Given to me as a gift: Chad Powers stars reveal why they fell in love with their characters off the football field

Date:
Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000

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Chad Powers' Wynn Everett and Frankie Rodriguez are the unsung heroes of the new Disney+ show.

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The new Disney+ and Hulu sports-comedy Chad Powers is flying high among the streaming services most popular titles. It sees Glen Powell play a failed sports superstar who pulls a Mrs Doubtfire to restore his reputation by joining a college football team.

Powells character is leading part of the show's comedic flair, but, frankly, it's the rest of the cast that the show couldnt survive without. Im talking about chair of the colleges trust Tricia, played by Wynn Everett, and team mascot and Russ mentor Danny, played by Frankie Rodriguez.

Of all the characters in Chad Powers , Tricia and Danny are two beaming characters who, despite their seemingly ill-fitting place in the world of college football and roles off the football field, are two of the shows most integral characters.

From being an authoritative woman in sport to serving as a mentor for the teams star player, here's what actors Everett and Rodriguez reveal about
their character and what they think makes them so special. From one icon...
In Chad Powers , Tricia is a head-strong southern belle and chair of the college's booster trust (Image credit: Hulu / YouTube)

Tricia is truly larger than life, and her boisterous personality beams
through from the moment she appears on screen. Everett reveals that there are many sides to Tricia, which is a reflection of the many women that inspired her to base the character on. Tricia is inspired by like ten different women that I grew up with in Atlanta, Georgia, she shares, but it was one in particular that she drew inspiration from," she said.

My mother is very southern. One moment shell say Im praying for you, were going to pray about this, and then 10 minutes later shell drop something on me. But yes the women in my life are strong, powerful, incredibly southern icons, and I just pulled from them and pieced Tricia together. Everett says her character was "given to her as a gift" (Image credit: Hulu / YouTube )

Being an iconic southern woman is just the surface of Tricias character, though. In reality, she has a tight ship to run, which requires sheer confidence to be the chair of the colleges football team a role where shes granted more power than the men on the team. I love the fact that she can
hold something over Coach Hudson, that I actually have a little more power than he does and that I have the ability to fire people," Everett said.

It was in these moments that she was most comfortable, and it shows. This is something I definitely embody. I mean, I would never want to fire anyone anyway, but I love her balls to the wall life motto and that she is going to get what needs to be done to get a national championship. (Image credit: Hulu / YouTube )

Above all the dramatic over-exaggerations that come naturally to Tricia, the singular most prominent aspect of her character is her role as an authoritative woman in sport, which Everett credits to the way she was portrayed on paper. I truly dont feel like I had to portray anything because the words were so perfect. They were given to me as a gift and (they) created this character, this woman, and I just really tried to ground myself in her," she said. ...to the next Danny is Russ' unlikely confidante who helps him get into the Chad Powers disguise (Image credit: Hulu / YouTube )

Tricia is an icon in her own right, but so is Frankie Rodriguezs Danny, Russ/ Chads closest companion in the show. When Danny isnt running across the field as the teams mascot, hes busy helping Russ keep up appearance with his disguise as Chad creating an unlikely harmonious pair.

I think its because you have these two people who would never interact in
real life and their circles are so separate. So when you put them together,
it really is like the odd couple, Rodriguez said.

As a viewer, the contrast between Russ burly exterior and Dannys creative personality results in great character chemistry and genius comedic timing. Rodriguez offers his insight: For some reason, it works, because they both need something from each other," he said. "And theyre kind of each others
last resort at friendship, but they have a weird way of navigating that. So I think thats whats fun about them. But Danny is much more than that. Just as Danny is a mentor for Russ, he also learns a lot of valuable lessons in
return (Image credit: Hulu / YouTube )

Being the mastermind behind the Chad Powers disguise is just one of Dannys integral roles. Moreover, hes an important mentor figure. I think that
(Danny) teaches (Russ/ Chad) to slow down and not just go balls to the wall.
I think Russ is the kind of person who acts off instinct and theres a lot of aggression there. I mean, hes a football player! Danny just teaches him to think things through.

On the other hand, Danny is a student just as he is a head-strong mentor, as Rodriguez puts it: With Russ teaching Danny, I think its the opposite. Hes actually teaching him that maybe you should be a little more out there, so I think thats kind of the loop there. Their unique bond has only just been explored, and theres so much scope for an even deeper evolution in Chad
Powers season two.

The first three episodes of Chad Powers are now streaming on Hulu (US) and Disney+ (internationally).

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