Glen Powell is no stranger to stunts. In the last few years, he's battled both natural disasters in Twisters and a love interest's abusive ex-husband in Hit Man. However, it was Top Gun: Maverick that best prepared him to take on the role of Ben Richards, a contestant in a deadly reality show, in Edgar Wright's new adaptation of Stephen King's The Running Man.
"I think I did learn on Top Gun what it takes to deliver something specific for the audience. Like, riding in the back of those planes a couple times a day, you are exhausted, but what you do is you put your head down and you focus for this finite amount of time, because you know it'll last on film forever," Powell tells GamesRadar+.
