It will take a minute to get Michael B. Jordan’s scanned blue eyes out of our minds after seeing that Amazon Alexa Super Bowl commercial on the big screen, but we also can’t get over the hilarious brown beauty that starred alongside him on the ad spot.
Briana Price was all of us as she pressed her face against a glass window, fantasizing about Jordan’s “beautiful vessel” incorporating the home device. Unfortunately, only she was able to sit with the actor in a bathtub surrounded by candles and witness his sculpted pecs up close. And to think that she almost missed it by going to medical school.
“I started to study to be a doctor”, Price tells ESSENCE about his professional career. “It didn’t work. My parents are still excited about it. ”
The Pasadena, California native started dancing while studying at Columbia University in New York and decided to pursue a career professionally after scheduling a show.
“Nobody told me that you could make money doing art,” she says, noting that her parents are academics.
After working as a professional dancer in Los Angeles for a few years, an injury disrupted Price’s dance dreams. That was when she started acting, something she says she always wanted to follow.
The Super Bowl commercial is probably not the first time you’ve seen Price’s face. She toured with Nicki Minaj, performed in Joy, starred in Shameless, The prom, and 13 reasons whyand, more recently, got a role in the movie Hallmark Christmas tree lane.
“In fact, quarantine was probably the best time of my career,” she says. “I had a small catapult in 2020, 2021.”
Type MBJ and Amazon. Price tells us that she auditioned for the role like any other party, but after she got the job, no one told her who she was going to lie in a bubble bath despite her many questions.
“I always had the feeling that it would be him. I had a feeling it would be him at the audition, actually. I don’t know how, I don’t know, but I always had a feeling. ”
It wasn’t until she filmed the hilarious scene looking out the window at Jordan’s tour bus, however, that Price’s suspicions were confirmed. As for working with the Black Panther star, she says: “It was great! It was actually quite easy. I was not nervous at all. It was like working with any other actor I’ve ever worked with. He’s super down to earth, super cold. I felt like I was talking to one of my friends when I was talking to him. It was very funny. “
Another interesting fact behind the scenes: Price’s mother is responsible for the beautiful braided bun she used in the commercial.
“The director had a very specific vision and sent reference photos and it was all cornrow,” she says, alluding to the fact that she did not want to have the same fate as many other black actresses and end up with a hairdresser who could not comb properly. the hair. “My mom does my hair since I was a little girl, so she knows my hair. Just to be on the safe side, I wanted to make sure you were beautiful. “
The Super Bowl will not be the last time you see Price. She is recording a Netflix show next week and, although she cannot share details of other projects that are underway, she says, “I am excited about some potential things to happen in the future.”