An Albert Lea native was an actor in a commercial during Sunday’s Super Bowl game.

Jake Christianson, 32, played a security guard in a Hyundai commercial. During the advertisement, the car company set up a fake security checkpoint where customers — who by purchasing cars donated to cancer patients — were told they failed the checkpoint.

As a security guard, Christianson helped bring the customers into a security room, where a television message thanked them for donating to cancer patients.

“It was a pretty cool experience,” he said.

Christianson estimated actors practiced the skit 40 to 50 times.

Christianson, who has experience in television news, said being a part of the commercial was beyond anything he had experienced and credited his co-actors and producers for helping make the commercial.

“It was a really great experience, and I really enjoyed it,” he said.

The commercial was filmed in the Minneapolis Convention Center and filming took place the weekend before the Super Bowl.

A 2004 Albert Lea High School graduate, Christianson works in the licensing area of Ameriprise Financial in Minneapolis. He is the son of Kim and Tim Christianson. He graduated from Brown College with a focus in news photography. Following college, he worked at KAAL before joining the military for eight years as a mental health sergeant.

Though Jake Christianson said acting is not a career he is actively pursuing, he called participating in the commercial an “amazing, positive experience.”