Glen Powell Reveals Which Muscles Sylvester Stallone Told Him to Work On & Who He Bombed a Script Read in Front Of During 'Hot Ones' Appearance

Glen Powell is taking on the spicy wings of death!

The 37-year-old Top Gun: Maverick actor appeared in the latest episode of Hot Ones with Sean Evans.

During the episode, Glen spoke about bombing a script read, a Hollywood legend telling him which muscles to focus on for the camera, doing his own stuns, and much more.

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On making sure The Running Man director Edgar Wright captured his face so the audience would know he did his own stunts:

“Edgar’s one of the great filmmakers. And he’s got all these shots like lined up. You know he’s been thinking about it for a long time. And I was like hey Edgar, I want to do all my stunts. I want to be, you know, all in camera. And there was this one stunt that I did where I literally threw myself off of a very high place and landed and it literally could’ve been anyone. And we did it over and over and I looked at the playback and I go dude, what the f–k man? Like I’m dying over here and I’m like just get my face at least. You know when you’re icing your body down the next day, you’re like I at least want the audience to know that I’m the one taking the hits. So, we came to a nice little compromise over the course of the movie.”

On bombing a script read for Dustin Hoffman:

“My first week, I found myself at a dinner sitting next to Dustin Hoffman. I was sitting next to him and he saw a movie I did called The Great Debaters. And the fact that he saw this movie just like blew my mind. I was like this is the coolest moment of my entire life. He said, you’re a good actor. I was like oh dude thank you. You know, he goes, I got something for you. He’s like, let’s keep in touch. So I literally a couple days later I get a call at my house from Dustin Hoffman. And I’m losing my mind. I’m like this is the coolest thing. He goes, I’m going to invite you to my office and I want you to read for something. And I’m like OK, great. And he goes alright, here are some pages, can we just read them out loud? And I started reading them, but I was so like in awe that Dustin Hoffman was sitting across from me. And then I was like, he’s one of my favorite actors of all time and I was like— but as I’m reading, I’m watching the life drain from his eyes being like this guy sucks so bad. And I was like oh no. And you can like feel like I’m watching him, I’m losing him. And then I’m being like yeah, you’re losing him and then I look back and I’m losing him even more. And I left so defeated. Right? What you start to realize is that all this business is play. You just like you start looking at these guys as like legends and then you start looking at them as collaborators who are just trying to make magic for audiences around the world. You know, I think that’s the difference. I think the excitement about this business hasn’t worn off, but I think my perspective has.”

On Sylvester Stallone telling him which muscles to focus on for the cameras:

“I mean, I have so many great stories from Expendables 3. You know, we shot that in Bulgaria like 10 years ago. He gave me this advice one time he was like ‘At the end of every day, you win or you lose.’ And I was like that is a hardcore way of viewing every day. But he’s a guy that just, he’s so headstrong. And I remember, when I was in the gym, you know, just like working my a– off, but like I’d never take my shirt off in this movie. You know I’m wearing like long sleeves. He’s like, ‘You’re doing it all wrong.’ And I’m like what? And he goes, ‘It’s the traps and the forearms.’ The cinema muscles. And it’s really true. You’re not taking your shirt off. He’s like just focus on the traps and the forearms. Just bulk those puppies out. You know? Stop wasting your time. Go have fun.”

On a real tornado showing up while filming Twisters:

“There was this one scene where Daisy Edgar-Jones and I are sitting on top of the truck, right? And we’re looking out over the horizon. And we’re having this— they’re kind of shooting long lens so they’re kind of far away. And we can kind of see the crew kind of stirring a bit and kind of getting a little uncomfortable. We can’t hear anybody. We’re so far away, we don’t know what’s going on. And then we turn around and we realize that there’s a tornado dropping behind us. So, we’re like apparently supposed to be looking at tornadoes into the distance, looking like the worst storm chasers ever…it’s right behind me, isn’t it?”

On Vince Young being his all-time favorite Texas Longhorns quarterback:

“When I was in high school. Vince Young 2005 national championship. SC was like at the top of their game. Reggie Bush, Leinart, was like this dynasty that couldn’t be beat. And VY just comes in and delivers that final play. And it was like in Austin, growing up in Austin, Texas, like Texas Longhorn fan. My grandparents went there. My parents went there. It was like one of the greatest moments of my whole life.”

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