Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney are looking for their next steamy press tour
The Anyone But You stars would like to continue feeding the people (and the gossip mill) with a new project
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Just when it was starting to look like no one would ever challenge Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain as the most confusingly flirtatious not-a-couple to ever grace the red carpet, two new challengers (and a fresh wave of blind items) arose. Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell have been feeding the gossip mill over their rumored fling—one they staunchly deny—ever since the first set photos from Will Gluck’s Anyone But You dropped, and it doesn’t look like they’re intent on stopping any time soon.
“When you find somebody that you really jive with, Sydney is so easy to work with and so fun. We’re definitely trying to find the next thing,” Powell told Variety at the SAG Awards this past weekend, along with a request for writers to send the pair “all the scripts you got.”
“You know we’re here for it. It’s been really wonderful to read a lot,” he continued. “Sydney reads everything, by the way, and in record time. She’s the fastest reader I think I’ve ever met. It takes me a little longer, but we’re reading everything and just trying to see what makes sense, what we can turn into something that audiences are going to respond to.”
With or without the perfect script, they’re already old pros on that last part. Back in August, Sweeney laughed off speculation about her and her co-star’s red carpet chemistry, saying that their movie was a “rom-com… That’s what people want!” She was right. Anyone But You hit $200 million at the box office this weekend, officially rendering it the highest-grossing Shakespeare adaptation of all time. (The film is based on Much Ado About Nothing.) It’s also the only film based on the bard’s work to receive a Nathan Fielder parody promo, which is obviously a special height of success all in itself.
In the meantime, the two are both booked and busy. Sweeney has a number of films in the hopper, including a survival thriller called Eden and Catholic horror Immaculate, while Powell will next appear in Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters, out this summer. “The movie, just the texture of it, the fun of it, the world, it’s going to be a ride,” Powell said of the upcoming thriller. “It’s really good. It’s nuts.”
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powell will ACTUALLY next appear in hit man, which he co-wrote with director richard linklater and is fucking awesome.
Apparently Glen Powell was “Trader #1″ in The Dark Knight Rises. That would mark the only thing he’s been in that I’ve ever seen.Sydney Sweeney was “Little Girl” in an episode of Heroes. That would mark the only thing she’s been in that I’ve ever seen.
I think it must be weird to meet with an agent and have him be like, “You look like a handsome asshole, so we’re going to put you up for a lot of handsome asshole roles.” Then you go to an audition for The Dark Knight Rises, and get cast because you have a look that immediately screams Upper Crust Douchebag I Want Bane to Punch. Do you think that’s better or worse than the meeting where an actor like James Marsden is told he’s got a “Boring handsome guy who the girl leaves for someone else” look?
Marsden is a great comedy and character actor with leading actor looks.
It had to have been pretty weird for Alexandra Daddario, getting cast in The White Lotus as “preternaturally hot woman admitting to herself that her talent will never take her further as a writer than her looks will take her as a trophy wife” and then acting the shit out of the part.
He played “dime-store Chris Evans” in Top Gun Maverick.
Didn’t see it (never saw the first one, so didn’t go to the second)
Everyone should see EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!!, my favorite movie of this century.
Thank you for sharing.
Powell looks like Great Value Ryan Reynolds
Compelling story.
Is it possible the box office secret Hollywood has been missing is that it needs to become somehow more superficial? The success of Anyone But You suggests the answer is yes.
I too would enjoy the company of a woman who reads fast. Also washed hair is nice. I’d probably gift her a bag of oranges and everything.
Does she recite/act as fast as she reads tho?
When you find somebody that you really jive withI know I’ve already lost this particular linguistic battle, but the word he’s looking for here is “jibe,” meaning “to be in accord.”
I think he means jive, as in have a hip, formless, and possibly inauthentic conversation. He and Sydney just like to jive, Turkey!