Glen Powell Asked Tom Cruise 'How To Survive' A Movie Like Running Man. All The Takeaways From His Hours

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…

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