Glen Powell has revealed that he was once “hit in the face” by a bouncer who failed to recognise him.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You star recalled his experience promoting The Expendables 3 at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
“I did this movie Expendables 3 – it’s like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, Jason Statham,” said Powell, who played hacker Thorn in the film. “Somehow I’m the ‘random’ guy that snuck in. So I’m like the only unknown person in a cast of legends.”
At Cannes that year, the cast promoted the film by driving “tanks down the Croisette” and draping “all these character banners” across the Carlton Hotel. However, despite all of the fanfare, the bouncer at the Expendables 3 party failed to recognise Powell.
“I got kicked out of the VIP section of the Expendables 3 party,” Powell recalled. “It actually got kind of physical.
“There was a large bouncer that was convinced that I shouldn’t be in the VIP section, so it kind of turned into a physical altercation where I got hit in the face at the Expendables 3 party, ‘cause no one recognised me even though there was a banner in the party of my face.”
Laughing, he added: “Just because you’ve got a banner doesn’t mean you’re getting in the party.”
Powell can next be seen in the action comedy Hit Man, in which he stars alongside Andor‘s Adria Arjona. The film follows a professional killer who breaks protocol to help a desperate woman trying to flee from her abusive husband.
Elsewhere, Powell and his Anyone But You co-star Sydney Sweeney recently revealed that they’re searching for a new project together.
The pair said they are actively looking through scripts to find another film for them to star alongside each other, after the runaway success of their recent romantic comedy.
Anyone But You surpassed the $200 million (£158 million) barrier at the worldwide box office, making it the first rom-com to hit those heights since 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians, and the first R-rated entry in the genre to make that much money since Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016.
