{"id":239109,"date":"2025-10-25T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239109\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:38:07","slug":"i-dont-know-how-anyone-takes-themselves-seriously-in-this-job-hollywood-hotshot-glen-powell-talks-to-marina-hyde-glen-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239109\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t know how anyone takes themselves seriously in this job\u2019: Hollywood hotshot Glen Powell talks to Marina Hyde | Glen Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s that famous line in the first episode of The\u00a0Sopranos, where Tony laments his place in the timeline. \u201cLately I\u2019m getting the feeling,\u201d he confides, \u201cthat I came in at the end. The best is over.\u201d I know Tony was talking about the mindful joy of building an incredibly violent organised crime enterprise from the ground up \u2013 but lately I\u2019ve been thinking about his words every time I watch Glen Powell<\/a> giving it 200% as a\u00a0movie star. Glen Powell is Hollywood\u2019s hottest mid-level actor; but because of the harsh realities of modern movie stardom, a lot of people still don\u2019t know who he is. You get the feeling he\u2019s coming in at the end of something.<\/p>\n

Yet barely a week goes by where I don\u2019t hear of an uncast starring role \u2013 the bodyguard in the Bodyguard remake, the cybercriminal in the Matrix remake, the hot soldier in the Starship Troopers remake \u2013 and not think: tell you what, Glen Powell could do that for you. Glen Powell could deliver that. He\u2019s not going to turn up late to set, he\u2019s going to work harder than anyone else, he\u2019s going to promote the arse out of it \u2013 and if all that can open a wormhole back to the era when literally everyone knew who movie stars were, then Glen Powell is sure as hell going to take the opportunity. He is, quite simply, a\u00a0one-man cargo cult for Hollywood\u2019s vanished primacy.<\/p>\n

Jumper, trousers and shoes: Tom Ford<\/p>\n

I\u2019m kidding, of course. Because the good news, I\u00a0discover as I sit with him, is that you can kid around with Glen Powell: actor, writer, proud Texan. And also: condiment tycoon, at a price point America can afford (more on that later, rest assured).<\/p>\n

\u201cTruly, I don\u2019t know how anyone takes themselves seriously in this job,\u201d he laughs. And yet, so many do, Glen. \u201cNo, but I really don\u2019t. It\u2019s so funny. On every movie I literally sit there thinking: there is no way you can be a self-serious person and do this job well, because it\u2019s so ridiculous.\u201d It\u2019s hard to disagree, thinking back to this morning\u2019s photoshoot, where I watched Glen wearing an extremely expensive top-to-toe purple outfit while wiping the floor after a little accident by his internet-famous dog, Brisket. A beguiling fluffball, Brisket has attended a lot of premieres, and takes second billing to Glen \u2013 for now. You have to remember this is a dog-eat-dog business.<\/p>\n

In the flesh, Glen is chirpily handsome and category five amiable \u2013 a sort of Mickey Mouse Club version of James Dean. He\u2019s about to open in Edgar Wright\u2019s remake of The Running Man, based on the Stephen King novel \u2013 another of those dystopian fictions that sees society as a death game that are (for whatever reason!) having a\u00a0long cultural moment. \u201cI\u2019ve watched everything Edgar has ever done,\u201d Glen enthuses \u2013 and it\u2019s fun thinking of him enjoying the lost British males of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and The World\u2019s End, and then offering up his own all-American hunkdom to the Wright vision.<\/p>\n

Powell as Ben Richards in Edgar Wright\u2019s The Running Man. Photograph: Entertainment Pictures\/Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re in a big moment for Glen Powell \u2013 yet, simultaneously, he\u2019s fully aware that being a major movie star is a different game from what it was last time this particular action title was on cinema marquees. (The year: 1987. The star: Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger.) \u201cYeah,\u201d he smiles. \u201cIt\u2019ll never be what it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re being brought takeaway pasta at a picnic table on the Paramount Pictures lot \u2013 perhaps fittingly, the last bit of Hollywood still located in actual Hollywood \u2013 and I\u2019ve tactically ordered ravioli because it\u2019s the least messy, and I\u2019m worried about having 2ft of spaghetti trailing out of my mouth while I\u2019m asking Glen Powell about the fracturing of shared contemporary culture. Glen\u2019s gone for something involving significant amounts of one of those spiky lettuces that Americans have fancy names for. Could be dangerous.<\/p>\n

Anyway: the lost past. Glen likes to tell a story about the education he received around a decade ago on The\u00a0Expendables 3<\/a>. (Important Glen Powell fact: he loves nothing more than an education, and is fully committed to meeting his heroes and learning everything about the business from them.) The Expendables is the franchise where Sylvester Stallone keeps getting a bunch of action stars of the 1980s and 90s together for one last job. On\u00a0Glen\u2019s iteration of the series, he was in the gang with Stallone, Harrison Ford, Schwarzenegger, Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, Dolph Lundgren and Antonio Banderas. The full action retirement community. \u201cAll those guys were really so great,\u201d he remembers. \u201cThey were legends. And they were like: man, you\u2019re doing this at the wrong time \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Does he wish he were born in that earlier time (a bit like that stripe of modern British politician who secretly imagines they\u2019d have been just the man for the bygone glories of the 20th or even 19th centuries)? \u201cLook, every era of Hollywood has the sky-is-falling mentality. It was always better back then. But my favourite movies are, like, 90s, early 2000s. That\u2019s what I grew up watching, and what made me come out here [to LA].\u201d<\/p>\n

In Top Gun: Maverick (2020), with Daisy Edgar-Jones in Twisters (2024) and in Chad Powers (2025), starring and co-written by Powell. Photographs: Collection Christophel\/Alamy; TCD\/ProdDB\/ Alamy; Daniel Delgado\/Disney<\/p>\n

He\u2019s certainly remade a few of them, or at least starred in modern reboots of them. His serious breakout was in 2022\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick<\/a> as Hangman, the spiritual heir to Val Kilmer\u2019s swaggering Iceman in the original. Then there was Twisters<\/a>, a sequel to the mid-90s Twister, and now The Running Man, while one of the many projects in the pipeline is a Ron Howard movie about firefighters, which it\u2019s hard not to feel is at least in the Backdraft extended universe. Surely one can teleport our entire culture back to the golden age of action stardom?<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s also the other side to his career \u2013 movies such as the 2023 neo-noir Hit Man<\/a>, co-written with Richard Linklater, which made some film snoots suddenly feel differently about him. And the small matter of his saving romcoms \u2013 twice \u2013 with Set It Up<\/a> (2018, huge for Netflix), and 2023\u2019s Anyone But You<\/a>, where he starred opposite bombshell turned culture-wars lightning rod Sydney Sweeney, and served up a surprise box-office hit. That one came with a side performance of fauxmance, as the pair allowed the media to think they were maybe dating to promote the film (they weren\u2019t). Meanwhile, he\u2019s co-written Chad Powers<\/a>, a new TV sports comedy for Hulu \u2013 and just wrapped on Ghostwriter, a fantasy film for JJ Abrams. It\u2019s quite the mix.<\/p>\n

Tom Cruise told me: you\u2019ve got to have skin on the line. You\u2019ve got to show up for the audienceJumper: Tom Ford<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you meet my family,\u201d he explains, \u201cyou\u2019ll probably see why.\u201d (Vital Glen Powell fact: Glen Powell is utterly devoted to his parents, Glen Sr, an executive coach, and Cyndy, a homemaker and frequent cameo in his movies. Ditto the two sisters he falls in the middle of \u2013 Leslie is a musician, and Lauren has just given birth to her second set of twins). \u201cThis would be a family where you go see a Yankees game and a Broadway show in one day. I loved Gene Kelly, and I love Bruce Willis.\u201d But they were homebodies, too. \u201cOh yeah. You go to the ranch in Texas, and the kitchen \u2013 that\u2019s where all life happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

And you love romcoms. \u201cWell, I grew up with sisters, and so many female cousins \u2013 the women in the Powell family really run the roost. I mean, my dad took my mom\u2019s last name.\u201d Well, fancy that. \u201cRight? But actually there\u2019s something about romcoms. A lot of actors tell me their favourite movies and I\u2019m, like, that\u2019s dark. I\u00a0always like movies that are rewatchable, that fill you up.\u201d Comforting things? \u201cYeah, comforting things. I\u00a0sort of like escapist things, where you\u2019re not pulling people\u2019s energy, you\u2019re giving them energy. And that\u2019s what romcoms are to me.\u201d He can quote Legally Blonde in its entirety. In fact, because of the meeting-his-heroes thing, Glen made it his business to connect with Karen McCullah, the great romcom writer who gave us Legally Blonde. And then he knew just who he had to introduce her to. \u201cWhen my family met Karen McCullah, it was like they were meeting the Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powell and his family attend a Hit Man premiere, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Photograph: Rick Kern\/ Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n

Even so, movie romance feels endangered. There was a study saying intimacy on screen had decreased 40% since the millennium<\/a>. Glen, I\u2019m worried hot people aren\u2019t getting it on in the movies as much as they used to. \u201cIs that right? Why do you think that is?\u201d I dunno. Changing tastes in a disinherited generation? I tell him I noted the last scene of Twisters seemed to be him asking for Daisy Edgar-Jones\u2019s informed consent to even phone her. Although, I read they did film a kiss but the director didn\u2019t use it<\/a>. \u201cI blame myself,\u201d Glen cackles. Just botched the kiss? \u201cI tried! I did my best!\u201d<\/p>\n

You see, he looks like this alpha, macho, watch-loving guy \u2013 but he\u2019s always out there subverting it. Maybe that\u2019s the Glen Powell special sauce (not the actual sauce; we\u2019ll get to the sauce). \u201cI mean \u2026 it\u2019s not a conscious thing. You know, I grew up with big dogs. And when I was going to adopt a dog, I went to look at big dogs. But then I liked Brisket. A little fluffy, cute, part-chihuahua was not in the plan \u2013 but we found each other.\u201d I realise Glen reminds me a lot of the old Athena poster <\/a>of the hot, shirtless guy holding the baby. If you\u2019re my age or over, you\u2019ll remember it. If you\u2019re younger, all I need to tell you is that this was the biggest-selling poster of the 1980s and made the photographer so much money that he bought a plane.<\/p>\n

Having said that, Glen\u2019s vibe wasn\u2019t ringing the tills for a long while back there. He dropped out of his University of Texas degree in Spanish and early American history. (Of course \u2013 of course \u2013 he is now completing this degree aged 37, remotely, while shooting films. Glen Powell sees things through. Also, it would make his mother really happy.) He moved to LA with the kind of charmed introduction that must have felt like he was 10 minutes from stardom: Denzel Washington, who\u2019d cast a teenage Powell in The Great Debaters, hooked him up with his agent, Ed Limato. At which point \u2026 Glen settled into a long, long period of rejection and disappointment. I\u00a0heard he flunked auditions for Han Solo and Captain America? He pauses to dentally extract a particularly lengthy piece of lettuce. \u201cNow, you\u2019re talking about the big ones. But I also failed a lot of auditions for really bad jobs. Like, some bad roles.\u201d So you had range? \u201cOh\u00a0yeah, I had real range in my failure. I didn\u2019t get cast in some really bad movies, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things took a serious downward turn when Limato died in 2010. Glen still remembers exactly where he was when he got the call that the agency was dropping him. \u201cI\u00a0knew that would be the beginning of a really tough road. You had a guy who was the top of the food chain, and he was really looking out for me. But when he died, and I got let go, I knew I was in for a scrappy little\u00a0run.\u201d On the plus side, those agents will be massively kicking themselves now? \u201cOh, I talk to some of them \u2013 they\u2019re still friends of mine. But I do give them shit about it,\u201d he confirms with a twinkle. \u201cYou have to.\u201d But maybe not becoming famous in your 20s is good? \u201cOh man, I\u00a0think it\u2019s really good. Honestly.\u201d We then have to pause for the extraction of a piece of lettuce so big it needs its\u00a0own trailer.<\/p>\n

One thing Limato managed to do for Powell before he died was get him a job reading scripts for the late producer and writer Lynda Obst, responsible for movies\u00a0from Sleepless in Seattle to Interstellar. He adored it. \u201cIt was a really cool thing. She was one of those really special producers. You know, Texans have this really weird thing \u2013 \u201d<\/p>\n

Sorry, wait \u2013 you\u2019re from Texas?<\/p>\n

\u201cHa! I haven\u2019t told anyone \u2026 Break the story that I\u2019m\u00a0Texan! But, listen, Texans really do take care of other Texans.\u201d (Even honorary ones do \u2013 Obst was born in New York, but had made a home in Texas.) \u201cShe was a Longhorn! So I got to go and sit on the Sony lot and read scripts for her. I was the fastest reader by far. I did three scripts a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not going to see me talk politics. But movies \u2013 that\u2019s how I express myselfJacket: Brioni. Polo shirt: Zegna<\/p>\n

Flash forward several years to Tom Cruise offering him a role in Top Gun: Maverick, and Glen is (a) broke, but (b) really knows what he needs from a script. And somewhat bizarrely, given (a), he almost didn\u2019t take the part of Hangman, summoning the confidence to push back against the original script until Cruise reconfigured his character\u2019s place within in it. \u201cBut doing it that way was the greatest decision I ever made. It could have been me sitting on the sidelines, kicking my heels, thinking: \u2018Man, I burned a few years.\u2019 But it was the best film school. The fact that Tom is such a close friend now \u2013 when I got Running Man, he was literally my first call. I\u00a0said: \u2018Dude, you\u2019ve been doing this for decades.\u2019 He has picked up every trick in the book. And he\u2019s so generous \u2013 I thought I was going to talk to him for 10 minutes. He\u00a0stayed on the phone for two hours plus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Give us a peek at the Tom Cruise trick-book, then. \u201cHe\u2019s like: \u2018Tell me some of the stunts you\u2019re doing.\u2019 I\u00a0said: \u2018OK, I\u2019m jumping off exploding bridges, falling off roofs.\u2019 He said: \u2018Are you running at night?\u2019 Yes. \u2018OK, that means you\u2019ll probably wrap at five in the morning. Don\u2019t do any sprinting shots at five in the morning. Your body\u2019s going to be out of whack and you\u2019ll get hurt. They\u2019re always going to do a wetdown at night.\u2019\u201d (A\u00a0wetdown is when the crew hose down the ground both because the reflections look cooler in the dark, but also because it hides tyre skids or footprints or whatever for continuity.) \u201cSo Tom says: \u2018That\u2019s fine if you\u2019re running straight. If you\u2019re taking a corner, no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This is when meeting your heroes saves you a torn knee ligament. What else? \u201cHe goes: \u2018If you\u2019re hanging 11 storeys up, make sure people see how high you are. Make sure the shot reflects depth and dimension. You are selling the fact that you are doing these things.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Something a lot people say, in these days of endless CGI, is that there\u2019s a kind of empty feeling when you know it was all just done on green screen. It doesn\u2019t really connect. Is this why Tom Cruise \u2013 and now you \u2013 want to do as many as possible of your own stunts? \u201cRight. It really sells it because if the audience know that you are in peril, there is an inherent investment. I believe you have to give the audience their value in the ticket. If people are actively going to the theatre, getting a babysitter, maybe doing dinner, you\u2019ve got to justify that ticket price. And that\u2019s what Tom always talks about \u2013 you have to have skin on the line. If they\u2019re showing up for you, you\u2019ve got to show up for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But bingo cards at the ready, because the next movie Glen will shoot will be something he co-wrote with Judd Apatow in which he shows up as \u2026 a country singer. \u201cI\u2019ve always been so nervous to sing,\u201d he admits. \u201cI was obsessed with Elvis as a kid. And my little sister used to sell girl scout cookies, and there was a honeysuckle bush next to our house. And for everyone that bought one of her cookies, I gave them an Elvis song. But I couldn\u2019t sing in front of them, so I hid behind the honeysuckle bush and sang.\u201d Oh Glen. I think I just OD\u2019d on Americana. Will Judd Apatow be providing you with a honeysuckle bush? \u201cNo! I have to do it in front of everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems as good a time as any to say that I wonder if it\u2019s hard being all-American in such a divided America? \u201cYeah,\u201d\u00a0he\u00a0exhales. \u201cI\u2019m not a political person. I like things that bring people together.\u201d Sure. But it feels like you\u2019re the type of actor who wants to be for everyone, and that\u2019s getting so much harder now there are fewer parts of culture enjoyed by both sides, as it were. Take something like late-night television, which back in the glory days of David Letterman was TV watched by everybody, of all political leanings, but is now perceived to be siloed for only one side. (And that\u2019s what remains of late-night. Soon after this interview, Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily yanked off air<\/a>.) Maybe action movies are one of the last bastions of truly shared American culture?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a good point. There\u2019s a universal language of action, which is also why those movies translate so well internationally. Running Man is about something universal \u2013 what you would be willing to do for the people you love? But also how people can feel powerless in the face of a world that feels more and more unequal, more unfair. So, you\u2019re not going to see me talk politics. But movies \u2013 that\u2019s how I express myself. Movies are a\u00a0conversation; politics always felt to me like two people trying to prove a point.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Sydney Sweeney at an Anyone But You premiere, 2023. Photograph: John Lamparski\/ WireImage<\/p>\n

Unfortunately and undoubtedly, though, the erosion of shared mainstream culture makes that conversation smaller than it was. I say to Glen that it\u2019s as if there are fewer and fewer people who everyone is permitted to like, no matter what \u201cside\u201d they\u2019re on. The Rock<\/a>\u2019s one, and maybe Travis Kelce<\/a>. He agrees. Of all the people coming up to big-time stardom in recent years, I would have picked him and Sydney Sweeney as having that kind of broad appeal. Except now, Sweeney\u2019s been mired in a raging culture war<\/a>, after some people decided a denim advert in which she participated was \u2026 I can\u2019t quite believe I\u2019m typing this, but it is, after all, 2025 \u2026 eugenicist. Something to do with \u201cgood jeans\u201d and \u201cgood genes\u201d, apparently \u2013 but, please, don\u2019t dig further. Every second spent on it would make you stupider.<\/p>\n

Put politely, I tell Glen, I thought this was bullshit. And yet, I don\u2019t think people in the business came out to defend her. Is it because it\u2019s just a relief that the firestorm isn\u2019t happening to them at that moment? Or\u00a0is\u00a0it a form of cowardice? A pause. Not lettuce-related. \u201cI\u00a0think people weighed in on it,\u201d he says of the Sweeney firestorm. I don\u2019t, I say. I think she was left to twist in the wind. \u201cBut I think people are aware that it\u2019s bullshit.\u201d Yet they didn\u2019t say that publicly. \u201cLook, in an era in which businesses are evolving and are seeing their mortality in front of them, sometimes they are desperate to make anything run. Whether it\u2019s true or not, whether it hurts anyone \u2013 there is no accountability any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coat: Brioni<\/p>\n

I think he\u2019s talking about the news media and how it operates in a digital age \u2013 because if you think Hollywood is past its heyday, then it\u2019s got nothing on journalism. Back in the day, stars gave reflective, candid interviews, and those discussions sat relatively isolated in magazines and colour supplements or on evanescent episodes of celebrated talkshows. But these days, people want a news line or six out of an interview, and they want to put it in the headline, even though they know it\u2019s going to get scraped and clipped from here to kingdom come by every clickbait news website out there, within moments of it dropping online.<\/p>\n

And this is why celebrities don\u2019t want to say anything eye-catching in interviews any more. This is why we can\u2019t have reflective things. Any star, any author, any musician \u2013 anyone in the entertainment business these days who sits down to an interview has one overwhelming goal: to not make news. I tell Glen I can see why people would never really want to offer an opinion, because then you\u2019ve got three days of \u201cGlen Powell Wades Into Sydney Sweeney<\/a> Discourse\u201d headlines, and it\u2019s a nightmare and a distraction and it gets in the way of the work you want to do. Is that what it feels like? Another pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sad part is you do have to separate yourself,\u201d he sighs. \u201cYou can\u2019t get caught up in it \u2013 it has nothing to do with you, it has to do with ad dollars. And, you know, there is no course-correcting. If something\u2019s false, you\u2019re not actually setting the record straight, you\u2019re just feeding the beast. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t say shit \u2013 just let it come, and let it go. Not feeding the beast and not trying to fight anything. I\u2019ve realised the smart people in Hollywood don\u2019t try to fight anything that has nothing to do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, when all eyes were on Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s return after that controversial suspension, who should turn up as his very first guest? Why, I do believe it was Mr Glen Powell, bringing a smile and a care package of warm anecdotes, and declaring straight out of the gate that he was \u201chonoured to be here\u201d. And who should be pictured shortly thereafter at Sydney Sweeney\u2019s space-themed birthday, wearing a hilariously cheap Nasa astronaut costume that I refuse to believe he didn\u2019t buy on Amazon? Well, you get the point.<\/p>\n

Still, he must fear it\u2019ll be his turn to be in the woodchipper for something one of these days? \u201cOh, it\u2019s inevitable. It\u2019s not an if, it\u2019s when. It\u2019s been an adjustment. I try to be honest, work really hard, and treat people well \u2013 that\u2019s how I try to move through my life. Inevitably, you\u2019re going to catch some strays. But that\u2019s the nature of the job and I\u2019ve watched it happen to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tangentially, it strikes me that \u201cthe job\u201d has morphed beyond anything it was in the past. Remember when Mark Wahlberg\u2019s routine<\/a> dropped online, and it involved him getting up at 2.30am for the first of several workouts, as well having to incorporate meetings, prayer time, and the conflicting demands of family interaction and cryo-chamber recovery<\/a>? Glen laughs. In the modern style, even he is capable of giving a detailed explanation of the type of physique required for Ben Richards, his character in The Running Man. \u201cHe works in a factory, he\u2019s a guy whose body is like a tool. So I wanted him to be strong and durable \u2013 blue-collar strong, but not like he goes to a gym.\u201d Needless to say, this requires a significant amount of time in the gym.<\/p>\n

I love acting. The exhausting part, the part that throws me, is when I\u2019m in the real worldJacket: Louis Vuitton. Watch: Omega<\/p>\n

It must be weird \u2013 you get into this job because you like the feeling of acting, and the bit where you\u2019re doing that specific thing ends up being a small fraction of your time, around all the meetings and photoshoots and endless workouts and whatnot. Perhaps this is why, for all his easy charm, Glen has flipped to finding movie sets the sane places of the world. \u201cDo you know what\u2019s hit me in the last little bit? I love acting. I love the process of bringing a team of people together and we all come together and make something really cool. I\u2019m not exhausted by that \u2013 it\u2019s fun. But the exhausting part, the part that throws me, is when I\u2019m in the real world right now. On a movie set, you have your head down, you\u2019re collaborating with people, it feels very ordinary. But the part that I\u2019m getting used is this other thing.\u201d Fame? \u201cYeah. I\u2019m still figuring it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has, at least, figured out how to shift a load of ketchup. As mentioned, the modern actor has to be very diversified. So, back in April, Powell launched Smash Kitchen<\/a>, a range of organic ketchups and mustards and mayonnaises, ideal for pairing with the great Texas cuisine of barbecue. It has already sold more than a\u00a0million units in its first three months and is expanding at pace. As for where it\u2019s sold? Walmart, obviously. Cheapest sauce in the range is under two dollars, nothing costs more than five. I mean, it\u2019s too on the nose, and yet unavoidable \u2013 Glen Powell wants to be mass market, both as a movie star, and as a sauce mogul. \u201cSauce mogul! Sauce mogul! I have not heard that before \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe the best thing success has brought him, apart from unlimited condiments, was the right to move back to Texas, and escape from LA. \u201cWhen this town feels like Hollywood is happening here, there\u2019s nothing better. And when it\u2019s not, then \u2026 it\u2019s a harder place to live. But I always wanted to go back to Texas. That\u2019s where my family is, that\u2019s where my friends are. I have friends here, but I can bring them back to Texas.\u201d As he points out, it helps that Hollywood \u201cdecentralised overnight\u201d in the pandemic, because of Zoom, self-taping, a general cultural shift. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer a brick-and-mortar business.\u201d It\u2019s no longer a lot of things, but it\u2019s great that Glen has conquered it sufficiently to be allowed to WFT (Work From Texas).<\/p>\n

Which about wraps us up, bar my minor panic that the interview has not, in fact, recorded. The problem, I\u00a0tell him as I fiddle doubtfully with the recording device, is\u00a0that I don\u2019t do many interviews. In fact, I honestly don\u2019t think I\u2019ve done one for more than a decade. \u201cThat\u2019s a\u00a0long time! Who was it?\u201d I think it was a politician called Nigel Farage. \u201cNigel Farage?\u201d says Glen. \u201cI haven\u2019t heard of him.\u201d Well, short answer, it\u2019s just possible he\u2019s going to be prime minister of the United Kingdom one of these days. So what this logically means, Glen Powell, is that in around 13 years you\u2019re going to have to drop what you\u2019re doing \u2026 \u201cand be prime minister! Ha!\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen, in a darkening world, we can only live in hope.<\/p>\n

The Running Man is in cinemas on 12 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s that famous line in the first episode of The\u00a0Sopranos, where Tony laments his place in the timeline.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-239109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}