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Should you happen upon 7-UP spokesperson Orlando Jones, you might want to shout something a little more clever than "Make 7-UP yours!" As the performer explains, he's tired of being heckled with the very soft drink catchphrase that made him famous. "I get 'Make 7-UP yours' on a daily basis," he tells TV Guide Online. "In fact, usually they don't even bother with the 'Make 7,' I just get 'UP yours!' Now I get, 'I saw you in a movie, UP yours!' " Jones, whose 7-UP spots have him doing everything from standing in the middle of a freeway next to a vending machine to accidentally knocking over thousands of soda cans in a supermarket, admits that the current commercial actors strike against advertisers is completely justified. In fact, he says he won't be appearing in any new ads until his "brothers have been compensated. Attica! Attica! "[But] the strike isn't about jackasses like me," continues Jones, who takes part in a TV Guide Online
Should you happen upon 7-UP spokesperson Orlando Jones, you might want to shout something a little more clever than "Make 7-UP yours!" As the performer explains, he's tired of being heckled with the very soft drink catchphrase that made him famous.
"I get 'Make 7-UP yours' on a daily basis," he tells TV Guide Online. "In fact, usually they don't even bother with the 'Make 7,' I just get 'UP yours!' Now I get, 'I saw you in a movie, UP yours!' "
Jones, whose 7-UP spots have him doing everything from standing in the middle of a freeway next to a vending machine to accidentally knocking over thousands of soda cans in a supermarket, admits that the current commercial actors strike against advertisers is completely justified. In fact, he says he won't be appearing in any new ads until his "brothers have been compensated. Attica! Attica!
"[But] the strike isn't about jackasses like me," continues Jones, who takes part in a TV Guide Online chat tomorrow at 8 pm/ET. "It's about guys who do Petco commercials on cable and got $800 and can't get another job. It's about them. I'd never sell them down the river."
With Jones's acting career taking off, he likely won't have much time to moonlight as a pitchman. This Friday, his new film, The Replacements, opens nationwide and could very well catapult him to a whole new level of stardom. But the actor, who prior to landing his breakthrough role in 1999's Liberty Heights lived in a studio apartment with four other people, doesn't care if his love life benefits from all the attention: He's happy being single.
"I'm trying to stay out of trouble," he says. "[Besides], it's hard to maintain a relationship because I'm always gone." And what if women only want him for free 7-UP? "That would be a bad mistake," he says, "because I ain't got none!"