Max Page, star of VW's "The Force" commercial from 2011.
Max Page, the seven-year-old boy who played a pint-size Darth Vader in the most popular ad shown during the 2011 Super Bowl, is having heart surgery on Thursday to correct a congenital birth defect, according to an article on the Huffington Post. According to his mother, he’s handling the news like a trooper; she reports that he told her, “Mom, I don’t have a choice. I have to go through it. I don’t like it and it’s still scary — but I have to. So I think I might as well go through it with a good attitude.”
Part of his good attitude includes proactively planning activities that he’ll be able to do during his recovery period over the summer, assigning themes, secret codes and rules to each room. “The most favorite is the garage — Explode Zone — science experiments and art projects, the messier the better.”
Sounds like somebody ought to send Max Page a copy of one of the GeekDad books.
We here at GeekDad would like to wish Max a speedy recovery.
Jim MacQuarrie
When he's not arming children for the zombie apocalypse or coaching the USC Trojan Archery team, Jim is writing about "all the stuff that would have gotten you a wedgie in 1976" at AtomicJunkShop.com and serving as the President of CAPS, the Comic Art Professional Society. His kids are all grown up, and his wife is patiently waiting for him to do likewise.
