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Glen Powell sat down on the set of his Hollywood Reporter cover shoot to reflect on his "Hollywood Firsts," from his first red carpet experience, the first time he stepped on a movie set and listening to Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten."

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00:00The first time I heard Natasha Bedingfield's Unwritten,

00:03I feel like it was like some shampoo commercial.

00:05Garnier Fructis, was it?

00:08That's what I'm talking about, Garnier Fructis.

00:10Obviously I know every word to that song now.

00:13Hey Hollywood Reporter, I'm Glenn Powell

00:15and I'm here to share my Hollywood firsts.

00:19First movie I saw that made me want to make movies

00:23was Jurassic Park.

00:25I did a project on it when I was in second grade

00:28and I became obsessed with Spielberg's use of practical effects.

00:30I studied the initial T-Rex interaction

00:33and they're doing it in the rain.

00:35That was like for me, I think like the true magic trick of movies.

00:38Like I felt like I was seeing a dinosaur for the first time.

00:41First audition I ever went on was for a reality show

00:45called Moolah Beach.

00:47It's like a kid survivor.

00:48They asked me, do you have any special talents?

00:50And I froze.

00:51I didn't have any special talents.

00:53So I just said, I can do voices.

00:55I was not on Moolah Beach.

00:58My first time I stepped on set was on Spy Kids 3D Game Over.

01:03And I will never forget that moment.

01:06I was 13, I think.

01:07And I shot my part and then I hung out behind camera

01:11and I was like talking to the camera guys

01:13and I was talking to the stunt guys

01:14and was trying to figure out what the chroma key green did.

01:18And the entire crew had the most interesting jobs on the planet.

01:21And you had endless friends on a set.

01:23I think the Spy Kids experience was really one of the best days of my whole life.

01:27Also, Spy Kids 3D was arguably Art Doon.

01:31The first time I was on a red carpet was for The Great Debaters.

01:36The Great Debaters was a movie that Denzel Washington directed.

01:39Great movie about the first African-American debate team that went and took on Harvard.

01:43That was my first Hollywood premiere and to be out with Sidney Poitier, Oprah Winfrey,

01:49Boris Whittaker, Denzel Washington.

01:50It was like an incredible experience.

01:52And one of those movies that I felt like really mattered.

01:55Right before that red carpet, Denzel and his agent, Ed Lomato, convinced me to move out to Los Angeles.

02:01I said, you're young and you should give this a shot.

02:03You should really take the plunge.

02:04It's been really worth it.

02:05My first crazy Hollywood altercation.

02:08So I did this movie, Expendables 3.

02:10It's like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, Jason Statham.

02:16Somehow, I'm the random guy that snuck in.

02:19So I'm like the only unknown person in a cast of legends.

02:23I'm in Cannes for the festival.

02:25We're driving tanks down the Quazette.

02:27They have all these character banners that are draped on the Carlton Hotel.

02:30The funniest part was I got kicked out of the VIP section of the Expendables 3 party.

02:38It actually got kind of physical.

02:40There was a large bouncer that was convinced that I shouldn't be in the VIP section.

02:46So it kind of turned into a physical altercation where I got hit in the face at the Expendables 3 party.

02:53Because no one recognized me, even though there was a banner in the party of my face.

02:58So, you know, just because you got a banner doesn't mean you're getting into the party.

03:02So the first time I heard Natasha Bedingfield's Unwritten.

03:05It would have probably been like high school for me as my guest.

03:08I feel like it was a like a Garnier Fructis commercial or something like that.

03:14I have sisters.

03:15I was very aware.

03:16I feel like I have it as Garnier Fructis.

03:18That's what they wash their hair with.

03:20And I feel like Natasha had something to do with that.

03:23Was it?

03:24That's what I'm talking about.

03:25Garnier Fructis.

03:28I was like, we're doing this every scene.

03:33And soon enough, the whole crew got into it.

03:35Everybody loved it.

03:36But man, rough start.

03:39First rom-com I watched.

03:40I remember seeing How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in the theater.

03:44Ooh, Legally Blonde.

03:45If we consider that a rom-com, that's my first rom-com I've ever seen.

03:49And the most quoted movie in my house growing up.

03:52I don't the stump of your last season Prada shoes of me, honey.

03:56You know, like that.

03:58The first time I flew by myself was a really special experience.

04:01My parents were in town for my birthday.

04:03And there's this really great tradition in aviation where the instructor rips the shirt

04:09literally off of your back and then writes the runway and signs it.

04:14When Tom Cruise told me that the first time, I thought he was messing with me.

04:17He's like, make sure you wear a shirt that you're okay with getting ripped.

04:19I'm like, why is it somebody ripping my shirt off after I fly?

04:23But my parents were in town and I got to fly the pattern and land by myself.

04:27And it was just like a really special experience.

04:29So they got to be there while my shirt got torn off when I taxied back into the hangar.

04:34And, you know, Top Gun's a movie that changed my life and aviation is a hobby that's changed

04:38my life.

04:40My first Longhorn experience, I mean, it would have been diapers.

04:44I mean, I was born and raised a Texan Longhorn.

04:47So my mom and dad went to Texas.

04:50My grandparents went to Texas.

04:52My aunts and uncles, my little sister went to Texas.

04:55So it's like I was born to be a Longhorn.

04:58Anyone that knows me knows I rep more Longhorn gear than is healthy.

05:02When I first moved out to LA, I remember they went through my closet and they're like,

05:05you have an obscene amount of burnt orange in here.

05:08And I was like, I take that as a compliment.

05:10I did not get rid of my burnt orange, even though they asked me to.

05:14Must have been like eight or nine.

05:16I was driving with my Aunt Taffy and she had a car full of all of the cousins.

05:23And we were almost a part of the Gerald, Texas tornado.

05:27And if anybody knows about the Gerald, Texas tornado, it's an F5,

05:30which is the biggest and largest tornado.

05:33And we had to take shelter in a, I think it was a carpet store or something like that.

05:38I remember looking at my aunt for guidance on how to feel.

05:42It's something you don't really forget.

05:44Obviously, as a Texas boy growing up to go on and make Twisters, it's a movie that,

05:48you know, as I watched as a kid, really had a big impact on me because it felt like a monster

05:52that was living in my backyard.

05:53So to make that again with Steven Spielberg, who I did my first school project on,

05:58it was all very full circle.

06:00For me, movies have always been my love language.

06:03It's like how I talk to my parents.

06:05Like it's what we talked about around the dinner table growing up.

06:08And it's like how I relate to people.

06:10It's like movie quotes.

06:11So it's like the connection I have with people really has so much to do with movies.

06:14You'll have kids come up and be like, oh, my God, I want to be an actor.

06:17Like, I want to do that.

06:18And you're like, yeah, that's how it happens.

06:20You see these seminal movies that change the way you think about the theatrical experience

06:26or change the way you think about what's possible on screen.

06:30Thanks for watching some of my Hollywood firsts.

06:33See you soon.

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