Who Is Glen Powell: All about Everyone’s New Favorite Hollywood Hunk
Move over Tom Cruise and Bill Paxton. There is a new twister-chasing, plane-flying hunk in Hollywood. His name is Glen Powell, and we promise he is as handsome and charming as everyone hoped. Born on October 21, 1988, in Austin, Texas the actor began his career in the 2003 film Spy Kids 3: Game Over and has continued to shine ever since. To celebrate that and his astonishing good looks, we decided to round up the seven best Glen Powell movies and TV shows — enjoy them all!
Glen Powell in Scream Queens
moviestillsdb.com
SYNOPSIS: After a series of murders take place at Wallace University a group of sorority girls must band together to solve the case.
CHARACTER: Chad Radwell
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2015 to 2016
ACTORS THOUGHTS: “It gets very dark and twisted, but it’s got that weird campy element to it. It’s really dark but really fun.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Apple TV.
Glen Powell in Hidden Figures
IMDB
SYNOPSIS: A group of African American women defy the odds by working with NASA to help launch an astronaut into orbit.
CHARACTER: John Glenn
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2016
ACTORS THOUGHTS: “I remember watching it for the first time on the Fox lot….and I puked in the bushes. I thought I ruined this movie. I was like, ‘All these women put in these great performances’, and it’s the legacy of these women. I was like, ‘I literally ruined this movie’. I literally walked out; I was like, ‘Oh my god’, It feels like the most atrocious thing you can do as an actor is just be terrible in a movie about real-life people that need a real-life story.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Disney+.
Glen Powell in Set it Up
moviestillsdb.com
SYNOPSIS: Two overworked assistants try to make their horrible bosses fall in love.
CHARACTER: Charlie
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2018
ACTORS THOUGHTS: “Zoey [Deutch] and I worked together on Everyone Wants Some and just had a fricken blast on that, and when this thing came around it was just a no-brainer. We just had a blast making this movie, and I think the chemistry is there.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Netflix.
Glen Powell in Top Gun: Maverick
moviestillsdb.com
SYNOPSIS: Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) finds himself training a group of Top Gun graduates for a special op that no pilot alive has ever seen before.
CHARACTER: Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2022
ACTORS THOUGHTS: The character of Hangman was originally written very differently, with Powell remembering “I said, ‘If I were editing this movie, I would cut him out immediately.” The actor then met with Cruise and reworked it saying “I said my piece to Tom about what I do and what I do well, and he listened. Tom’s a listener. He listens to the crew members, he listens to his collaborators, and he hears people.”
WHERE TO STREAM: MGM+.
Glen Powell in Hit Man
moviestillsdb.com
SYNOPSIS: A hitman finds himself falling in love with a woman who hired him to kill her husband.
CHARACTER: Gary Johnson
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2023
ACTORS THOUGHTS: Powell’s dad has a cameo in this movie, with the actor telling his father “It’s been a great journey that we’ve gotten to do together and I think that’s the best part about this. Obviously I’ve loved making movies since I was a kid, but to get to do [it] with you guys has made it very, very special. Love you, buddy.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Netflix.
Glen Powell in Anyone But You
moviestillsdb.com
SYNOPSIS: Two people who hate each other pretend to date so their loved ones' wedding can go off without a hitch.
CHARACTER: Ben
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2023
ACTORS THOUGHTS: “The two things that you have to sell a rom-com are fun and chemistry. Sydney [Sweeney] and I have a ton of fun together, and we have a ton of effortless chemistry. That’s people wanting what’s on the screen off the screen, and sometimes you just have to lean into it a bit — and it worked wonderfully. Sydney is very smart.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Netflix.
Glen Powell in Twisters
moviestillsdb.com
SYNOPSIS: Two storm chasers team up and find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple tornadoes in central Oklahoma and must fight for their lives.
CHARACTER: Tyler Owens
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2024
ACTORS THOUGHTS: “As an actor, sometimes you have to shoot outdoors, and you’re kind of squinting and whatnot, and he taught me this trick that if you close your eyes and you look up at the sun, it warms your eyes up to the sun and you can open your eyes. While we were shooting Twisters, I was shooting outdoors the whole time, so I’d used that trick my entire career since meeting Bill [Paxton]. And on Twisters, I really felt like every time I closed my eyes, I got to think of Bill, which was great.”
WHERE TO STREAM: Twisters is currently unavailable for streaming as it is currently playing in theaters worldwide.
For more of our celebrity coverage, keep scrolling!
Ray Liotta Young: A Look Back at His Early Days
