You Tube sensation and ex-NFL player Isaiah Mustafa talks to the Hollywood Reporter about the stardom of sorts that has come his way since he pitched Old Spice in the year's biggest online marketing coup not perpetrated by Apple. "It's a dream come true," he says. "It was a couple of lucky occurrences that had to happen for me to get the commercial. I missed the first audition but made the second one they scheduled because they hadn't found anyone... I think about it all, and it wows me." He's now been cast in a Jennifer Aniston movie and on an episode of "Chuck." OK, so here's one of his spots.
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Old Spice has been good for Isaiah Mustafa
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