Glen Powell thinks all the Paramount layoffs bear some responsibility for Running Man flop
The actor says that making that film left him "broken, physically and emotionally."
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Glen Powell has become one of the biggest actors of the 2020s, and it has come with plenty of hard times and exhaustion. This is a takeaway from a new profile on the actor in Esquire, which, like plenty of other features, highlights Powell’s work ethic and the countless hours he put into his career, from bit roles in the 2000s to the lead roles of more recent years. As such, it can’t help but sound like Powell feels a little let down by Paramount when it came time to promote The Running Man, an Edgar Wright-directed action flick that only grossed $69 million globally against a $110 million budget. “They let go of an entire marketing department a month before our movie came out in the middle of a merger,” Powell reflects to Esquire, remarking that the film left him “broken, physically and emotionally.”
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