Glen Powell recently appeared on Jake Shane’s “Therapuss” podcast and detailed an awkward encounter he had at a Hollywood party when he was asked to take a photo with a canceled actor. Powell, who is currently promoting his Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers” and Paramount’s upcoming action movie “The Running Man,” did not name the celebrity.
“I was at a party and there was somebody [there] that had basically been on the ropes in terms of sort of getting canceled,” Powell explained. “It was one of those Hollywood parties where there’s like cameras and press and all that stuff. This person had made some of my favorite movies and I was like, ‘Oh, this is great.’ He came up and he said, ‘Nice to meet you.’ I was like, ‘Oh, dude. Such a big fan.’ And then a photographer said, ‘Hey, can we take a picture of you guys.’”
“This person was recently canceled and it was not good,” Powell continued. “I was a fan of their work, but not a fan of their choices. So I was kind of just being nice. But then, when they wanted to take a picture with you, I realized very quickly — I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if this is a good idea.’ He clearly clocked that I was like, ‘Oh, this is probably not a good idea.’ And I realized that this guy, his face is toxic. Going out into the world, people are having a visceral reaction to this person in terms of the bad choice they’ve made.”
The story led Powell to comment more generally on cancel culture in Hollywood. He even drew a connection to “Chad Powers,” which stars Powell as a quarterback who gets canceled and then finds redemption by disguising himself on a new team as a different person.
“Russ Holiday is just a guy who made a mistake, he’s not a bad guy,” Powell said of his character. “Some of these other people who get canceled, they should lie where they’re shot… In today’s day and age, cancel culture is just a thing where the world doesn’t let you forget your mistakes. With phones, with TikTok, with Instagram, so many people make mistakes and the world doesn’t let you forget. And I found it to be interesting how people react to those moments. Do they double down, do they take accountability, do they believe in conspiracy theories? Just having a character learning to say ‘I’m sorry’ is a really beautiful thing.”
“Chad Powers” debuts Sept. 30 on Hulu. Watch Powell’s full “Therapuss” interview in the video below.
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