The press has been attempting to crown Glen Powell the next big thing—Hollywood’s new leading man, the latest addition to the A-list—for years, but he’s never quite transcended That Guy status: that guy from Everybody Wants Some!!, that guy from Set It Up. In Top Gun: Maverick, he nearly out-Cruised Tom Cruise, emerging as the heir apparent to his cocky charm despite the fact that the movie was constructed to pass the torch to a different actor. And in return, he was gifted access to a private screening of a six-hour “film school” video in which Cruise himself explains the finer points of filmmaking, right down to how different kinds of cameras work. It’s not clear whether that video also included instructions on how to become a movie star, but Powell’s latest movie, Hit Man, shows that he’s learned one of the most important lessons of Cruise’s career: You have to make it look hard.
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