On being the spokesperson of the "Make 7UP Yours" commercials: I walked
in thinking, "I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to
go back to making commercials?" I said, if I do that, I want it to be
funny. Quite honestly, I didn't think the deal was going to make,
because I wanted part of the creative control. I was impressed that
they were making an offer to a non-athlete young black male to be a
spokesperson for two and a half years. To their credit, they said,
absolutely yes, they never questioned anything I wanted to do. It was a
blessed experience for me. (PopMatters.com, 2000)
