Glen Powell took his first steps on the big screen when he was just a teenager. It’s one of his very first roles that holds a truly special place in the Everyone But You star’s heart. Can you imagine what it is?
Today he is a real sex symbol, as well as one of the most requested actors from major film productions. However, when he landed on a set for the first time, Glen Powell he was about 13 years old. Perhaps it was because it was the first time he experienced the magic of the seventh art first-hand. Or because, finally, he was on the right path to realizing his dream of being an actor. The fact is that that first role still represents one of the most precious memories in the 35-year-old’s career.
Powell, for two years now, has acted alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick and he hit the jackpot box office with the rom-com Everyone except you. However, these are the days spent on the set of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) by Robert Rodriguez which the star counts among the happiest of her life, despite more than twenty years having passed since then.
Here’s what the protagonist said Hit Man to the microphones of The Hollywood Reporter.
I will never forget that moment: one of the best days of my life. I was 13 years old. I shot my part and then stood behind the camera. The entire crew had the most interesting jobs on the planet. I had countless friends on set. And Spy Kids 3-D was definitely our Dune.
In the third chapter of the successful children’s franchise, Glen Powell appears briefly in a small role. The film boasts a cast all star, which includes the faces dearest to the cinema of Robert Rodriguez. Between these, Sylvester Stallone, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, George Clooney, Danny Trejo And Steve Buscemi. Recently, to close the circle, the Texan director included Powell in the Texas Film Hall of Fame of the Austin Film Society.
Continuing to remember his childhood, the star of Everyone except you mentioned the children’s reality show Moolah Beach, who offered him his first audition. Unfortunately the audition was not successful. He later joined the cast of the show Discovery Kids’ Endurance 2only to be cut off at the last moment.
It’s the most embarrassing thing that can happen to a high school freshman. Not only are you at the bottom of your class, but you simply failed at a feat of strength in front of the world, and the amount of s**t I received was extraordinary. [Il fallimento, ndr] it just made me ferocious.
As for the future, he added: “I want to make things that fill people, that highlight the idea and themes I believe in. I have that opportunity and I don’t take it lightly.” In this regard, the artist’s admission of having rejected the leading role in the reboot of Jurassic World. On the other hand, from May 30th Glen will arrive in our theaters with the action comedy Hit Man by Richard Linklater.
