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For reasons that are unclear, Glen Powell<\/a> is being touted as Hollywood\u2019s next great movie star. You may have noticed him as an uber-confident pilot in Top Gun: Maverick<\/em><\/a>, or leading the cast in last year\u2019s remake of Twisters<\/em><\/a>, or starring in generic Netflix<\/a> fare Hit Man<\/em><\/a> and Anyone But You<\/em>. He\u2019s a decent actor with a strong jawline but he doesn\u2019t set the screen alight, and he can\u2019t save the feeble sports comedy Chad Powers.<\/em><\/p>\n American football doesn\u2019t tend to set British pulses racing, being what is essentially rugby with shoulder pads. Chad Powers <\/em>started life as an ESPN skit starring real-life NFL player Eli Manning, and is now a full-blown series airing in the UK on Disney+.<\/p>\n Powell plays Russ Holliday, an American football player whose career is a mess of suspensions and tabloid headlines, and that\u2019s before he punches the dad of a wheelchair-bound cancer patient on live television. We catch up with him eight years later, when he loses his last remaining job offer and is reduced to working for his dad.<\/p>\n But wait! His dad is an Oscar-nominated make-up guy, who sends Holliday off one morning to deliver some prosthetic masks and wigs to a film set. Sitting in the car, he watches a video in which the head coach of the South Georgia Catfish announces open try-outs for a new quarterback. Moments later, his gaze alights on a conveniently placed poster for Mrs Doubtfire<\/em>. With the kind of logic that only exists in comedy shows<\/a>, Holliday decides to disguise himself, Mrs Doubtfire-style, and apply for the team under the name Chad Powers.<\/p>\n