{"id":2075634,"date":"2025-10-07T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2075634"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:40:20","slug":"watch-glen-powell-and-eli-manning-have-a-chad-powers-face-off-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-glen-powell-and-eli-manning-have-a-chad-powers-face-off-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Glen Powell and Eli Manning have a Chad Powers face-off (exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sorry <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/eli-manning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eli Manning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eli Manning<\/a>, but Hollywood isn&#8217;t big enough for <em>two<\/em> Chad Powers \u2014 and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/glen-powell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Glen Powell;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Glen Powell<\/a> isn&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> has an exclusive first look at Powell&#8217;s guest appearance on <em>Eli&#8217;s Places<\/em>, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/entity\/espn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN<\/a> series that served as the inspiration for the star&#8217;s new Hulu comedy, <em>Chad Powers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For three seasons, <em>Eli&#8217;s Places<\/em> has followed Manning as he travels around the country visiting college football programs. In season one of the show, the former NFL quarterback <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lLhsjH3IBPc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:went undercover as a guy named &quot;Chad Powers&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">went undercover as a guy named &#8220;Chad Powers&#8221;<\/a> and showed up at walk-on tryouts for Penn State&#8217;s football program. His tryout didn&#8217;t go great \u2014\u00a0but the bit did spawn an entirely new series starring Powell as a disgraced former college football star who disguises himself with prosthetics and joins the South Georgia Catfish football team.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Disney\/Daniel Delgado Jr.<\/p>\n<p> Glen Powell in &#8216;Chad Powers&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Wednesday&#8217;s episode of <em>Eli&#8217;s Places<\/em>, Manning learns that the Chad Powers character is getting his own show \u2014 and he immediately (and incorrectly) assumes that he&#8217;ll be playing the starring role. Manning shows up on set in character as Chad Powers, only to discover that <em>another<\/em> Chad Powers \u2014 a.k.a. <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> star Powell \u2014 cast himself in the lead role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I created the character!&#8221; Manning protests. &#8220;You can&#8217;t just remove the talent \u2014\u00a0when&#8217;s that ever worked?&#8221; Powell points out that many famous characters \u2014 including James Bond and Batman \u2014 weren&#8217;t played on-screen by their creators, but Manning still doesn&#8217;t get it. &#8220;Ok, you&#8217;re Roger Moore to my Sean Connery,&#8221; he says. Offended, Powell snaps, &#8220;You take that back!&#8221; Watch the full clip above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Making <em>Chad Powers <\/em>was &#8220;the most fun I&#8217;ve ever had doing anything,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/chad-powers-glen-powell-preview-exclusive-photos-11799276\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Powell told EW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Powell told EW<\/a>. In addition to making a football comedy, the actor says he and co-creator Michael Waldron wanted to explore &#8220;the nature of cancel culture, the nature of what it is like to be sort of tossed out by society, to have a special gift and to no longer be relevant to society, to feel more comfortable wearing a mask than to actually have your own face,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He called the resulting show &#8220;incredibly heartfelt and incredibly layered and nuanced and very present to everything that&#8217;s going on in the world, and I think something that a lot of people would resonate with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New episodes of <em>Eli&#8217;s Places<\/em> drop every Wednesday on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/chad-powers-glen-powell-meets-eli-manning-exclusive-11825775\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Eli Manning, but Hollywood isn&#8217;t big enough for two Chad Powers \u2014 and Glen Powell isn&#8217;t going anywhere. Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look at Powell&#8217;s guest appearance on Eli&#8217;s Places, the ESPN series that served as the inspiration for the star&#8217;s new Hulu comedy, Chad Powers. For three seasons, Eli&#8217;s Places has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2075635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[350683,350682,310317],"class_list":["post-2075634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chad-powers","tag-eli-manning","tag-glen-powell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Watch-Glen-Powell-and-Eli-Manning-have-a-Chad-Powers.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075636,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075634\/revisions\/2075636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2075635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}