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stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones know fans of the original film are eagerly awaiting to see what this stand-alone sequel is all about. As fans of the original (1996) themselves, Powell told Yahoo Entertainment "it's a movie that obviously we all care about." The actor said his relationship with late actor , who starred with in the disaster thriller, helped make this experience emotionally fulfilling.

"I think that's made this thing even more meaningful," Powell said. "[ ] is a movie that really meant a lot to me as a kid, you know, growing up in Texas, it's a movie that felt very ..



. just very much a story of kind of the community I grew up around and the people I grew up around." In 2013, Powell and Paxton co-starred in .

Paxton died in 2017 due to complications from surgery. "I think just knowing Bill and knowing how much this movie meant to him, and how he saw the world differently afterward, and then having in this movie and shooting that sequence with him and hearing stories about Bill — it all grounds it in a way that's hard to describe," Powell said. (James Paxton makes a cameo as a motel guest.

) Powell plays Tyler in the modern-day disaster film, a charismatic storm chaser and social media influencer. Think cowboy scientist. He links up with Edgar-Jones's character Kate, a meteorologist and former storm chaser.

Kate is almost a mix of Paxton and Hunt's roles from . Although she didn't talk with Hunt about making this film, the British actress told Yahoo that .

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