Culture Glen Powell is everywhere. The 35-year-old Texas-born actor’s career skyrocketed this year with his starring role in Anyone But You alongside Sydney Sweeney, where a clever marketing campaign (combined with some helpful on-set romance rumours ) saw the film bring in a whopping $219 million at the box office. In an era where movie execs were pretty much unanimous on rom-coms being a dead format, or at least a financially unattractive one, Powell and Sweeney proved them wrong.
Then came Richard Linklater’s Hit Man , a comedy hit that was snapped up by Netflix for £20m after its surprisingly warm reception at film festivals. And now he’s fronting Twisters, a certified blockbuster that’s currently looking like the high point of summer cinema. You’ve probably seen him in other films too.
He had a supporting role in another box office smash, Top Gun 2: Maverick, alongside Tom Cruise , Jon Hamm and Miles Teller, and he plays the romantic lead in that strangely enduring Netflix rom-com Set It Up, with Zoey Deutch. Then there’s a bunch of films you may have seen but didn’t see him: getting his head smashed in by Bane as a “Trader #1” in The Dark Knight. Playing a boy with long fingers in Spy Kids 3.
His turn as “Good looking frat guy” in Stuck in Love. Powell has hustled hard for his newfound footing in Hollywood. So how did this dog-loving, business-minded bachelor go from being a frat boy in a world of ‘Robert Pattinson type’ casting calls, to the .
