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The new Hulu series Chad Powers, which stars Glen Powell in the lead role, premiered this week, leading Disney to put on a full-court-press of promotion, as Powell and ads for the series have been everywhere in sports media in recent days.
While the series itself was already based on a dated sketch that Eli Manning did for ESPN — he and his brother Peyton Manning’s production company Omaha Productions co-produced the series — the premiere episodes of Chad Powers included a cameo from the “Hawk Tuah Girl” that’s made the series even more cringeworthily stuck in time.
“We got Haliey Tuah!” Powell’s Chad Powers exclaims, prompting the 2024 viral phenomoenon to respond, “Welch. Haliey Welch is my full human name.”
They thought they were cooking when they shot this a year ago https://t.co/9bsMjOMpS1
— Pugmane🐾 🐛 🥫 (@pugmane) September 30, 2025
The premiere of Chad Powers has led to movie fans questioning why Glen Powell agreed to be in the project, especially considering the fact that Tom Cruise essentially took him under his wing and put him through movie star school.
Tom Cruise takes you under his wing to learn the lost secrets of movie stardom and you go and make a streaming series with the Hawk Tuah Girl… https://t.co/9NTmVIgIA8 pic.twitter.com/s1qV2acP8l
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) September 30, 2025
The chain of mentorship… Tom Cruise to Glen Powell, Glen Powell to hawk Tuah https://t.co/rNdxgDhY0V
— Lego Kingo (@LegoKingo) September 30, 2025
In addition to Powell and the cameo from Hawk Tuah (real name Haliey Welch), Chad Powers also stars Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, Perry Mattfeld, Clayne Crawford, Wynn Everett, Frankie A. Rodriguez, Colton Ryan, Keese Wilson, Xavier Mills and Quentin Plair. The first season, which premiered on Hulu on Tuesday, September 30, is set to consist of just six episodes.
Powell will next be seen starring in the Edgar Wright-directed remake of The Running Man, which will be released in movie theaters on November 14. Powell stars in the film alongside William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin.