This has been a dynamite year for Glen Powell . Between Anyone But You crushing at the box office following its release towards the end of December 2022 (and that included an extended version being released on Valentine’s Day ), Hit Man becoming one of the best movies on Netflix , and Twisters ’ arrival on the 2024 release schedule , the man’s profile has gotten a major boost, and that’s after he’d already had an eventful 2022 with Top Gun: Maverick and Devotion . In fact, one Hollywood producer has gone so far as to say that more people like Powell than fellow Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling, though Powell fired back at that claim with an A+ comment.
In an article from The Wrap about Glen Powell’s upcoming turn in the remake of Stephen King’s The Running Man , this unnamed producer described Powell as an “up-and-coming movie star in the sense that audiences now go to movies to see him,” and added that unlike “an actor like Ryan Gosling whose appeal is mostly limited to female audiences, Glen appeals to both females and males.” Powell responded to that claim on X (formerly known as Twitter) with this: Gosling is a legend. I’m just Glen.
See what he did there? One of the standout moments in last year’s Barbie was when Ryan Gosling’s Ken, a.k.a.
Beach Ken, belted out the song “I’m Just Ken,” which was written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. It was such a hit both in the movie and in the real world that it scored an Academy Award for Best Ori.