Glen Powell Promises 'One of the Most Incredible Action Sequences of All Time' in New Film

Glen Powell promises his upcoming movie Twisters will feature “one of the most incredible action sequences of all time.” Lee Isaac Chung’s late-era follow-up to 1996’s Twister stars Powell and Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones as storm chasers caught in the path of a particularly vicious tornado.

Powell and Edgar Jones, as well as co-stars Anthony Ramos and Brandon Perreira, sat down with Fandango’s Big Ticket to discuss the classic disaster movie’s wildly intense effects sequences.

“I would say there’s a sequence in the movie that I think is going to be one of the most incredible action sequences of all time,” Powell promised fans. “It all happens in a oner,” he explained, meaning the scene unfurls in a single, unbroken camera shot (or is edited to look as such).

“We shot that in December, with a rain machine,” Powell continued. “One of the coldest nights I’ve ever experienced, getting dragged across a pool by a wire.”

Powell added: “I think it was the most physical thing that I’ve ever done,” to which Edgar-Jones replied, “Oh, completely.”

“You’re talking about humans getting sucked up into a tornado,” he said of the sequence. “But you’re recreating what it’s like to be getting hit by debris and all that stuff. So you’re watching real stuntmen getting sucked up into the sky, you’re watching trucks move across [the field], you’re jumping into a pool and you’re getting dragged.”

Powell reflected that the stunt work he and the cast did on Twisters was not for the faint of heart. “It’s a fully physical experience,” he explained, “because the investment as an actor that you have to have is, like, it can’t be delicate.”

The Anyone But You actor said of his co-stars: “I think the cool part about this cast is that everyone's that invested. Everyone's willing to put their body on the line to do things that sell the movie, that sell the experience.”

Tickets are already on sale for Twisters, which hits cinemas on July 19. Reviews and fan reactions have yet to surface; but Chung previously directed the Oscar-nominated drama Minari, which bodes well for Twisters’ critical reception.

You can check out Fandango’s full Big Ticket episode below.