Overview

• Powell credits Pratt’s Star-Lord in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy with proving audiences would embrace leads who were more silly and buoyant.
• He contrasts that shift with an era favoring brooding archetypes, name-checking Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson as examples he didn’t fit.
• He describes Tom Cruise as an ongoing mentor who advises on career choices and on treating action roles as a physical job.
• Powell says he built functional muscle and performed most of his own stunts to play Ben Richards in The Running Man, directed by Edgar Wright.
• The Running Man is slated to hit theaters on November 14 via Paramount, marking Powell’s first solo action star vehicle after Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, Hit Man, and Twisters.