The star of a much-criticized Peloton holiday ad told NBC that she was surprised at the sudden amount of criticism weeks after it first aired.
Amid the uproar, Ruiz appeared in an ad Friday for actor Ryan Reynolds' Aviation Gin, which seemed to mock the Peloton ad.
In the "TODAY" interview, Ruiz said she initially told her agent she didn't want to appear in the gin ad because she didn't want to appear to be making fun of the Peloton ad. "I was like, 'Oh, I don't think so. I think it's going to look like I'm making fun of it,'" she said. "I had just an amazing experience when I shot the Peloton commercial. I was like, 'I don't want them to think that I'm going to make fun of them or say anything mean.' But they assured me it was an idea that was just taking air out of the situation.
"We love acknowledging and playing with the cultural landscape. We thought this was a great opportunity to do something that ... you see how everything is sort of divisive these days," Reynolds said. "We had this thought that we could do this ad without contributing to that divide, without really vilifying anybody.""I hope people can remember that I'm not actually the Peloton lady and let me work other jobs," she said.
Correction: An earlier version misstated the day of the NBC interview and of iSpot.tv's data. It was Thursday.
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