Glen Powell is opening up about cancel culture and how he had an awkward run-in with a “toxic” celebrity who was recently canceled.
The 36-year-old actor stars in the new Hulu comedy series Chad Powers, which is about a recently canceled athlete.
Glen appeared on his friend Jake Shane‘s Therapuss podcast this week and opened up about his run-in with the celeb.
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“I was at a party and there was somebody that had basically been on the ropes in terms of sort of getting canceled… It was one of those Hollywood parties where it’s like there are cameras and press and all that stuff,” Glen said.
He continued, “And this person had made a lot of, some of my favorite movies, and I was like, ‘oh, like, this is great.’ He came up and he said, ‘nice to meet you’ so I was like, ‘oh, big fan!’ and then a photographer said, ‘hey, can we take a picture of the two of you guys?’”
“And this person was recently canceled. And it was not good. I was a fan of their work, but not a fan of their choices so I was just kind of being nice. But then when they want to take a picture with you, I realized very quickly how like, I was like, ‘oh, I don’t know if it’s a good idea.’ He clearly clocked that I was like, ‘oh, this is probably not a good idea,’” Glen said. “And I realized this guy, his face is toxic, you know, like going out to the world. Like people are having a visceral reaction to this person in terms of the bad choices they’ve made.”
Glen compared his character Chad Powers to the cancel culture in today’s world.
“And, you know, the character that I play in Chad, it’s like Russ Holliday is a guy that just made a mistake, right? He’s not a bad guy. Some of these other people that get canceled… they should lie where they’re shot. But like with Russ, he made a mistake. He acted you know poorly about it and the world kind of didn’t forgive him and he couldn’t forgive himself. And what I found to be really interesting is that in today’s day and age,” Glen said.
Glen recently broke his silence on his very-public breakup.