The Offspring had a huge hit with 1998’s Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), due in no small part to the heavy rotation that its video got on MTV. In the promo clip, we witness the “White Guy” as he bumbles his way through his Pretty Fly existence, driving round town in his lowrider car, trying to look cool in front of everyone but failing, interrupting a break-dance so he can show off his terrible moves and more. The part was played so well by 19-year-old actor Guy Cohen that the band took Cohen on tour with them just so he could come on and dance during the song.
Six years after that, Offspring frontman Dexter Holland sat down for a catch-up with Cohen in New York to find out what the actor had been up to in the intervening years. “I’ve done a couple of commercials, I’ve got a national one running right now, it’s a PSA to graduate high school, I play a drop out,” says Cohen, sounding very much like he might have been typecast by his Pretty Fly… turn. “It’s hard, there’s a lot of competition out there and there’s a lot of goofy-looking skinny white guys,” joked the actor.
