Peyton Manning has been opening up about helping Glen Powell step into football mode for his new Hulu series Chad Powers.
In a new chat with Us Weekly, the NFL icon revealed how he and his younger brother Eli Manning gave Powell some real-life coaching to make the role more authentic.
“It’s more than a football show,” Peyton began.
He went on to explain, “It’s a comedy, it’s a redemption comeback story, but you do want the football part to look real."
"And Glen, I love the fact that he was asking questions. ‘How do I call an audible? Where do I put my hands when I’m walking a line of scrimmage?’ He went far.
"And so I love the fact that a couple of things that Eli and I suggested he implemented and I feel like we got that part right,” he continued.
Powell stars as the titular character in the series, which grew out of a viral sketch featuring Eli on Eli's Places and is now produced by Peyton’s Omaha Productions.