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‘Twisters’ star Glen Powell: ‘Vast parts of America are underserved by Hollywood’
The Texan actor on Tom Cruise’s movie star masterclass, turning down Jurassic Park and the dark clouds gathering over the film industry
Powell treasures the big studio films of that era – “Jurassic Park, Independence Day, it was when summer blockbusters were at their best” – and says he wants to make “the same sort of movies with staying power, that tell stories about ordinary humans facing extraordinary odds”. His screen career began at the age of 13, with a minor role in the Austin-shot Spy Kids 3D – and while at high school, his mother, Cyndy, a former staffer at the Reagan White House, drove him 300 miles to audition for Denzel Washington. “I was losing battery power,” he says, “making 100, 300 bucks on a movie, just enough to survive.” His lowest ebb came during a “rough shoot” for a comedy called Sex Ed, in Florida: he came close to giving up, but had one last audition on his to-do list: a self-tape for The Expendables 3.
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