When Brock Pierce sat in President Bill Clinton’s Oval Office chair during a visit to the White House in 1996, the young actor — then starring in a comedy about playing the president's son — didn’t realize what the moment would mean to him about a quarter century later.
“To this day, it just brings me incredible joy,” he says. “It’s not an everyday thing.”
Pierce, improbably, now says he wants it to be.
The former child star-turned-cryptocurrency entrepreneur announced his last-minute bid on July 4 — the same day as a much larger celebrity, Kanye West, also tossed his hat into the ring to challenge President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 race.
In a wide-ranging interview about what he has been up to since his mid-90s acting career, Pierce tells PEOPLE that going back to the White House has been on his mind for a long time.
“I’ve been thinking about it my whole life," says Pierce, 39. "It’s always felt like a calling."
That goal, he says, has traveled with him through a shifting post-acting career of business ventures, political encounters, lavish experiences around the world and a wild wedding at Burning Man.
But all of that started when Pierce — a 3-year-old hockey-loving boy from Minnesota — began taking on small roles in commercials and later landed a supporting role in The Mighty Ducks series, leading to a 13-year career in Hollywood.
