Glen Powell Says Looking Down on Rom-Coms Is ‘Kind of Silly’ as ‘Anyone But You’ Hits $100 Million, Teases Fun ‘Top Gun 3’ Stuff ‘Being Announced Soon’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Glen Powell and his “Hit Man” co-writer and director Richard Linklater stopped by the Variety Studio presented by Audible at the Sundance Film Festival, where Powell celebrated his role in reviving the romantic-comedy genre. “Anyone But You,” his Sony-backed rom-com with Sydney Sweeney, has earned $64 million at the domestic box office and crossed the $100 million mark worldwide.
It’s a huge win for the $25 million movie at a time when many people were writing off the genre as dead. “At least for me, I’ve always been a fan of movies in general and I always find it silly when certain actors diminish certain genres,” Powell said. “At its best execution, it gives an audience such joy and such fun, and as an actor you do get to play a lot of gears.
To kind of scoff at a genre and look down on it is kind of silly.” “For me, ‘Anyone But You’ was such a treat to see audiences dance out of the theater and feel so happy after watching a movie,” he continued. “To see the box office not just stick but grow has been such a cool lesson that sometimes the genres that have been forgotten are the ones audiences are craving the most.” “Hit Man” is another Powell-led spin on the romantic comedy.
Based on a true story, it stars Powell as a Houston police officer who poses as a hitman to arrest people trying to hire him.
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