"Chad Powers" creators Glen Powell and Michael Waldron explain football reality and hard knocks in their new Hulu comedy series.
Glen Powell accepted elite mentoring – and some Manning-brothers abuse – doing double quarterback duty in the Hulu sports comedy series "Chad Powers" (first episodes now streaming).
Powell, 36, stars as both cocky college star Russ Holliday, who flames out on a nationally televised game, and as Holliday's goofy alter ego Chad Powers, who reboots the toxic career eight years later disguised with a wig and facial prosthetics.
Two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning, who created the Chad Powers character for a 2022 "Eli's Places" sketch, and ex-NFL QB brother Peyton Manning, added quarterback training to their executive producing duties for the six-part series.
But that expertise came with frequent mocking about Powell's football-throwing style seen in the famed dogfight football game in "Top Gun: Maverick."
"Eli wanted to make sure Glen looked like an elite college, pro-caliber quarterback," says Michael Waldron, who created "Chad Powers" with Powell. "And that meant busting Glen about his football throwing in 'Top Gun' a lot, probably to create a sense of insecurity."
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