If you met Elise Freezer, you’d want to put her on TV, too.
The seriously adorable and immensely talented 11-year-old figure skater is the star of a SunTrust Bank commercial that will be broadcast to a national audience starting with Friday’s 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies.
In the 60-second spot promoting SunTrust’s “Saving for Your Dreams” campaign on its onUp.com site, which features free budget tools and quizzes, the Colorado Springs athlete is portrayed as a skater employed to pick up flowers and gifts left on the ice for Olympic skaters after their programs. But Elise gets put in the spotlight by “accident” while retrieving a teddy bear. She makes the most of it by dancing and skating with the bear to “What a Feeling,” the theme from “Flashdance” by Irene Cara. The message is, “It takes confidence to dream big.”
Elise said her coaches encouraged her to try out for the commercial.
The bank “wanted someone who was 12 to 16, but they changed it after I auditioned,” said the apple-cheeked strawberry blonde.
Elise got to keep a bear, which she has named Sunny, as well as her handmade costume from the daylong photo shoot at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
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