Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch guaranteed to be a star on Super Bowl Sunday

Seattle Seahawks icon Marshawn Lynch wants to be a movie star, and he might just have the effervescence to do that. He might not be a leading man (yet), but maybe he does not want that yet anyway. He simply wants to be an action hero, which somehow makes complete sense when it comes to Beast Mode. He was all about that action anyway.

In an obvious sense of timing, Lynch will be appearing in a movie called Love Hurts that will be released on February 7. If that seems meaningless, it isn't. The Super Bowl attached to the 2024 season is set for February 9. There is no way that the makers of the film did not know that. This means they are partly relying on Lynch's fame to help get the movie a few more views.

The film stars Ke Huy Quan (you might know him as Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom but more recently from Everything Everywhere All at Once), Ariana DeBose, and Daniel Wu. If you have seen the trailer for the movie, though, you will know Lynch is going to have a presence. The early part of the trailer shows Lynch and that is not by accident, either.

Former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch will star in Love Hurts on Super Bowl weekend

The movie, according to IMDB, is about a "realtor (being) pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner-in-crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past and the history he never fully buried." None of that has anything to do with Lynch, really, but the trailer certainly does.

What Seahawks fans do not know is exactly how much time Lynch will have on screen. The role seems to fit him, and he has done a bit of acting before. If one did not know who Marshawn Lynch was then they might not think twice about the actor on the screen. I mean, the character is fine, but not transformative.

Or is he? Hopefully, Lynch has a juicy role that catapults him into many more films. Heck, Jim Brown became a movie star so why can Lynch not? He has the charisma and energy to transform a great football career into another form of entertainment, surely. He also implies a Lynch-style sense of humor which will work long-term as well.

In other words, when it gets to be the Friday before Super Bowl LIX and you need to have something related to football going on, go see Love Hurts. The action should be great. Hopefully, Lynch will be as well.

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