He’s noticing it, too.
“There is no finish line when it comes to this job,” he told Vogue.
But how did Powell become a bonafide Hollywood star?
Powell has two sisters named Lauren and Leslie, and the actor is very close with his family.
“That’s always just been part of the fabric of the town.”
Powell attended Westwood High School, where he played lacrosse and football.
Years later, Powell’s athletic background would be useful for his action-packed films.
“I just knew that I wanted to be in the business.”
“She really celebrated actors.
She made me want to show people what I had,” Powell explained.
“There was an intensity, but you never forgot that you were playing pretend.”
“I had been preparing for this role my entire life.
I promised Sly to go into the trenches with him if he went with me.
He told me recently that my letter sealed the deal.”
Years later, “The Expendables 3” is still one of Powell’s favorite experiences to date.
The hardest part was not smiling," he said.
“You’ve just got to jump in with both feet.
It may not be quick.
It may not be fun.
But you’ve got to bet on yourself,” Washington said.
For a while, Powell landed only minor parts in movies.
“I failed for a very, very long time,” he told Austin Monthly.
But Powell remained resilient and was prepared to wait patiently for his big break.
“I decided I wouldn’t look at the industry as a competition.
If I had, I would have been discouraged,” he said.
During his early days in Hollywood, he also sold some of the screenplays he wrote.
(Think “Glee” meets “American Horror Story” two of Murphy’s other hit shows.)
“The stunt guy legitimately fell like 20 feet right on that thin mat.
So Rick said, play him like the person everybodysaysthey were in college.
The bullsh*t version of their story?
Make him that guy!”
According to Powell, the 1970s set film is his favorite movie he’s ever made.
“There’s not going to be a more charmed, lovely experience.
“Hopefully, we get to make many, many more movies together.”
Thankfully for fans, Deutch and Powell are slated to reunite in the rom-com “Most Dangerous Game.”
He described to Vanity Fair how “every dude had the same haircut.”
“I liken it to a dad playing catch with his son for the first time.
It just meant something to him.”
The surrealism isn’t lost on Powell.
“The dream of this business is to occupy the costumes of your heroes.
And to occupy a flight suit with Tom Cruise is as cool as it gets,” he toldPeople.
“I’m still pinching myself.”
“I’m glad we’re viral on TikTok.
I’m glad those sit-ups weren’t for nothing,” he said.
The film follows a psychology professor posing as a fake hitman for the New Orleans Police.
She was trying to get him before he got her,” he explained to Vogue.
The film has all the ingredients of a classic rom-com: Two extremely good-looking leads.
A slew of hilarious mishaps and an enemies-to-lovers arc.
“When all that stuff happened, you know,publicly,it felt disorienting and unfair.
I care for him so much.”
Despite the rumors, Powell wouldn’t hesitate to be Sweeney’s co-star again.
“She’s an impressive person, and what she does on screen is electric.
I would work with her again in a heartbeat,” Powell toldBusiness Insider.
Powell insists the film isnota reboot, and he wants viewers to expect something different.
“We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one.
It’s just its own standalone story in the modern-day,” he told Vogue.
Powell believes the subject matter will resonate with today’s audience, and it’s easy to see why.
The amount of natural disasters in recent decades has skyrocketed in the wake of climate change.
“Ryan Murphy and I, we’re actually making a musical together.
“The Chad Radwell Musical.
That’s the funniest idea.”
Funniestandbest idea, we’d say.
Glen Powell writes movies.
He acts on the small screen.
He acts on the big screen.
And now he’s making musicals?
It’s hard to believe.
Glen Powell is apparently the multihyphenate we didn’t know we needed.
