Relatable celebrities are always fun to see because often, the lifestyles of the rich and the famous end up seeming so far from our “normal” reality that you can’t possible understand how they’d “get” you. Luckily, celebrities sometimes really are just like us.
As promotion for his new Hulu series Chad Powers, Glen Powell went back to Jake Shane’s podcast Therapuss where last time Powell told an urban legend about cannibals and tricked everyone into thinking it was real. Don’t think I ever forgot about being afraid of cannibals for a week.
This time, Shane and Powell talked about a lot of things, including Powell’s own seeming insecurities about the things he says to people at events. As someone who leaves a space and instantly think everyone there thinks I am annoying and hates me, I deeply related to this conversation.
“Do you have the thing that when you go to an event or have a conversation with somebody, when you get home and you’re back by yourself, you have sort of the Sunday Scaries? Or whatever the Monday Morning Quarterbacking everything that happened?” Powell asked Shane who said that he often feels that way. Powell went on to say “I literally feel like I do this all the time.”
After large events for my job, I go home and think about every mistake I every made and so does both Shane and Powell, apparently. “It’s very nice that you say that I can read a room but I’ll literally go to something and I’ll have all these conversations and then I’ll get home and I’ll be like ‘Why did you do that? Why did you say that?’ Like I’ll literally just like hate on myself and that’s one thing I’m trying to get better about, which is like ‘Okay, people know you’re good intentioned.'”
Your own brain can be your own worst enemy
I often struggle with imposter syndrome. I never really know if I actually deserve to belong in the spaces I find myself in. Like….I interviewed both Leonardo DiCaprio and Glen Powell in the span of a week of each other and those two actors and their careers mean a lot to me. You think I’m not second-guessing every single word I said to them?
It is, unfortunately, a unifying experience. I wonder who are the people who don’t feel this way. If Glen Powell, who seemingly walks into a room and is very kind and nice to everyone he sees ends up feeling like someone who said the wrong thing and second-guesses himself, what does that say about the rest of us?
You can tell me to my face that you love me and I didn’t say anything wrong and I will hear you, nod, and continue to question everything. But, as Powell points out, it is important to remember that the people who do love you and know your real intentions will understand that even if you misspoke or were “too much” one time, you had the best of intentions in doing so.
As always, Jake Shane’s podcast allows celebrities the chance to share their own thoughts and feelings with fans and I do think that hearing that I am far from alone in second guessing everything I’ve ever said is nice.
(featured image: Therapuss with Jake Shane)
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