Lexington native has a cameo in ‘Barbie’ movie. Did you spot it?
If you have seen the summer blockbuster “Barbie,” you might have noticed a cameo by a former South Carolina resident.
Luke Lorick, a Lexington High and University of South Carolina alumnus who now lives in Loveland, Colorado, appears on the big screen in a three-second clip of a video he posted to YouTube two years ago, according to the Loveland Reporter-Herald.
Lorick told the local paper he initially didn’t believe the email he received from Warner Brothers asking if they could use a clip of his video in the movie. “I was like ‘sure you do,’” Lorick told the Reporter-Herald.
The video is posted to Lorick’s channel Tailgate Challenge, where he posts product reviews, and features Lorick reviewing the Newair Mini Fridge in the bed of his pickup truck. He and others open beers from the fridge while dressed for some reason as a dinosaur, a viking and Duffman, the mascot of Homer Simpson’s favorite beer on “The Simpsons.”
In the “Barbie” movie, Lorick briefly appears in a montage after Margot Robbie’s Barbie and Ryan Gosling’s Ken have crossed over from Barbieland to the real world, and Ken encounters “traditional masculinity” for the first time, according to the Lexington County Chronicle.
Lorick has promoted his cameo on his social media accounts, telling the Chronicle that, “’Hey, I was in the ‘Barbie’ movie’ is a door for more conversation.”
Lorick — whose day job is claims team manager for State Farm Insurance, according to his LinkedIn page — told his hometown paper he was paid an undisclosed flat sum for the use of his video in the film, which has since gone on to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.
His brush with Hollywood may surpass Lorick’s previous claim to fame, when he set the world record for longest backward cornhole toss in 2022, according to the Reporter-Herald.
