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Glen Powell’s Charm Offensive Is Working
Will Twisters turn him into the next Tom Cruise? The truth is it doesn’t have to.
“The press has been attempting to crown Glen Powell the next big thing … for years,” Slate’s Sam Adams wrote after the film’s Netflix release, “but he’s never quite transcended.”) After a tepid opening weekend, Anyone But You became a sleeper hit thanks in part to fans on TikTok lip-syncing a Natasha Bedingfield song from the soundtrack. The nominal protagonist of Twisters is Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones), but Powell represents the film’s area of high pressure as the road-hogging, merch-selling, yee-hawing Tyler, who seeks out tornadoes with a ragtag team of bellowing misfits and shoots firecrackers into the funnel cloud. Powell was cast as local talent at the age of 13 in the Austin-based production of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over(2003) and did small movies and bit parts in Texas, including a brief appearance in Linklater’s Fast Food Nation(2006), before his Great Debaters(2007) director and co-star Washington helped him find an agent.
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