A pioneer veteran Asian American actor along with a young new upstart were featured in two separate commercials during Sundays’ Super Bowl.
12-year old Neel Sethi who will play Mowgli in Disney’s remake of The Jungle Book this spring made a big splash before an audience of well over 100 million television viewers in the United States.
The Indian American boy is seen in the trailer running for his life from wild animals.
Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson lend their voices to the animal characters.
78-year-old George Takei made a quick appearance in a Taco Bell commercial. You may have caught George’s patented laugh.
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