Glen Powell Provides Lookalike Contest Winner a Film Cameo Prize

The lookalike contest craze swept thru Austin, Texas, this weekend, the place a number of (ostensibly) kick back, captivating, and good-looking dudes collected to turn out they have been the doppelgänger of the (if truth be told) maximum kick back, captivating, and good-looking dude in the market at the moment: Glen Powell. 

The winner was once set to take house $5, a cowboy hat, and 12 months of unfastened queso from the taco chain Torchy’s. Now not a foul haul for the decisively low-stakes festival — till Powell himself upped the ante. The Twisters superstar, who’s these days filming Edgar Wright’s new film The Working Guy within the U.Okay., despatched in a video for the competition, providing the winner a cameo in considered one of his subsequent films — in fact, no longer for the winner themselves, however for any member in their circle of relatives. 

As Powell defined within the clip, “Now, it’s possible you’ll know that my oldsters make a cameo in each and every film I make. However these days, the winner of the Glen Powell Lookalike Contest wins their oldsters — or any circle of relatives member in their selection — a cameo in my subsequent film. I’m totally critical. This can be a cash-value prize of $6 billion.”

(Powell’s complete video is, unsurprisingly, definitely worth the watch. It took him just about a complete minute to get to the real prize section, with the actor the use of that lengthy intro to perform a little bits. First, he welcomed people to the “Justin Hartley Lookalike Contest” after which quipped, “I’ve assembled you right here these days at Auditorium Shores for crucial venture: I wish to pull off a heist. And we don’t want mask, as a result of all of us have the similar face. It’s the easiest crime. They are able to’t get all folks, as a result of we’re one. A prison” — watch for it — “Glen-terprise.”)

According to Fox 7 in Austin, the lookalike contest attracted masses of onlookers. Whilst Powell wasn’t there in particular person, his mother—who was once there to assist pass judgement on—stored the actor within the loop on FaceTime the entire time. In the end, the grand prize went to contestant quantity 4, a doctor’s assistant named Maxwell Braunstein. He mentioned he’s been listening to he looks as if Powell for see you later that he was once assured sufficient to name his shot. 

“I did inform folks I used to be going to win,” he mentioned. Braunstein additionally it appears were given to talk in short with Powell over FaceTime, telling him, “Blessed that your mom thinks I’m anything else like ya.”