Glen Powell car accident story
by Tufail: Glen Powell
Glen Powell shared that he was struck by a car for a movie scene that almost didn't make the final cut. He was working on "The Wendell Baker Story," which featured Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, and Kris Kristofferson. Powell played a paperboy in the film, and mentioned that Luke Wilson was involved in the incident.
Transcript (en)
Yeah, I remember I did this movie called The Wendell Baker Story, right? So it was Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Eva Mendez. It was like a great cast. Chris Christopherson. It was cool. And so I play this paper boy in the movie. And like I even I was like practicing like crazy to be like this stunt is basically I'm driving down the street. I have this kind of like combative relationship with Luke Wilson in the movie. And I basically throw a paper and like just fuck with him and like throw papers, right? at him. And so I practiced this like stunt around and he's supposed to hit me with his car, right? Bump me from behind. So I had this crazy day with Luke Wilson. This is like, this is like peak Luke Wilson post like, um, you know, post like, uh, what's the, what's the fraternity movie? Um, old school. So, so Luke Wilson did old school. It was like this, the peak Luke Wilson and Will Ferrell's in it. So I had this amazing day shooting with all these guys where I'm like, a like mega fan of all these guys. I like Luke ended up hitting me with his card. I flew over and I got all scraped up and the boys were like, you're the toughest guy ever. And they added a new scene with like us all improv-ing and it was like, great. And then I go to the premiere and I saw, I, I, we, it's, it's like the opening the movie and I like my whole family's there. And all of a sudden I watch it and I was like, well, it just came and went like, yeah, you're just like, it's like a flash of me and then it's gone. And I saw Luke afterwards and he was like, oh shoot he's like dude I'm I should have called you I'm so sorry I'm like dude it's all good it's all good I had a great day you know like you know hanging with the gang but again you just never know like and also it's not personal like I I realized after that experience like it would have slowed the movie down you're always trying to take time out of a movie you're trying to make it cook and sometimes you shoot these like improv things that just don't make it you know I've had you have roles that just get cut down but it's heartbreaking because you like especially when you're on your way up, like those little things, like you're, you're fighting for your, you know, you're fighting for seconds. Yeah.
