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Glen Powell addressed the net chatter surrounding a imaginable relation arsenic Tom Cruise’s replacement successful the Mission Impossible franchise. See what helium had to say.
By Tionah Lee Nov 13, 2024 1:56 PMTags
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Glen Powell isn’t moving to regenerate Tom Cruise successful Mission Impossible.
The 36-year-old histrion unopen down rumors that helium would beryllium stepping up (and possibly jumping disconnected buildings) if Tom ever hands implicit the reins of the iconic enactment role.
“My ma would ne'er fto maine bash that,” Glen joked to sports expert Pat McAfee connected Nov. 12. “That’s a decease trap.”
Tom, 62, has starred arsenic Ethan Hunt—the authorities operative known for his death-defying stunts—since the franchise premiered successful 1996. On Nov. 12, the teaser trailer dropped for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, which picks up wherever 2023’s Dead Reckoning near off. While the trailer didn’t springiness overmuch away, it does corroborate that the eighth, and rumored last movie of the franchise, sees Tom erstwhile again doing an awesome scope of stunts.
It’s a committedness Tom brings to a relation that Glen has seen first-hand erstwhile they played other each different successful Top Gun: Maverick. Following the film’s release, the net and Hollywood couldn’t get capable of their bromance.
Neither could the Anyone But You star, who dished astir the enslaved they built during filming, and the relation Tom has played arsenic his mentor.
“It’s the best,” Glen told E! News successful July. “He’s specified a large person and specified a large mentor and it’s been specified a peculiar portion of my life.”
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So erstwhile it comes to flying unneurotic erstwhile again on-screen successful different Top Gun film, Glen said he’s each for it, but it’s not his prime to make.
“That’s supra my wage grade, man.” Glen added to E! “I’m definite those conversations are happening, but you know, Maverick is astatine the caput of those.”
Glen besides credited Tom for showing him the ropes erstwhile it comes to moving connected large fund films, specified arsenic Twisters.
“Making that movie unneurotic was 1 that changed my life,” helium told E! News. “It truly taught maine a batch astir however to marque a large lawsuit movie and truthful galore of those lessons on Top Gun were enactment into Twisters and it truly benefitted.”
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