Next month, Stephen King’s The Running Man will see its second film adaptation, this time starring Glen Powell as the titular man running for his life. It will be one of Powell’s biggest roles to date, as he's the solo lead of a big-screen action movie. So, when he needed advice on how to handle it all, he turned to a friend who knows a thing or two about being an action movie star, Tom Cruise.
In a profile for EW, Glen Powell says that he spent two and a half hours on a phone call with his Top Gun: Maverick co-star Tom Cruise so he could pick his brain on just how to make a movie like The Running Man. Like Cruise, Powell performed many of his own stunts, and his main question was a simple one. He asked…
