Ladner's Keegan Turbitt got some airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast Sunday.
Turbitt starred in one of the two winning commercials in Doritos' Crash the Super Bowl contest.
"I think it's a really good career starter," said the 11-year-old. "I was really happy when I saw it on. Everybody in the room was cheering."
Turbitt, along with his family, watched the big game at a cast and crew party in Maple Ridge hosted by the parents of the creators of the When Pigs Fly commercial, brothers Nelson and Graham Talbot.
The brothers got to attend the Super Bowl in Arizona.
"Everyone was shouting, including me. We were all really, really happy," said Turbitt. "Probably the neighbours heard that, too."
He has had an agent for over a year and has done a few other acting jobs so far. He's been busy lately with auditions.
The winning entries out of the 10 finalists in the contest were revealed during the Super Bowl broadcast.
In the commercial, Turbitt plays a kid who asks an adult for some Doritos but is told he can have some only when pigs fly. He gets a pig flying using a rocket, gets the chips in the end and shares some with
the animal.
"This was the first time we had worked with Keegan and he did an amazing job," Nelson Talbot previously told the Optimist.
The brothers won $50,000 for their commercial. It marked the first time a Canadian entry had won in the nine years the contest has been held.
There were nearly 4,900 submissions from 29 countries.
The other winning entry, which garnered the most votes online, earned a $1 million grand prize and a "dream job" at Universal Pictures.
The New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in the big game.
