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So, Glen Powellhow was your year?

It was a fun thing to be able to ask Powell this very literal question this week Prestige junkie Podcast, calling from his London kitchen on a day off from set Edgar Wrightis the upcoming remake of The running man. Powell got a head start in 2024 when he opened the romantic comedy Everyone but you over the holidays last year and then never let up, headlining the summer blockbuster Twister as well as the clever, incredibly funny comedy killerwhich he also wrote together with the director Richard Linklater.

“It was really surreal,” Powell admits, with the kind of Texas understatement that made him a bona fide movie star. “You just never know how far this ride will take you, but it’s taking me a lot further than I thought. “It’s pretty cool.”

Powell, 36, is quick to correct anyone who might call him an overnight success. His first film role was in a Linklater film in 2006, a small role Fast Food Nationbut after that he worked in obscurity for almost a decade, taking tiny roles in films like The Dark Knight rises And The Consumables 3 and he tried to learn from big stars while watching them work. Breaking out as a star in his 30s means he has a healthy sense of what he wants from this company – and what the company might want from him.

“This job is kind of split in two: you have to outdo everyone and be persistent, but you also have to let go and realize that it’s a marathon, not a sprint,” Powell says. “If you really want to survive in this business, you have to treat people well, work hard, but you also know that there will be wins and losses. It’s a big sine wave. The faster the ascent, the faster the descent. You have to be able to kind of trust the ebb and flow of it all.”

killer based on a year 2001 Texas Monthly Article about a real man who posed as a hitman on behalf of the police. Linklater and Powell added humor to the story and a romance between Powell’s character and a woman (Adriatic Arjona) who tries to hire him to kill her husband. They shot the film independently before it was acquired by Netflix after its festival premiere in fall 2023, but getting there wasn’t exactly easy. When potential investors heard her pitch, Powell said, “They saw potential and wanted to do something different with it.”

Powell and Linklater looked at each other and wondered if She were the crazy ones because they thought they had something good and decided to go with their gut – another thing Powell could rely on after nearly 20 years in the business – and make the movie they wanted to make . “That’s one thing I’m taking with me as I look to my career,” Powell says about it killer Experience. “It’s easy, Do I want to see this movie? And if I want to see this movie, if I’m excited, there’s obviously an audience for it somewhere.”

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