"Glen Powell had a secret. The actor teamed up with screenwriter-producer Michael Waldron to adapt Eli Manning's football-world-famous "Chad Powers" prankin which the retired quarterback put on a disguise for a Penn State football tryoutinto a TV show. The Waldron-Powell duo were hardly the first team to attempt to morph a sketch into a hit TV series, but things were actually... going... pretty well? They landed on a brilliant premise."
"Powell hid Chad's drawl from the crew. As Waldron remembers, Powell finally busted out his voice at a table reading with a whole lot of 20th Century Fox and Hulu executives in the room. It's a delicious cocktail of Bobby Boucher and Forrest Gump, imbued with maximum weirdo energy from Powell. "It's so funny because it really feels like something Russ is making up on the fly," Waldron tells me."
Glen Powell teamed with screenwriter-producer Michael Waldron to adapt Eli Manning's 'Chad Powers' prank into a television series for Hulu. The series follows Russ Holliday, a blue-chip college quarterback who crashes during a live game and disguises himself as country-bumpkin Chad Powers to attempt a comeback. Powell and Waldron developed Chad's physical look and kept his voice secret from the crew until a table reading impressed executives. The show channels comedic influences such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Bobby Boucher, and Forrest Gump while combining costume-based transformation with sports heroism. Waldron's prior work includes Loki, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Heels.
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