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Once GEICO’s ‘Caveman’ Woodend’s brand-new function is as USI English teacher

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November 15, 2022
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University of Southern Indiana English professor McManus Woodend was the 'Caveman' in GEICO Insurance commercials for 10 years.

EVANSVILLE– In a method, McManus Woodend had the very best of both worlds.

When he ended up being the “Caveman” in GEICO Insurance commercials, he was immediately identifiable.When he removed his prosthetic makeup, he was essentially incognito.

In truth, a few of his buddies didn’t think he truly was the GEICO “Caveman” Saying something like that remained in line with his funny bone, they reasoned. Then he revealed them visual evidence.

Woodend has actually appeared in 6 function movies, however is most popular for his function as the “caveman.” He’s now in his very first term as an English trainer at the University of Southern Indiana.

GEICO’s caveman needed to hold up against blizzard, avalanche throughout shooting

He made the function by vanquishing roughly 1,000 other stars who auditioned. Woodend was operating at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida as a Film Industry Outreach Liaison when he got the “caveman” function and took a trip to Homer, Alaska for a shoot in March 2009.

Commercials were shot with a team in Homer, Alaska as part of a project with the Discovery Channel and its popular program “The Deadliest Catch” However, a one-week shoot seemed like 2 months– he needed to hold up against a blizzard and an avalanche.

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Woodend transferred to Chicago for a couple of years however was seldom in the Windy City due to the fact that he was taking a trip all over the location. He stated the facial prostate improvement from “regular me” to “extremely ego me” took 3 hours and an hour and a half to take it off. When he remained in outfit it appeared as if he might get away with anything.

“Then I was much like everybody else which was for the much better,” Woodend stated.

McManus Woodend

His first-ever public look as the GEICO “Caveman” was at the D.C. Food and Wine Festival and possibly his most remarkable. He had a great talk with American chef, cookbook author and television character Paula Deen.

Putting on a Southern accent imitating Deen, Woodend stated she informed him, “You’re so fortunate. You get to place on your makeup and everyone likes you. You get to do things and have a good time. But then you remove your makeup.”

She took a look at him with her “saucery blue eyes” and stated, “I do not get to remove my makeup.”

McManus Woodend had a 10-year run as GEICO caveman

Woodend’s 10-year run as the GEICO “Caveman” ended at the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea.

His newest journey has actually taken him to USI. He and his better half, Kelli Lynn, a playwright, had actually been residing in Sarasota,Florida A Henderson, Kentucky native, Kelli Lynn wished to be closer to her household. They have a young boy.

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“Up here, we can see household every weekend or every other weekend, particularly for her, and I’m fine with that,” he stated.

Woodend came over the mentor occupation truthfully– both of his moms and dads were instructors for 30 to 40 years. Although there’s a performative element to mentor, he’s not pontificating onstage from a big lecture hall. His classes vary from 20 to 22 trainees, simply the method he likes it.

“It’s absolutely in my blood,” stated Woodend, dealing with his PhD in literacy and musical and visual idea. “I have a great deal of buddies in the mentor occupation.”

Woodend gains from David Lynch

Woodend made his bachelor’s degree in the Film Production and Entertainment Business program from the previously mentionedFull Sail University He ended up being a filmmaking graduate of the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts, a part of the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa.

Living with his better half in Brooklyn, Woodend jumped at the possibility to go to Lynch’s school in Iowa: from high-rise buildings to cornstalks.

“In southeastern Iowa, there was a great deal of corn and not a great deal of individuals,” he stated. “It was culture shock, however I invited it. I began concentrating on my movie school profession.”

Meeting Lynch through a Skype call, Woodend was later part of a group of 20 trainees who were welcomed to his studio in Los Angeles.

University of Southern Indiana English professor McManus Woodend was the 'Caveman' in GEICO Insurance commercials for 10 years.

“He has such a renowned personality,” Woodend stated. “He sat and responded to concerns in a thoughtful way. Speaking with him was quite remarkable. He was friendly and appealing with the world. At the very same time, he has a streak, a bit of bad kid in him, in a great way, obviously.”

One of Woodend’s youth heroes, Lynch co-created and directed the television program “Twin Peaks,” which ended up being a cult feeling in the early 1990s. He likewise directed films such as “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Lost Highway” therefore a lot more.

Despite his moms and dads’ objections, Woodend was bound and identified to see the initial “Twin Peaks” So he got innovative, utilizing bunny ears to tune his three-inch black and white Sony Watchman to the program. He put the covers over his head in his bed, so his moms and dads in theory would not understand what he was doing.

Humble starts

Woodend constantly had the acting bug. Living in Mount Clemens, Michigan, at age 10, he experimented with in a Nickelodeon skill search, however wasn’t chosen. He was undeterred.

Already taking part in youth neighborhood theater, Woodend “simply wished to head out and have a good time and be a kid” throughout the Nickelodeon audition. His household moved a lot when he was young.

” I invested most of my life a Florida kid, however not as a Florida guy,” he stated.

Only 42, Woodend considers himself semi-retired from acting. But he was simply been approached about appearing at the Raptor Con Pop Culture andGeek Convention Dec 10-11 at the National Guard Armory, where photos would be taken and he would sign autographs.

“I’m most likely going to do it,” Woodend stated.

Contact Gordon Engelhardt through e-mail at Gordon.engelhardt@courierpress.com or on Twitter @EngGordon

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