Glen Powell is looking back at the advice Tom Cruise gave him while they filmed Top Gun: Maverick.
The 34-year-old actor – who played bad boy naval aviator Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin in the Top Gun sequel – sat down with Kate Hudson during Variety‘s latest “Actors on Actors.”
During their chat, Glen shared the advice Tom, 60, gave him that helped him land the movie’s explosive ending.
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“Sometimes you can fall into the trap of wanting to be liked on camera,” Glen started. “And in a movie like this, where you know there’s going to be a lot of eyes on it, you don’t want to be Draco Malfoy.”
Glen then recalled Tom telling him, “For the ending to work, you have to completely lean into that. Everybody else in the movie is questioning their own ability. You’re the only guy that’s not questioning it. So if there’s any sort of apology in anything you say, the movie doesn’t work. Lean into the douchebaggery of it all.”
Glen starred in two big aviation movies in 2022 – Top Gun: Maverick and Devotion. Glen – who originally auditioned for Miles Teller’s role of Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in Maverick – said that Tom encouraged him to take on both projects.
“I found that [Devotion] book and developed that for five years, so when I missed out on the Rooster role, the conversation I had with Tom was, ‘Hey, I didn’t get this role, but I actually have a naval aviation movie I’ve been developing,” Glen recalled. “Maybe that’s just what I’m going to do.’”
“And he convinced me that there’s room for two,” Glen continued. “And I’m really happy, because everything I learned on Top Gun got to be infused into Devotion.”
If you missed it, Glen recently revealed the Christmas gift Tom sent him!
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