Source: The Guardian
He was once the world’s most ruthless and notorious oil baron. But now JR Ewing has turned his back on black gold to spend his retirement selling eco-friendly solar panels. Almost two decades after the TV drama “Dallas” came to an end, actor Larry Hagman is reprising his most famous role in an advertisement for a German company. The oil industry, he says in the commercial, became “too dirty,” prompting a search for another money making opportunity. “In the past it was always about the oil. The oil was flowing and so was the money,” he says. “But I’m still in the energy business. There’s always a better alternative,” he adds, gazing up at the roof of his California mansion covered in solar panels and flashing a grin of perfect sparkling teeth. The unbelievable prospect of the head of Ewing Oil turning green would have caused uproar in the TV show’s fictional Cattleman’s Club, where many of JR’s biggest deals were done. Yet in real life, Hagman is a keen advocate of an Earth-friendly lifestyle.
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