\">Siri<\/a>, but Apple didn&#8217;t purchase the company responsible for the virtual assistant until 2010, making the suggestion seem unlikely. <\/p>\n<p>Goldblum is currently in Australia to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menulog.com.au\">Menulog<\/a>, a new food ordering app in the same vein as Seamless and DoorDash. <\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/steve-jobs\/\">Steve Jobs<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/steve-jobs-jeff-goldblum-voice-of-apple.2046036\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=vJJrTRPY9K8:-Xi271CFk70:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=vJJrTRPY9K8:-Xi271CFk70:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/vJJrTRPY9K8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-341322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}