What within the stereotype-soaked stunt is that this???
Say what you’ll about viral health influencer Ashton Corridor, however the brotha has already gone from amusing the web with bizarre, outlandish exercise routine movies to formally selling a Hollywood movie with a bizarre, outlandish exercise routine video—with fried rooster, watermelon and all.
This time, Corridor has teamed up with actor Glen Powell, who stars within the upcoming movie, The Working Man, which relies on Stephen King’s 1982 ebook of the identical title, however there’s a brief second in Corridor’s exercise video that’s elevating eyebrows.
From KTLA:
To advertise his upcoming film, Glen Powell met up with Corridor for a routine of their very own. The routine was uploaded to Instagram early Tuesday morning.
“From IG reels to the Massive display,” the caption stated. “‘The Working Man.’”
It begins off with Corridor dunking his face in a bowl of lemon ice water; he then dries off with some completely positioned clear towels.
At 8:54 a.m. he opens up his laptop computer at his desk and provides the ending touches to a doc titled, “Glen Powell ‘Working Man’ Coaching Routine.”
The digital camera cuts to the 2 males assembly and starting their coaching.
At 9:31 a.m., they strap on their weighted vests and get to work. An hour later, they take off for a run. Nonetheless, it appears the pair skipped out on Corridor’s well-known sprints.
Then at 12:19 p.m., the influencer heads to the flicks the place he’s served fried rooster and watermelon as he’s seated to observe the trailer of the Maverick: Prime Gun 2 actor’s new movie, The Working Man.
Now, off the highest, you, me, and possibly Dr. Umar Johnson are all asking the identical evident query:
Why TF is that this man on this video with a plate of fried rooster and a bowl of watermelon chunks?
Positive, a Black man all of the sudden leaning into Black stereotypes whereas selling a white-led film that had nothing to do with Black stereotypes looks as if some Sunken Place-adjacent (uncle) tomfoolery—however, to be honest, Ashton Corridor is…attention-grabbing.
Again in March, Corridor earned the web’s collective side-eye by posting a video purported to indicate his morning health routine, which begins at 4 a.m. and consists of him doing morning push-ups on his balcony, burying his face in a bowl of ice, sprinting at excessive speeds on the treadmill, swimming for roughly 20 minutes (4 minutes of which had been, apparently, spent suspended in mid-air from the diving board), wiping his face off with a banana peel, burying his face in additional ice, brokering some random enterprise deal over a Zoom name, after which being served breakfast by somebody all-camera. Additionally, for some purpose, the polarizing influencer made positive we watched him brush his enamel. (I don’t know why we couldn’t have simply assumed that was a part of the routine.)
He’s additionally apparently fairly keen on watermelon and is seen consuming it in his movies.
Look, I do know none of this explains the rooster and watermelon, however, come on, y’all—that is precisely the sort of dude who would randomly pop up with rooster and watermelon with no further context.
Shout out to Ashton Corridor for making it to the film advert enterprise, although.
The Working Man hits theaters on Nov. 7.
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