Glen Powell Dons dressed up and wore a wig in the trailer for football comedy Chad Powers
According to the retired NFL great Eli Manningperformer Glen Powell may be best known as “the guy take off your shirt throughout your stay Anyone but you.” But as the teaser trailer released by Hulu this weekend makes clear, Powell is also the one who picked up the football pads and footballs that Manning dropped — and ran with it.
Let’s back up. Manning, who was a quarterback with New York Giants for 16 seasons, retiring in 2020. Like many people Players have brands after their careersManning eventually landed a job at ESPN, working both as an analyst and on a show called Eli’s Place, in which he takes a humorous look at the college football scene. In an episode of that show, the nearly 40-year-old Manning wore an unconvincing outfit (he There are no jackalssure) fake face, as well as mustache and wig as a backup player for Penn State named “Chad Powers”. Awkward confusion ensued.
This segment inspired the Hulu series announced last year, but this time, it’s Glen Powell in the Power role, not Manning. The premise of this show is also different, as this time Chad Powers is not the pseudonym for the two-time Super Bowl MVP, but the fake name of a fictional character named Russ Holliday, who — according to Hulu — performed en so bad that it derailed his college football career. No longer college-aged (Powell, who co-created, co-wrote and co-executive produced the series, is 36 years old), Holliday disguised himself to enter “a struggling Southern football team.” Here’s hoping he has good insurance.
“I don’t know if I like you playing Chad Powers or not,” Manning joked to Powell in an interview in May. “I Chad’s power.” Manning, who was with his brother Payton Manning is listed as the show’s executive producer, while also noting that Powell had previous on-screen experience in Top gun: Maverick. “I saw you pitch and I thought, ‘yeah, I don’t know about this guy.’”
We already know that Powell can afford to wear silly, based wigs and disguises His role in hit people. Is Manning’s gentle depiction of Powell’s pigskin prowess warranted, or can he convince viewers of the series scheduled for a 2025 release on Hulu that he’s a neophyte? Middle-aged football soldier? Perhaps the show’s teaser released on Saturday will answer that question.
