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DEADLINE – There’s nothing better in baseball than a surprise grand slam, and this morning, Glen Powell got one in his first Golden Globe Nomination for Male Actor in a Comedy/Musical for the Netflix movie he produced and co-wrote, Hit Man.
Powell was in London for the shoot of his next movie, Edgar Wright’s The Running Man when his family –who literally has cameo roles in the Paramount title– “stormed” into his hotel room screaming with glee over the Globes news.
The movie, which world premiered at TIFF during the strike in 2023 where it was snapped up by the streamer, has been a passion project for Powell, his first learning about via Michael Costigan at Aggregate Films who turned the Top Gun 2 actor onto Skip Hollandsworth’s Texas Monthly piece about a humdrum professor who moonlights for the police department. He poses as a hitman. In the movie, he winds up falling in love with one of the cops’ women of interest. Powell suggested they take the idea to his former Fast Food Nation filmmaker, Richard Linklater, who is great with characters. Linklater was very acquainted with the real life story of Gary Johnson. Brad Pitt at one point wanted to play him, but a script couldn’t be cracked. Powell and Linklater found a way in.
“We figured out where fact and fiction were married by taking this idea, the fantasy of a hitman, the fantasy of ourselves,” Powell tells Deadline this morning.
Powell was just involved in co-adapting the title with Linklater, but was heavily involved test screenings, and rolled up his sleeves in shaping the film.
“What a wild crazy journey this has been,” breathed Powell this AM. Looking back he tells us that there were “an amount of times (Hitman) it fell part; but there was a collective feeling of who you can be, if you set your mind to it.”
Powell gave a special shoutout this morning to “the assistants at CAA” who he showed a first cut to.
“I hosted a screening at CAA, invited all the assistants to watch and they did comment cards. We did a Q&A afterwards. All the assistants were in the room and a lot of their notes made it into the movie.”
“They believed in the bold decisions in the movie; a lot of things that made some people nerviouse, they were excited about,” adds Powell on how CAA staffers were integral in solving first act problems, as well as pace and clarity.
After starring with his sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew in Running Man, Powell will stay in London through the spring when J.J. Abrams secret movie ramps up with Jenna Ortega. Powell says that as far as any description for the movie, “it’s classified! It can’t tell you anything!” All he says is “it’s really big, really fun.” A movie for the era.
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Read the full article at Sharp Magazine’s website .
Glen Powell is feeling unusually confident. It’s a Tuesday night in December 2007, and the young Texan actor is on the red carpet at the Cinerama Dome at the ArcLight cinema in Los Angeles for the premiere of the Denzel Washington–directed drama The Great Debaters, in which he has a small but juicy part as the Harvard debater Preston Whittington. Nobody is paying much attention to Powell, whose most prominent screen credit to date had been as “Long-Fingered Boy” in Spy Kids 3D. But Washington’s publicist eventually persuades a solitary camera crew to come his way.
“This guy’s in the movie,” the publicist tells the reporter, who seems skeptical that speaking to this beaming, bushy-haired teenager will be worthwhile. But Powell’s grin, so open and affable, is difficult to resist. “Okay,” the reporter replies warily. “I guess we’ll interview you.”
Powell speaks eagerly about having been cast by Washington on the strength of a live table read, about what it was like to shoot on the Harvard campus, about what he learned at the gruelling debate camp where he and other actors were sent to bone up before the shoot. The reporter, clearly running out of questions, rounds out the conversation with a softball, asking Powell if he has any resolutions for the new year. Powell, with a glint in his eye, doesn’t hesitate. “I want to be Denzel Washington,” he says.
This must have sounded outrageously brash, if not outright presumptuous, considering that at the time Powell had only barely begun the long and arduous process of proving himself in the entertainment business. But looking back on this moment now — and laughing at his show of mock bravado — even somebody as humble as Powell can admit that maybe his playful red carpet boast had been on to something. Between the stratospheric commercial success of the blockbuster disaster flick Twisters, the near-universal critical acclaim of the awards-season hopeful Hit Man, and the TikTok ubiquity of the future classic romcom Anyone But You, Powell has been decisively coronated as one of the biggest movie stars of his generation — the Denzel Washington, if you will, of a new era.
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and this is the first time where I can definitely feel a shift,” Powell says. “I got to have a really amazing year where I promoted Anyone But You and Hit Man and Twisters, three movies I’m incredibly proud of, and I feel really grateful for this moment. But right now, I’m just excited to get back into acting, which is where I feel the most like myself.”
He laughs, glancing out the window of the car that’s taking him to LaGuardia, where he’s set to fly to South Africa to continue shooting Huntington, the black comedy with Ed Harris and Margaret Qualley. He looks back my way. “And I’m excited to maybe not have to read a headline for a while, you know?”
Powell tells me that he had reason to feel confident that night on the red carpet in 2007. Only hours earlier, at a dinner with the cast and crew, Washington had introduced him to the legendary talent agent Ed Limato, who had urged Powell to seize this moment by giving up school and moving out to Los Angeles. If he was serious about this acting thing, Washington and Limato agreed, “Now is the time.”
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