Glen Powell’s Dog Brisket Once Escaped on a Flight — and Cuddled with All Its Passengers (Exclusive)

Glen Powell’s dog can get away with a lot. As the actor says, “There are rules, and there are Brisket’s rules.”

Brisket, a poodle-terrier mix who “just turned a year old,” Powell, 35, tells PEOPLE, “has the best personality. He’s so funny.”

Partly because he’s “such a well-behaved dog” and partly because he’s “tiny,” Powell adds, “I’ll just put him in my shirt” when he’s on the move.

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“Recently I fell asleep on a plane. I traveled a lot,” recalls the Anyone but you star. “So I’ve been passing out, but Brisket doesn’t like it when I close his carrier under the seat, so I’ll usually let his little head pop out, or just be on my lap.”

Glen Powell and Brisket.

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On a recent commercial flight, Powell continues, “He came out of the carrier, I woke up, and Brisket was gone.”

But before he could panic – “How do you lose a dog on a plane?” — he found out that the dog was cuddling with new friends. “The whole plane was just hugging Brisket in the back and they were in love with him. There were children who played with him.”

Powell adopted Brisket with the help of the Labelle Foundation, a Los Angeles animal shelter dedicated to helping rescued pets find loving families. “The world is rude out here, so I thought it was about time I hired a real bodyguard,” Powell captioned a July 2023 Instagram post with photos of the tiny dog, whom he called “1.5 pounds of raw power.”

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Glen Powell in the movie ‘Hit Man’.

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Since then, Top Gun: Maverick the star is practically inseparable from his canine companion. “Anyone can be a dog dad, but I really feel like I take him everywhere, so there really are so many co-parents,” Powell says. During the filming of the upcoming disaster movie Twisters (in theaters July 19), “every department took care of Brisket,” from the crew to actress Daisy Edgar-Jones.

“At this point, he has been to every corner of the planet and nothing worries him,” he adds. “He brings so much joy to everyone.”

Besides that TwistersPowell stars with Adria Arjona in the action novel Hit Man (now in theaters and streaming on Netflix June 7), which he co-wrote with Richard Linklater.

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