Glen Powell Recalls Avoiding a ‘Recently Canceled’ Celebrity at a Party

Glen Powell is reflecting on an uncomfortable situation he found himself in at a Los Angeles party.

The actor, 36, recalled an awkward run-in several years ago with an unnamed “recently canceled” celebrity, while on Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast on Thursday, Sept. 25.

“I showed up to the party and there was somebody that had basically been on the ropes in terms of sort of getting cancelled,” Powell began.

Powell shared that the event was “one of those Hollywood parties where there are cameras and press and all that stuff.”

Without naming the “recently canceled” celebrity, the Top Gun: Maverick star revealed that “this person had made a lot of some of my favorite movies.”

“He came up and he said nice to meet you, and I was like, ‘Oh, dude, big fan.’ And then a photographer said, ‘Hey, can we take a picture of the two of you guys?’ And this person was recently cancelled and was, as of late, not good,” Powell said.

“I was a fan of their work but not a fan of their choices, right? So I was just kind of being nice, but then when they want to take a picture with you, I realized very quickly how I was like I don’t know if this is a good idea. He clearly clocked that I was like ‘this is probably not a good idea,'” the actor said.

“This guy, his face is toxic,” Powell went on to say. “You know, like going out into the world, like people are having a visceral reaction to this person in terms of the the bad choices they’ve made.”

He connected the awkward interaction to his character in the upcoming series Chad Powers, a disgraced college football star who returns to the field in disguise and under a new alias. “The character that I play in Chad, it’s like Russ Holiday is a guy that just made a mistake, right? He’s not a bad guy,” Powell said.

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He concluded that some reputations, however, are earned. “Some of these other people that get canceled, they should lie where they’re shot,” Powell said.

Chad Powers is set to premiere on Hulu on Tuesday, Sept. 30.