Glen Powell, Sydney Sweeney Want to Be the Next Romcom Power Couple
After the success of Anyone but You, which has earned nearly $200 million worldwide to date, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney are planning to re-team for their next romantic comedy. The move would attempt to put them in league with romcom power couples such as Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
At the red carpet of Sunday night’s SAG Awards, Powell told Variety that he and Sweeney were currently in the process of reading scripts to determine what their next big project will be.
“When you find somebody that you really jive with, Sydney is so easy to work with and so fun. We’re definitely trying to find the next thing,” Powell explained. “Please send us all the scripts you got. You know we’re here for it. It’s been really wonderful to read a lot.”
“Sydney reads everything, by the way, and in record time,” he gushed over his co-star. “She’s the fastest reader I think I’ve ever met. It takes me a little longer, but we’re reading everything and just trying to see what makes sense, what we can turn into something that audiences are going to respond to.”
In the meantime, Powell will appear in this summer’s blockbuster Twisters sequel. And Sweeney, who currently stars in Sony’s Madame Web (though she would probably prefer audiences forget), is leading the psychological horror film Immaculate, which premieres next month.
“[I] met with [Twisters director] Lee Isaac Chung and met with Daisy Edgar-Jones and had a great chemistry with Daisy and she’s sensational and we just have such a great vibe in this movie,” he said of the upcoming disaster film. “The movie, just the texture of it, the fun of it, the world, it’s going to be a ride. It’s really good. It’s nuts.”
Powell noted that the film has Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan’s visual effects and special effects team behind it and that they’re working with “best of the best.” “Everybody has to work together and we’re out in the middle of Oklahoma with big jet engines and wind machines and destroying towns,” he added. “The movie is going to be spectacular.”
