The Most Interesting Man In The World Is Actually … Pretty Interesting

You know Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man In The World,” right? Turns out, the real guy is actually pretty interesting himself.

One could say that the Most Interesting Man could take a few cues from Jonathan Goldsmith, the guy who plays him.

The 75-year-old actor is the subject of a wide-ranging interview with Esquire, in which he talks about his fame, but more importantly, the man behind the Double-X. In the piece, he talks about awkward bathroom time, trying to heal the blind, and even bequeaths his title to none other than Pope Francis.

And then, of course, there was that time he saved a girl’s life.

“When I was 18, I started out at the Fresh Air Fund for kids in New York City, and it provided an opportunity for kids with disabilities to do all kinds of activities. One of the things we dealt with were quite a lot of epileptic kids, and when you have to watch 100 kids playing in a pool, thrashing around, it takes a great deal of concentration to determine a child that’s having a grand mal fit or a kid that’s just playing.”

“Years later, in Malibu, I watched a little girl play with all the kids, and something caught my eye. I just remember: This kid is going to die. She’s drowning. But because I had been trained when I was 18 as a counselor, twenty years before the incident, I knew. I just instinctively reacted.”

But wait, there’s more.

“At that same camp, we took kids on an overnight camping trip. It sounded like a hardware store walking down the railroad tracks, all these braces. We had kids that had multiple dystrophy and epileptics and sickle cell anemics and amputees, crutches. And these kids were having a ball.”

“And all of the sudden, I had this one kid, little bastard [laughs] would only take his epileptic medicine with apple sauce. Well, we didn’t have apple sauce, so he wouldn’t take his [laughs] f–kin’ medicine. And sure enough, there’s Nathan screaming at the sky, and he drops like a stone. And he was a serious epileptic. So we had to carry him back on the railroad tracks, and it was tough because they’re spaced so I couldn’t get a direct step, and my toe would hit the top of the railroad tie, my instep on the bottom. And to this day, I sometimes have to wear a night brace when I sleep, with ice and all the rest of it.”

The Most Interesting Man In The World, everyone.

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