Glen Powell

1 sketch, 22 claims, and 3 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Rewatchables: ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan (guest)

A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI).

Stances

  • Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi
  • Hanks would have been a good Truman
  • Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope

Humor: Self-deprecating and showmanly: leans into Sonny Crockett and Miami Vice bits.

In their words

  • “I always try to think about what the universal emotion is” (0:05:42)
  • “My hot take is I do think this movie could have potentially been really good with Tom Hanks.” (1:03:45)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 1–22 of 22 claims.

  1. theme (theme): The Truman Show → The Running Man. Powell sees comps between being watched in Truman Show and his own film Running Man.
    “I really like there's a lot of comps between the Truman show and running man”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:51 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): The Truman Show → Peter Weir. The pairing of Weir and Carrey is what makes the film timeless despite earlier script and casting permutations.
    “something about Peter Weir and Jim Carrey and what they chose to do with it, you're like, that's timeless.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:25 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Glen Powell → Miami Vice (remake). Powell is rumored for Sonny Crockett; the room workshops his Florida and ponytail.
    “Sonny Crockett.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:21 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Twisters → Bill Paxton. Powell calls Twisters a seminal movie of his Texas upbringing and honors Paxton from the original.
    “Bill Paxton was such a, you know, he's a Texas film hall of fame guy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:36 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): The Truman Show → Peter Weir. Powell reads Weir's production design and hidden Easter eggs, like a Latin 'all for one, one for all' arch, as intentional and unforegrounded.
    “Peter Weir especially is just very good with production design and like the little Easter eggs”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:46 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): The Truman Show → Jury Duty. The TV show Jury Duty, with everyone in on it except one guy, is the modern Truman Show.
    “That's modern Truman show.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:43 · Glen Powell (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Glen Powell → Richard Linklater. Powell talks of teaming up with Linklater repeatedly and his baseball knowledge.
    “obviously Linklater is like a guy that will team up, you know, many times over”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:44 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. people (people): Richard Linklater → Glen Powell. Powell says Linklater is the director who first calls out a false performance and has the actor's back.
    “Linklater is the 1st guy that will call out bullshit on performance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:24 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): The Truman Show → Jim Carrey. Carrey and Weir knew to play off the weirdness comedically and move on so the audience would not marinate on it.
    “not let it not let it marinate too long because then the audience is going to marinate on it too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:07 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Powell prefers Truman and says Eternal Sunshine is an emotional premise while Truman is a higher tightrope for an actor.
    “I think Eternal Sunshine is a brilliant premise that's like a really emotionally driven premise.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:46 · Glen Powell (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. craft (craft): The Truman Show → Philip Glass. The triumphant score under Truman putting it together trains the audience to root for him rather than feel paranoid.
    “But I just thought it was a really brilliant musical cue because it trains the audience to root for him”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:41:40 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → The Sixth Sense. The film gives its premise away early; played as a Sixth Sense twist it would be a different thing.
    “if you just have it play like a 6th sense twist.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:10 · Glen Powell (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. what-if (what-if): Dennis Hopper → Tom Hanks. For the dad, a trusted face like Hanks or Hopper would make the storyline land emotionally.
    “like a Hanks or like a hopper, somebody that we've trusted before.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:09 · Glen Powell (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. what-if (what-if): The Truman Show → Tom Hanks. Powell's hot take: Hanks as an everyman realizing he represents something would make a different, more subtle movie.
    “My hot take is I do think this movie could have potentially been really good with Tom Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:45 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  15. what-if (what-if): The Truman Show → Tom Cruise. With Cruise it turns into Minority Report, a paranoid thriller; also a running scene over the bridge.
    “No, no, the thing with Cruz, it turns into the, you know, minority report.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:01 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → Minority Report. A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report.
    “you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70 sure it was them)
  17. verdict (verdict): The Truman Show → Peter Weir. Weir has the best Oscar case of the film's three nominations.
    “I think I actually think there was the best case for him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:30:43 · Glen Powell (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. programming (programming): The Truman Show → The Matrix. Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen.
    “The Matrix?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. lineage (lineage): The Running Man → Stephen King. The novel takes place in 2025 and bakes in deep fakes and reality TV blood lust.
    “The original running man book, Richard Bachman, a.k.a. Stephen King, wrote it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:38:42 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): Edgar Wright → Michael Bay. Hot Fuzz parrots Michael Bay shots, parallax and slow-mo shootouts.
    “you're kind of parroting, you know, uh, you know, Michael Bay shots”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:30 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  21. craft (craft): Edgar Wright → The Running Man. Powell says Wright let loose his action chops on Running Man after Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver.
    “getting to watch Edgar on this movie, like truly unleash and like take that weapon and just like send it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:51 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  22. people (people): Glen Powell → Tom Cruise. Powell leans on Cruise as a resource for stunts and how to sell an action movie.
    “there's very few people you can ask over the course of dime that have done it at a certain level.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:41:05 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–3 of 3 fun items.

  1. fun, about Glen Powell: Hosts movie nights at home, picking a film many haven't seen, debriefing like a Rewatchables.
    “I love hosting movie nights at my house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:09 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Truman Show: Powell translated the Latin on an arch in the bus scene as 'all for one, one for all', the kind of Easter egg Weir doesn't foreground.
    “And it says, it's, it translates to all for one, one for all.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:12:07 · Glen Powell (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Truman Show: The woman beside Giamatti (Chloe) is framed at pivotal moments but never speaks; Powell suspects a bad edit.
    “But she never says anything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:38 · Glen Powell (0.60 sure it was them)