If you’re an Oscar winning black actor but and Hollywood stops calling you, what do you do? You do what many before you did: you go make TV commercials somewhere else. It used to be the Gulf and Japan, but now actors like Gossett Jr. go to places like South Africa. There Gossett Jr stars in ads for Windhoek Lager beer. See above and below.
And here is one more …
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I had never seen this ad. We all at a camping trip, around the fire playing Trivia were thinking of the greats and Lou Gossett, Jr we all agree should and is one of our great leading actors. We all wondered what happened to him. Is he officially retired, enjoying life, or just no good scripts that holds his interest. Please keep making movies, your maturity set great examples of the young new actors of today. Your presence on set says it all. Love u