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- Glen Powell tells PEOPLE successful an exclusive question and reply that, contempt back-to-back large profession moves complete nan past fewer years, he is not tired
- "I'm happy. I'm successful nan zone," nan character says
- Powell's latest roles see 1 successful The Running Man, an adjustment of Stephen King's caller of nan aforesaid name, arsenic good arsenic passion task Chad Powers
Glen Powell is not 1 to slow down.
Despite back-to-back large profession moves complete nan past fewer years, nan actor, 36, tells PEOPLE successful an exclusive question and reply that he is not tired and continues to bask being booked and busy.
"As agelong arsenic I'm getting to make cool things pinch group I emotion and collaborate pinch group I really americium excited to squad up with, and arsenic agelong arsenic I tin support doing that and enactment successful nan game, and bring my family on for nan ride, I'm ace happy. I'm good," Powell says.
"Everybody keeps asking me, like, 'Are you tired correct now?' And I'm like, 'No, I'm not, ' " continues nan prima — who has collaborated pinch Raising Cane's and Hulu to beforehand his caller series, Chad Powers.
Adds Powell: "I'm happy. I'm successful nan zone, and everybody is filling maine up pinch much life and much knowledge, and I'm getting to bring really cool things to audiences astir nan world. There's conscionable thing better. It's awesome."
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Powell, raised in Austin, Texas, began his acting profession pinch mini roles successful movie and television, including 2003's Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
In 2014, he took a domiciled successful The Expendables 3, and a twelvemonth later, he landed a lead domiciled successful Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens. Powell's prima powerfulness kept rising, and he took connected much awesome roles — including playing astronaut John Glenn in 2016's Hidden Figures and starring successful 2018's Set It Up.
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Elsewhere successful 2018, Powell was formed in Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to 1986's Top Gun, and nan portion was considered a "breakout role" for nan prima erstwhile nan task was released successful 2022.
Since then, Powell has been progressive pinch various awesome movies, including Anyone but You and Twisters, plus Hit Man — which earned nan character a information for Best Actor successful a Motion Picture – Musical aliases Comedy astatine nan Golden Globes.
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Powell's upcoming projects see The Running Man, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel of nan aforesaid name, arsenic good arsenic Chad Powers, successful which he stars and besides serves arsenic co-creator, writer and executive producer.
The show follows a erstwhile hotshot assemblage backmost hopeless for a 2nd chance aft he blew up his profession pinch misbehavior. Adopting a caller identity, Chad Powers, he attempts to revive his shot profession by joining a struggling team.
Chad Powers, a passion task for Powell, revolves astir football, truthful nan prima teamed up pinch Raising Cane's to big a tailgate-themed pop-up instrumentality screening successful nan parking batch of nan accelerated nutrient chain's Torrence, Calif., location.
"People that emotion assemblage shot and emotion nan tailgate quality of things, they will enslaved complete what a awesome sports communicative is aliases what a awesome underdog communicative is — and each nan things that are thematically rich | successful Raising Cane's are benignant of nan aforesaid things successful Chad Powers," Powell tells PEOPLE. "It's conscionable a location run. Well, I conjecture not a location run. A touchdown. But whatever."
Chad Powers will commencement streaming connected Hulu connected Tuesday, Sept. 30.
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