It was a Super Bowl spot sensation. The Volkswagon ad featured a mini-Darth Vader testing his skills with "The Force" and failing. Under the mask, though, is quite another force.
"I know! I am a superstar! I am a superstar," said Max Page, the child behind the mask.
Page said he is still too young to watch a Star Wars film, but did research the roll online.
"He's this big black guy fighting Luke Skywalker with a light saber. A red one," Page said.
He is a fighter in his own right. He was born with a congential heart condition and survives with a pace maker. Now, his commercial has gone viral.
His parents are amazed.
"A million, I think the last count was 16.5 million hits on youtube on just one clip," his mother Jennifer Page said. "It's just something that we can't comprehend."
And the surreality continued when he was introduced to movie icon James Earl Jones, the voice of the original Darth Vader. He presented Max with an autographed mask.
"To Max, May the Force be with you. From, me," the autograph said.
"It was cool. I never got to meet a real actor. And I never got to meet Darth Vader actually," Max said.
"It is so glorious and we're so blessed that he's had this opportunity because it means the world to us and it means the world to him because it's always about what you can do," father Buck Page said.
Now, a child born with limitations has a future that lies in the stars.
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