Glen Powell is an anachronism – a broad-appeal Hollywood hunk the likes of which we haven’t seen since Tom Cruise was dangling from ropes in sleek bank vaults. And he’s pushing for the types of movies that can bring Middle America to the multiplex. “Having grown up in and around Texas, I’m aware there are vast parts of America that have been underserved in terms of movies that they want to see,” Powell told The Telegraph in an interview published on Saturday, July 13.
“You sort of have New York and Los Angeles making the decisions about what gets made, but there’s a whole lot more audience out there you need to think about.” Powell has covered all corners of Hollywood in his rollercoaster of a career. He started his career in children’s movies, starring in 2003’s Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over .
In his later years, he made the move to starring in comedies such as Set It Up and the Fox TV series Scream Queens before Sylvester Stallone cast him in the 2014 action sequel Expendables 3 . Powell became a household name thanks to roles in Top Gun: Maverick and the rom-com Anyone But You . Anyone But You helped shape Powell’s view of Hollywood’s output and the way it’s letting audiences down.
“One of the things that I’ve realized recently is that when studios say a genre is dead, all it means is that there’s a huge opportunity, because a market is not being served,” he told The Telegraph . “The business stopped making romantic comedies, apparently, bec.
