Fall Out Boy Pitch Glen Powell on Directing a Video After ‘SNL’ Bit

As we learned this weekend during his stint hosting Saturday Night Live, The Running Man star Glen Powell contains multitudes. In the promos for Saturday’s (Nov. 15) episode Powell showed off his considerable dancing skills, and during the episode he proved he can handle accents, suit up as a member of the sassy “Bob Army” and do a wicked Sebastian Maniscalco impression.

But one thing he did rocked so hard that Fall Out Boy were inspired to shoot their shot with the actor who is undeniably on a career-high hot streak. During his monologue the actor who got his start way back in 2003 as “long-fingered boy” in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and has appeared in more than two dozen films since — including Hidden Figures, Top Gun: Maverick and the rom-com Anyone But You — mused on the idea that some people claim he “came out of nowhere.”

“And that’s just not true. I started acting when I was 10 in Austin, Texas,” Powell told the audience. “I did student films, local commercials, internet safety videos… Even when I was a teen I directed some of my own films. They were a little experimental, emotionally nuanced. I was watching a lot of French new wave at the time. I think you’ll see the influence,” he explained.

Powell then proceeded to roll out his own home-brewed, lo-res video for Fall Out Boy’s breakthrough 2005 single, “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” in which he sprints down a street howling and gets super emo as he sings “is this more than you bargained for” while wearing a sailor hat and staring longingly into the lens in front of a lake.

Well, the band saw what he said and they are down to collab. In a post on Sunday (Nov. 16), FOB shared a clip of Powell’s “Sugar” bit and asked, “want to direct the next fob music video @glenpowell?” Over on X, fans were totally down for that idea as well. “Okay guys now have him upload the full thing!,” wrote one, with another adding, “God Glen Powell f–king rules. I just keep finding reasons to love this dude.” FOB released their eighth studio album, So Much (for) Stardust, in March 2023.

Watch Powell’s FOB video on SNL below.