Glen Powell’s rapid ascent from working actor to movie star constitutes one of Hollywood’s great charm offensives. Since positioning himself as his mentor Tom Cruise ’s heir apparent in 2022’s cinema-saving Top Gun: Maverick , the 37-year-old Texan has endeared himself to Gen Z rom-com fans in the sleeper hit Anyone But You and revived another dormant action franchise with Twisters . The best showcase to date for his versatility is Hit Man , the 2024 Richard Linklater crime comedy in which he plays a timid professor who is recruited by law enforcement to impersonate an assassin for hire. Not only is Powell equally compelling as the academic and as the increasingly slick and confident killer personas that character created; he also helped write and produce the film, wh

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