Recently, Glen Powell's wacky photoshoot for GQ, in which he sported massive, obviously fake muscles, received enormous attention. As he told the magazine in their October "State of the American Male" issue, his early years in the business consisted of navigating several casting types, which at that time favored the intense "brooder" of the Robert Pattinson Twilight variety. Stereotyped instead for years as the jock, with the new Hulu series Chad Powers, Powell seems to have comfortably settled into a different role, that of the "a little more silly" leading man of the Chris Pratt mold. But in contrast to the comedic male protagonists of yesteryear, the Silly Leading Man seems to combine both humor and a bit of muscularity—which may be a reason why he is so currently in demand.

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