[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for Chad Powers.]
Abstract
- Within the Hulu comedy sequence, Glen Powell’s Russ Holliday reinvents himself as Chad Powers with prosthetics, a wig, and a Southern act to reclaim soccer fame.
- Danny, the glittery Catfish mascot, is aware of Chad’s secret and turns into his pal and confidante.
- Tricia is a rich, formidable booster with an impeccable wardrobe, however who should even have cracks beneath her armor.
In Hulu’s half-hour comedy sequence Chad Powers, unhealthy boy Russ Holliday (Glen Powell) made an unforgivable mistake that ended his soccer profession. Quick-forward eight years to the quarterback deciding to placed on prosthetics, a wig, enamel, and a Southern accent to reclaim his dream as Chad Powers. Sustaining a brand new id amongst his coaches and South Georgia Catfish teammates, Chad not solely begins to win them over, however he really evokes them to work tougher and play higher. On the identical time, the sparkly Catfish workforce mascot Danny (Frankie A. Rodriguez) is the one one in on Chad’s true id from the start, turning into surprising buddies as he helps Russ with make-up and sustain the façade. After which, there’s Tricia (Wynn Everett) the formidable head of the boosters who acts like she owns the workforce however has no concept what’s actually happening with its star participant.
Throughout this interview with Collider, co-stars Rodriguez and Everett mentioned why they needed to be part of this sequence, Everett’s inspiration for Tricia, whether or not Danny and Tricia could possibly be buddies, wanting to seek out the cracks in Tricia’s armor, Rodriguez’s love/hate relationship with the Catfish mascot costume, Tricia’s impeccable wardrobe, Danny’s musical quantity, the Danny-Russ friendship, and what it was prefer to see Powell in full Chad Powers mode.
Wynn Everett Drew From Her Personal Life within the South to Play Tricia in ‘Chad Powers’
“That is the place I used to be born and raised, it is my area, and it is what I really like.”
Collider: When this sequence got here your manner, what side of it most spoke to you? Are you a fan of sports activities tales? Are you a fan of underdog tales? Was your character simply too scrumptious to go up?
WYNN EVERETT: For me, all of these issues. I’m the most important fan of something that takes place within the South. That’s the place I used to be born and raised, it’s my area, and it’s what I really like. I really like tales set within the South. In order that, in itself, was fascinating to me. After which, I went to a Southern college, so I knew the world of SEC soccer. And with this lady, I pulled from all of the totally different sturdy Southern ladies that raised me and that I do know to make Tricia. All of it was only a pleasure.
FRANKIE A. RODRIGUEZ: For me, it was simply how absurd the present was and desirous to see the place they had been going to take it. After studying the primary episode, I used to be like, “That is wonderful. I need to be on this.”
It’s probably the most heartfelt present I’ve ever seen with that many references to fisting.
EVERETT: Oh, my gosh! That’s wonderful!
RODRIGUEZ: We’ll be the primary.
EVERETT: I actually informed (co-creator) Michael Waldron, “You’ve acquired to take that out.” And he was like, “No, I’m not taking it out.”
What do you assume your characters consider one another? I really feel like they’d make nice buddies. Do you assume they’d make nice buddies?
EVERETT: Oh, 100%.
RODRIGUEZ: I’d like to see it. I feel there could be a rivalry although, in some bizarre manner, as a result of they’re each after energy and the highlight. I feel they’d get alongside in that side, however that might even be what makes them enemies.
EVERETT: I feel we’d be greatest buddies and in addition enemies. Greatest buddies, however we additionally get on one another’s nerves so badly. However we do love one another.
Wynn Everett Would Like to Dig Into the Cracks That Tricia Is Hiding in ‘Chad Powers’
“Why has she gripped so laborious onto successful this nationwide championship?”
After I requested Michael Waldron which character he could be most enthusiastic about having extra time to discover deeper in Season 2, he stated that whereas he loves all of the characters, he’d like to dig deeper into Tricia. How do you are feeling about that? What would you prefer to find out about Tricia and see her do?
EVERETT: Tricia, in Season 1, is simply decided and useless set and is aware of what she needs and is attempting to battle to get it. In Season 2, I’d like to see if there are ever any cracks that present what’s happening beneath that. Why has she gripped so laborious onto successful this nationwide championship? What’s that about? I’ve my concepts about what it means. I simply love her.
We study that Tricia is somebody who has and makes use of her daddy’s cash. How does she really feel about that? Does she care how different individuals really feel about that? Does it matter to her? Does she simply totally embrace her sources?
EVERETT: She totally embraces my sources completely. I really feel like there’s no disgrace. She is aware of she’s wealthy. She’s like, “I do know that I convey some huge cash to the college, and I ought to have a say in issues.” Whenever you give that a lot cash, she’s like, “I purchased the Jumbotron and all of the issues.” I undoubtedly assume she doesn’t shrink back and isn’t embarrassed by it, in any respect.
Tricia additionally has a fully impeccable wardrobe.
EVERETT: My concepts once I went in had been so totally different. I assumed she was going to be extra like Lilly Pulitzer, and so they went extra with fits. Not Hillary Clinton fits, however a bit bit extra subtle enterprise fits. That shocked me, however I liked it.
What do you assume her closet appears like? Do you assume it’s massively big?
EVERETT: As Wynn, I’m the worst particular person at branding and garments. I don’t know manufacturers of garments. I don’t know what I’m sporting. However I feel Tricia is aware of her manufacturers, and is aware of what appears greatest, and it’s very costly, and her closet is stuffed.
Frankie A. Rodriguez Had a Love/Hate Relationship With His ‘Chad Powers’ Mascot Costume
“It simply appears so absurd and humorous on display.”
Frankie, we see Danny within the Whiskers mascot costume a good bit. What did you consider the costume? What was it prefer to put on that and to bop in it? Had been you unhappy to depart it behind, or had been you glad to take a break from it?
RODRIGUEZ: It was a love/hate relationship, for certain. The costume itself, I adore it. As soon as they added all of the glitter fins and stuff, I used to be like, “This, I’m into.” It simply appears so absurd and humorous on display. Any time I needed to get into it, I used to be like, “It’s for comedy. It’s for artwork.” I used to be at all times right down to do it. To maneuver in it was actually fascinating since you assume you’re transferring and it’s studying on digicam, however then you definitely watch it again and also you notice that you should do it larger. That a part of it was a studying curve. However I don’t assume it will get higher than a twerking catfish. I’ve peaked.
May you see out of it?
RODRIGUEZ: You possibly can undoubtedly see. You possibly can undoubtedly type of hear, It’s totally functioning. I requested for little slits, in order that I may take my arms out and textual content. It was totally functioning.
I really like an incredible break-into-song second for a personality. How did you are feeling about singing? Did you choose the track? Is it a track you had ever sung earlier than?
RODRIGUEZ: It’s a track that has been in my mind since I used to be about 5 years outdated. I used to be undoubtedly so sport. I saved joking with the writers who had been round us rather a lot, “What if there’s a musical quantity?” After which, once I really acquired to that episode, I used to be like, “Oh, okay, there’s going to be a musical quantity.”
EVERETT: It’s my favourite scene of the entire sequence.
RODRIGUEZ: It’s absurd.
EVERETT: When he broke into track, my theater nerd coronary heart was so excited.
Frankie, no matter floor relationship Russ and Danny have in the beginning of the season develops and deepens into an actual friendship by the top of the season. What did you most get pleasure from about their dynamic? How was it to seek out that with Glen Powell?
RODRIGUEZ: It was lots of enjoyable. Each of those characters are in all probability individuals that might by no means work together in actual life as a result of they’re simply in several worlds. To get to play that with somebody like Glen, who was so open to concepts and who needed to speak all the things via and who needed to know what you’re pondering, it was one thing that we constructed as we had been going, in order that was actually enjoyable. There’s additionally this student-teacher factor happening, after which by the fourth episode, it actually does flip as a result of they are surely on one another’s aspect by that time. That was actually enjoyable to play.
Danny goes with Russ to see his father, and so they discover him in a prosthetic fats go well with. What was it prefer to see Toby Huss in all of that? What was it prefer to see Glen Powell in his?
RODRIGUEZ: Initially, it’s stunning as a result of it does look so actual. They do such an excellent job with mixing all of the seams and all the things. It’s humorous. There are some takes the place you simply must snigger since you’re like, “That is absurd.”
‘Chad Powers’ Co-Stars Wynn Everett and Frankie A. Rodriguez Had been Shocked at How Good Glen Powell’s Prosthetics Regarded
“He seemed 100% like Chad.”
What had been your reactions the primary time you noticed Glen Powell present up on set with all of the prosthetics that flip him into Chad Powers?
EVERETT: We had a desk learn, so we had heard a model, but it surely wasn’t the true finish model that he selected. For me, it was episode two that I noticed Chad for the primary time, and when the voice got here out, I used to be like, “Uh oh, I’m not going to have the ability to make it via this scene.” It was so humorous. The prosthetic workforce was so unbelievable. You would not see the distinction. He seemed 100% like Chad. It was wonderful what they had been capable of do.
RODRIGUEZ: It’s stunning. You’re like, “How do they do this?” I used to be additionally like, “Are you okay?” We shot rather a lot exterior and I used to be sweating, however you don’t sweat via prosthetics. It’s loopy to see. However it appears so good. I couldn’t consider how good it seemed.
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August 30, 2025
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Hulu
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Tony Yacenda
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Perry Mattfeld
Russ Holliday / Chad Powers
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