Nick Jonas Talks Starring in a Chuck E. Cheese Commercial
Nick Jonas Recalls How He Won the Ultimate Prize While Filming a Chuck E. Cheese Commercial
Before he was a teenage heartthrob in the Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas was out there living the dream as the star of a Chuck E. Cheese commercial. During a recent appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show," the "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" actor played a game with Clarkson where he fact-checked internet rumours about himself. In between confirming that he's not the best whistler and he does prefer eating icing over cake, Jonas also shared that when he was a child actor he starred in a Chuck E. Cheese commercial.
"When I was a kid doing acting, Broadway, and music, I would go on auditions all the time," he said. "There were two big jobs you wanted to get as a child actor in the northeast, one was the Hess truck holiday commercials ... I never got it. But I did get the other, I would say second-most desirable job for a child ... which was Chuck E. Cheese."
Not only did Jonas star in a commercial for the famed pizza chain, he also pulled off a pretty cool trick during filming. "I got to do this cool thing where I'm sitting on the Skee-Ball thing, and I threw [a ball] behind my back, and it went into the thing," he explained. "And we did the first shot, and I actually got it in, because they were going to CGI it, and I got a high five from the director and from Chuck E. Cheese himself."
The glory of getting the Skee-Ball through the ring on his first toss was nothing compared to the reward. Jonas shared with Clarkson that "they gave me a thousand tokens." Just imagine how many games a kid could play with a thousand tokens, or the prizes they could claim. While the singer didn't disclose how he spent his earnings it was clear the chat show host was impressed.
When Jonas tried to figure out what the tokens would be equivalent to moneywise, Clarkson said what the audience was likely thinking when she noted it would have been like "winning the lottery as a child." Check out Jonas's trick shot for yourself in the commercial below.
