Glen Powell, the breakout movie star of the 2020s, is griping to his delightfully sleazy manager. Glen Powell’s character is griping, rather. A country crooner whose career has gone sideways.
He’s pissed about having wasted a bunch of time writing a bunch of terrible songs with even worse collaborators. Too many whiskey dicks, pills, and prostitutes. In the lyrics or among the collaborators?
I can’t say—I’ve been sworn to secrecy. What I can tell you is that his manager, played by comedian Stavros Halkias, gives just as good right back. We’re in Savannah, in early June.
Powell is filming the country-music comedy The Comeback King, which comes out in February, with bromance auteur Judd Apatow. He’s laying his frustration on thick, but the mood in the room is light. Put your prostitutes before your pills and it all falls apart.
In a way, it seems pointless to be so precious. You know how Aaron Sorkin famously doesn’t allow any improvising with his carefully crafted dialogue? Apatow is the complete, diametric opposite.
Unrestrained creativity is the process. The goal: Make each other laugh. Powell and Apatow wrote the hard-R comedy together, but script is a very loose concept.
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