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When asked about the 'secret sauce' to his recent roles, Glen Powell explains his thought process. Joined by Topher Grace and Adria Arjona, he discusses why characters with secrets and lies at their core make for more interesting stories.
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00:00I'll give you the real answer is that I've known Glenn for a while we've never
00:03worked together and I came back and people were like what's the secret sauce
00:07you know what's and I was like oh he's a good actor you know what I mean like he
00:12wants to probably do lots of things instead of play the same role all the
00:16time and it's a good lesson for any actor to go is there something else you
00:20could be doing to kind of stretch and show the audience more and looking at
00:24some of your recent projects from Hitman, Running Man, Chad Powers and now this
00:28you tend to don a lot of disguises is that like on purpose are you trying the
00:33most meta professional career possible or you know what's really weird is I do I
00:38do find I don't know if you think you guys feel the same way but based on what
00:41you actually choose to like we're like oh that's a cool movie or like I like that
00:45part of it is like what do I what would I want to see and I always find that like
00:50I was like when characters are there's duality of them or they have a secret or
00:54whatever it is yeah it's fun that you have you in the audience are sharing
00:57something yeah like there's something fun I was fine like any great stories like
01:00you have a lie at the center of it it makes it inherently more interesting but
01:03I also think it's like an interesting psychological exercise like if I went
01:06back through your filmography and your filmography I bet you could find some
01:10common DNA of the characters that you decided to
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