There are Glen Powells all over the place for these with the eyes to see — not less than in response to the lookalike contest held earlier at the moment within the Prime Gun: Maverick star’s hometown of Austin, Texas.
In line with Fox 7 Austin, tons of of individuals gathered at Auditorium Shores in City Lake Park on Sunday, together with Powell’s mom and aunt, who helped choose the winner from a pool of a number of contestants (that includes Powell iterations from Hit Man to Twisters, in addition to Austin-founded chain Torchy’s Tacos’ pink satan mascot and a canine that resembled Powell’s famed rescue pooch Brisket).
Whereas Powell didn’t make an look in particular person, on account of filming Edgar Wright’s forthcoming remake of The Operating Man in England, he did FaceTime into the occasion and ship a message to organizers promising one thing cash can’t purchase: a cameo in his subsequent film.
The minute-and-a-half-long clip opens with Powell joking in regards to the contest being for actor Justin Hartley’s lookalikes and that he has assembled attendees to drag off a heist: “And we don’t want a masks as a result of all of us have the identical face: It’s the right crime. They will’t get all of us as a result of we’re one — a legal Glen-terprise. Additionally, I do know it’s November, but when nobody is shirtless for no purpose, then this complete factor is a sham and, clearly, nobody is dedicated to the bit.”
The Set it Up star continued, explaining what the Powells in attendance needed to lose — or achieve: “I do know there may be some money and a hat at stake right here, however I simply wished to say that the winner of at the moment’s contest will get a private prize from me. Now, you could know that my dad and mom make a cameo in each film I make, however at the moment, the winner of the Glen Powell lookalike contest wins their dad and mom or any member of the family of their selection a cameo in my subsequent film. I’m utterly severe. This can be a cash-value prize of $6 billion.”
Powell concluded: “Take a pic collectively for me, take pleasure in my favourite metropolis on the earth, hold Austin bizarre, hook ’em Horns and see ya round, each time I look within the mirror.”
Per the Austin American-Statesman, the occasion was organized by Kate Carpenter and received by Max Braunstein, who obtained a cowboy hat, free Torchy’s queso for a 12 months, a financial prize and the aforementioned cameo.
The viral phenomenon of the superstar lookalike contest first started with an innocuous competitors for Timothée Chalamet, held in New York Metropolis on the finish of October, which drew tons of of followers, resulted within the arrest of a pair doppelgängers and featured a shock look from the Dune star himself. Since then, iterations of the lookalike contest have spanned cities together with Los Angeles, San Francisco and worldwide locales like Dublin and London, beckoning twins for the likes of Harry Types, Paul Mescal, Dev Patel, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist (as Patrick and Artwork from Challengers particularly) and Rachel Sennott, in addition to different figures like Peso Pluma, Shohei Ohtani and even Shrek.