I’m so blessed and honored and humbled that they even gave me that opportunity to be around those guys and see how they work, how they think.' It feels like I can hang! I’m just excited to be able to do that with them early on. It was just cool to be able to feel like I was with these legends of their craft that will be known forever. 'For the cut moments, I’m like giddy as a fan but then I want to lock in and focus. 'I want to respect them and honor their time,' Miles says of working with these notable men. I was definitely looking for the original 'Jake.' It was my wife that saw your callback sheet and said 'That’s your Jake' immediately.'įast forward more than a year later, Miles has regularly filmed commercials alongside sports superstars like Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers and now Drake, who Miles says is one of his all-time favorite artists. The CMO of State Farm Rand, he’s a great dude but he let me know I was not looking for you. 'In the focus groups, I always tested as number one except for maybe one. According to Miles, the audition process was narrowed down to about ten people, where focus groups would then watch the auditions and callbacks and vote on their favorite candidate.
