Since his breakout role in “Top Gun: Maverick,” Glen Powell has kept a busy schedule, even working double duty.
More recently, the actor's time has been split between filming and puppy training, he said. Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Monday.
Powell adopted his dog Brisket last year while on the set of the tornado thriller “Twisters,” which opens in theaters Friday. He was sitting in a coffee shop in Enid, Oklahoma, he said, when the idea came to him: “I don’t even know how to describe it — I just had the desire to be a father.”
After stumbling upon a photo of Brisket on Instagram, Powell took a weekend off from filming and flew to Los Angeles to pick up the pup.
“I was like, ‘Are you sure you want to get a puppy right now?’” recalled “Twisters” director Lee Isaac Chung. “But he did, and everyone loved that dog.”
Like most first-time parents, Powell said she didn't get much sleep when she brought Brisket back to Oklahoma; the pup, who was still in the crate, cried all night. But during the day, he was an angel.
“Brisket would fight with all the department heads and sit in my chair and sleep,” Powell said. “He became a kind of mascot for the movie.”
“Sets can be lonely places, and it’s interesting to see a dog that showers you with love, how that brings the cast together even more,” Powell continued. “Brisket has been amazing. I consider it the best special feature of ‘Twisters.’”
The breast has since then Attended the premiere in Los Angeles of “Twisters” and graced the covers of GQ and LITTLE EIGHT.
Now baptized as a father, Powell said Tuesday IndieWire The next goal is to finish his college degree while shooting his next film, “The Running Man.” The dystopian action film directed by Edgar Wright is a remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger cult film, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Powell attended the University of Texas at Austin for a year before moving to Los Angeles in 2008 at the suggestion of her agent. This fall, she said she will attend classes via Zoom from the set of “The Running Man” in London, and will visit the Texas campus a couple of times to take her exams.
“I think it's very important to my mom and it's more of an emotional thing for me,” Powell said. The Hollywood Reporter In May. “Plus, I’m so close I can taste it.”
“We love @glenpowell too and can’t wait to have him back on the Forty Acres. 🤘,” UT Austin wrote on X on Wednesday.
