Like most brands that are around for multiple generations, male grooming product company Old Spice needed a younger, hipper refresh of its identity in the 2010s. As part of that aim, the company enlisted former NFL player and up-and-coming actor Isaiah Mustafa to star in its "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" ad campaign. The campaign was extremely popular, not only helping the sales of Old Spice but also catapulting Mustafa — who'd appear in various commercials for Old Spice through 2015– to a higher level of celebrity.
Once a popular ad campaign runs its course, people are left asking what happened to the actors from those commercials. As mentioned, Mustafa had already began dabbling in acting prior to his Old Spice gig, and he doubled down on that career once he was done pitching deod