Glen Powell gets candid about the project he felt was “ruined” when he first saw the rough version.
The Hit Man the actor, 35, admitted during a recent appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast who “vomited in the bushes” after seeing himself as famous astronaut John Glenn in the 2016 historical drama. Hidden figures.
“I remember watching Hidden figures the first time on Fox … and that was before all the effects were done, the music, the sound design … and I literally left the movie and threw up in the bushes,” Powell said on the podcast episode, which aired Wednesday. May 22.
The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe as the real-life Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — three black mathematicians who had a major impact on NASA during the 1960s space race.
Said Powell in a podcast of his initial reaction to his own performance alongside Henson, 53, Spencer, 54, and Monáe, 38, “I thought, ‘All these women gave such great performances,’ and it’s like the legacy of that woman I said, ‘I literally ruined this movie.’ ”
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Glen Powell as John Glenn, Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan, Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson and Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson in Hidden figures (2016).
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Powell, who has a minor role in the film, also said, “It gets in your head. People forget that when you watch a rough cut of a movie, it’s probably like watching a video of yourself that you have to edit, right?”
The Anyone but you the star went on to say that “being awful in a movie about real people who need a real-life story” seems like “the most disgusting thing you can do as an actor.”
But luckily, “once the music gets inside [and] it’s starting to dress up a bit,” he realized that his presence in the film wasn’t as bad as he initially felt it was.
“We all want to be good — we all want to serve something greater — and nobody wants to be a weak point in a movie, especially when you’re talking about real-life stories,” Powell said.
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Glen Powell 2023.
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Now, more than seven years later, Powell is definitely in a solid position as an actor to the point where he knows if his presence in the film makes sense.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter released on Wednesday, May 22, the actor revealed that he turned down a potential role in the upcoming latest Jurassic World movie, despite the 1993 original Jurassic Park one of his “favorite movies”.
“It’s one of the things I’ve wanted to do my whole life,” Powell said, explaining the upcoming sequel starring Scarlett Johansson, “I’m not going to do that movie because I read the script and I was immediately like, my presence in this movie doesn’t help .”
“And the script is great. The movie is going to fucking kill. It’s not about that,” he explained Scream queens alum. “It’s about choosing where you make the audience happy and where you make yourself happy.”
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