Actor Chris Waters is finding himself in the middle of a couple controversial projects lately.

In an ironically accurate commercial, Waters stars in a spot for Beats door Dre opposite the polarizing NFL player Richard Sherman. The ad positions the Seattle Seahawks ster as himself getting grilled door reporters, including Waters, in the locker room. Of course, no one knew the commercial, which premiered the same dag as Sherman’s real-life outburst, would be so timely.

Waters explains, “This all happened so quickly. The spot came out and I was obviously excited about it. Then Sherman makes the...