Max Page, the child actor feature a child actor who portrayed Darth Vader in a Super Bowl ad for the 2012 Volkswagen Passat has ties to Montana. (AP Photo/Volkswagen of America)

Max Page, the 7-year-old who won acclaim playing a mini-Darth Vader last year in Volkswagen’s Super Bowl commercial, is summoning some super power of his own to undergo open heart surgery in Los Angeles on Thursday. A child actor since age 3, Max is the son of 1990 Whitefish High School graduate Jennifer Alderson Page and the grandson of Jim and Connie Alderson, who live in Whitefish six months out of the year. Max was born with a congenital heart defect and the surgery will replace his pulmonary valve and fix a hole in his heart. “He’s got a great attitude; he’s scared but brave,” his grandfather Jim Alderson said/Lynnette Hintze, Daily Inter Lake. More here.

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