Glen Powell speaks about blowing his remaining audition to play Han Solo for Lucasfilm and his “wild take” on Batman.
Glen Powell could also be blowing up due to roles in High Gun: Maverick and Anybody However You, however like some other actor, he struggled on his option to the highest and misplaced out on some main roles, together with Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Whereas chatting with GQ UK, Glen Powell spoke of coming “agonizingly” near enjoying Han Solo, solely to drop the ball on the final second. “I can joke about it now,” he stated, “[but] I blew that final audition.” The position finally went to Alden Ehrenreich, however with Powell’s charisma, you’ll be able to see why Disney was all in favour of him within the first place. The actor additionally stated he screwed up auditions for Captain America and Cowboys & Aliens over time, however he’s accepted that it simply wasn’t meant to be.
“It’s haunting when you blow those moments,” Powell stated. “However that’s one of many elements of [the Hollywood myth] that’s not true. That was all the time anyone else’s experience to go on. You already know what I imply? It was by no means yours to go on. In case you put your time in, you’ll get your experience.“
Powell has expressed a disinterest in superhero roles; actually, he was one of many few younger actors in Hollywood who didn’t audition for the brand new Superman film. Nonetheless, he stated he was “on the set of Twisters with David Corenswet when he got the call. He’s a hustler and he deserves it.” That stated, he does have an curiosity within the Darkish Knight. “I was always a Batman guy,” Powell stated. “I would have a wild take on Batman. It definitely would not be like a Matt Reeves tone — it’d probably be closer to Keaton.” Even when Powell doesn’t get to play Batman sooner or later, he has appeared in a Batman film, getting his head smashed in by Bane in The Darkish Knight Rises.
The actor has various tasks on his slate, together with a remake of The Working Man with Edgar Wright, a reimagining of Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait, an unknown J.J. Abrams occasion movie, and High Gun 3.
Glen Powell will subsequent be seen in Twisters, enjoying storm-chasing celebrity Tyler Owens. He stars alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, who performs Kate Cooper, “a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Anthony Ramos) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better. As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.” The movie will hit theaters on July nineteenth.
