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  • ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Star Glen Powell Says ‘Scream Queens’ Season 2 Is ‘Damn Good’

    There are times when an actor on the verge of big things first steps into his moment, and Glen Powell has certainly stepped into his.

    Powell became an overnight sensation with his alternately cocky and clueless portrayal of the verbose, sexually indiscriminate frat boy Chad Radwell on executive producer Scream Queens,” a role he’ll be reprising in the show’s second season. And the actor followed up with a standout performance among the soon-to-be-all-star ensemble of filmmaker Richard Linklater‘s ’80s-era college comedy “Everybody Wants Some!!” as Finnegan, the centered, smooth-talking undergrad everyone wished they were in school.

    With “Everybody Wants Some!!” debuting on Blu-ray July 12th, Powell joined Moviefone for a look back at his game-changing year — AND, having just perused the early scripts for “Scream Queens” Season 2, he offers a hint of what he thinks may be an even superior set-up for the slasher series.

    Moviefone: You’ve known Richard Linklater a long time!

    Glen Powell: I knew Rick from “Fast Food Nation,” when I was like 14 or 15. Yeah … I was 15 years old! So I knew Rick from that, but we literally hadn’t kept in touch. We just kind of saw each other around Austin every once in a while. But I had to go through [a lot] — I felt like I definitely jumped through more hoops than anybody to get this gig. That’s for sure.

    But you know what? That’s the great part about Rick, is he’s all about performance. He doesn’t care about the resume. Most of these guys, it was their first movie ever. So it’s really nice when a director has such confidence in themselves that they don’t feel like they need to cast the flavor of the week, or who they can market, or who’s got an Instagram presence or whatever the hell that people do now.

    It’s that he just casts the right person for the role, which is how it should be, and that’s why I think Rick is obviously one of the best that’s every been. It’s because it’s all about the product on the screen. He doesn’t think like a marketing person, he thinks like a real auteur.

    When you see this movie, you do get that feeling of like, the cast of “Dazed and Confused,” or movies like “American Graffiti” and “Diner,” where everybody is going to have a nice long run in Hollywood. What was it like to be around that kind of energy, where everybody knew that this was a good moment in time for them?

    That’s what I kind of kept telling everybody. I’ve been doing this a long time — I’m still relatively a young pup, but what you start to realize — and actually Quinton [Johnson’s] walking in the room right now, and I’ve told him this a million times, this is his first movie — I said, “It’s all downhill from here. You’re going to do a lot of movies, and for the most part this is the best business to be in in the world, and the happiest you’ll ever see me is when I’m on a film set.” But I said, “This is something that’s really, really special, and just live in the moment.”

    Just like we were in the movie: “Just live in the moment and understand what it is, and that you are living the greatest period of your entire life. Because no matter how big of a film career you have, or however many franchises you star in or you become Tom Cruise or whoever, this is like the really special moment in time. There’s nobody in this movie that anybody recognizes right now. We’re all kind of unknowns, and we’re kind of in the same boat. This group of strangers that kind of got put together and kind of bonded to create something I think is going to stand the test of time.”

    As you said, you’ve been doing this for a while, but you’ve had this amazing sort of one-two punch with this movie and with “Scream Queens” in the last several months. What that’s meant to you, and how has that kind of propelled your career forward?

    Man, it’s been a nice change of pace! I think, when you move out to L.A., you’ve got to have confidence in what you do and your ability and whatnot, but you realize very, very quickly that it’s not up to you. That a lot of other people have to grant you the right to act. It’s really been a nice change of pace in terms of obviously getting the opportunity from Rick, and then the opportunity from Ryan [Murphy] to do this.

    Now, I’m getting to be in rooms with really amazing filmmakers that I’ve looked up to for a long time. Like I said, that’s the dream, and I don’t take it lightly. You’ve got to make the right decisions, and you’ve got to keep working with people that are your heroes, because just working for the sake of working doesn’t keep you around the club, and honestly, just because you’re there doesn’t mean you’re in the club forever. So you’ve got to keep the same amount of work ethic and do the same thing.

    But, I’ve got to say, I know exactly where I could be. I know more talented actors than me that are waiting tables right now. I know I could easily be waiting tables right now. So I really appreciate guys like Rick and guys like Ryan Murphy for taking shots on me.

    Ryan and Brad Falchuk and their team can definitely keep their actors in the dark, and I know you were told almost nothing about “Scream Queens” Season 2 by the time they announced you’d be returning. Have they shed any light on how you’re going to figure into the new scenario?

    It’s really funny: I literally just read the first two episodes on the train. It is fresh on the brain. I’ve got to say, what’s really crazy is I think this could be a better season. I really do!

    It feels very much like the sorority aspect of the Greek system was very fun and it has a certain amount of style and sex appeal to it that I thought was really, really fun. But I’ve got to say, this takes place at a hospital for like weird diseases and things like that. Where, inherently, terrible people that you saw in that other season, I feel like can thrive in an even better way.

    So it’s really, really fun. It’s really … it’s damn good. The only thing that was a little shocking is how naked Chad Radwell is, so I’m going to have to start cutting carbs and sugar and figure out how to do a crunch in the next month!

    That character could have easily been a one-off, and you certainly made the most of it. Are you creatively energized to be able to have a chance to take him to an even further level next time around?

    The cool part about a guy like Ryan Murphy is he gives you, just like Rick, a pretty long leash on being able to kind of collaborate on stuff, and have my input in terms of flavor. If I had ideas, there were a lot of ideas that actually incorporated, that I was, like, sitting in bed at night being like, “Oh!” and I’d text Ryan or text Brad and Ian [Brennan]. A lot of it, they were very, very generous in that regard.

    But I’ve got to say, there’s a certain amount of … you’ve got to figure out, just like making a sequel to these hit movies, they’re rebooting everything, you’ve got to figure out what people like. You want to obviously change the character in ways that creatively energize you, but you’ve got to still stick with the greatest hits. So that’s just the tightrope I guess you walk. I’ve never really done more than an episode of television, ever. So now I was on a show for a season, and now I’m going into Season 2. You just have to kind of figure out how to keep it fresh and fun, and still stick with the flavor that people dug before.

  • ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Star Tyler Hoechlin Can’t Wait to Play Superman

    2016 SWSW Portraits, March 15, 2016Tyler Hoechlin‘s trading in his ’80s mustache for a slightly more fashionable red cape. And maybe some bondage gear.

    After first making a major impression as a teen actor opposite no less than 7th Heaven,” Hoechlin later demonstrated his more mature skill set as alpha lycanthrope Derek Hale on MTV’s “Teen Wolf.”

    This year, the 28-year-old performer has emerged as a talent to keep an eye on, first with his role as the uber-competitive college baseball standout McReynolds in filmmaker Supergirl,” and his stint fleshing out the only-mentioned-in-the-books character Boyce Fox in the sexy sequel “Fifty Shades Darker.”

    With “Everybody Wants Some!!” making its Blu-ray debut on July 12th, Hoechlin chatted with Moviefone about how his career is moving faster than a speeding bullet.

    Moviefone: There are acting jobs, and then there are true experiences, and I imagine that “Everybody Wants Some!!” was an experience.

    Tyler Hoechlin: 100% an unbelievable experience and a dream job to the fullest extent!

    What was special for you to have the kind of time you had together, to create that sense that you are a group of guys who are establishing these bonds?

    Yeah, I think it was definitely the most important part of the process. I think we pretty much all agree on that. The timing is comfortable, and also I would say, Rick [Linklater] is the most creatively encouraging and inspiring person that I’ve worked with as far as a director goes. Just because … from the time we showed up, he made it really clear that it wasn’t a pressure in rehearsal to perform or to get it right.

    It was really a time to explore who these guys were, who they were to us, and then as a group, kind of find how they work together best. So that time was really invaluable, and it gets you past that comfort level where you are kind of questioning, “Can I insult this guy without offending him?” or “Can he take a joke?” You kind of get to know that about each other really quick. Everybody was just on that same page. So we all developed a really great rapport really quickly.

    With this much distance after the movie’s been finished, do you still feel a special kinship with these actors?

    Well, I live with one of them! [Laughs] One of them has become my roommate. We have a group text chain that goes off just about every day to every other day. Yeah, it’s still a really, really close group of guys. So that experience, as you said, has really kind of carried over which is definitely a rare thing that we’re all really grateful for.

    Richard Linklater is one of the most down-to-earth human beings anyone could encounter, and also a gifted artist. Having worked with him now, what’s your insight into why he’s such a great filmmaker in so many different genres?

    I think because of exactly that: I think he’s such a down-to-earth guy. He hasn’t lost any of that connection to just people and what people do and go through and how they experience life.

    One of the things we talked about with this film was, even though it’s 1980, you can kind of take that pressure away by saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Yeah, the clothes are going to be different, and some of the expressions will be different, the dance and the music will be different than it is now, but really growing up as a young guy and going through this time in your life, it’s really, it’s not all that different. We all kind of have those similar experiences.

    So the pressure to play 1980 was really gone. I think that’s why it comes off as genuine as it does. I think that’s why it happens in all of his films. I think he just … he finds people that also understand other people and can bring those experiences to the screen in a really honest and genuine way without really pressing the issue.

    So many cool things are happening in your career right now. Let’s start with Superman: I have a hunch that you’re just as excited to play Clark Kent as you are to play the Man of Steel on “Supergirl.”

    Oh, absolutely! Absolutely. I think it’s a part that you can’t really … it’s not complete without him. So I’m definitely excited to see both sides of him.

    What did it mean to get this great role, be the next in this legacy, and to figure out what you’re going to do to make it your own interpretation of this great American icon?

    It’s definitely incredibly humbling and flattering to even be given the chance to do it. And I think, I’m just going to do as much as I can to see how to bring the true spirit of the character to the show.

    I know they have instructed me not to talk about it too much before I actually get there and actually do it. I’m excited to just kind of look at it from doing it with a clean slate and not trying to replicate or duplicate anything that’s been done, but just being honest to the story and how they’re writing him.

    Did you take your workout up to 11?

    I have definitely been in the gym more than I have been in the last two years, yes! That’s definitely been happening.

    What was the exciting opportunity you saw in coming into the “Fifty Shades” movies? And was there anything daunting about joining that particular franchise?

    I think having been a part of something that has such a passionate fandom; it’s different in the fact that I’m going into something that already has that, as opposed to a show that kind of created it on its own from the beginning.

    Yeah, I love James Foley. “Glengarry Glen Ross” was one of my favorite movies. So the chance to go and work with James was a really great thing. He and I have talked about other projects as well, so it was a fun time to get up there and finally work with him.

    We’ll bring it back to “Everybody Wants Some!!” Give me the pros and cons of an ’80s mustache.

    The pros of the mustache: it’s definitely an ice breaker. It’s definitely a conversation starter. The con is that I got caught with it when I had to renew my passport, so it’s now my passport photo. Which makes going through customs quite interesting sometimes, depending on where I’m coming back from.

  • ‘Everybody Wants Some’ Trailer Is the Spiritual Cousin of ‘Dazed and Confused’

    Everybody Wants SomeRichard Linklater captured the essence of ’70s-era high school life with the classic “Dazed and Confused.” Now, he’s turning his unique perspective onto ’80s-era college life in “Everybody Wants Some,” which has been dubbed the “spiritual sequel” to his earlier movie.

    The first trailer definitely gives off the same relaxed, easygoing vibe. The movie follows college baseball players as they drink, smoke, party, and flirt their way through life. “This ain’t high school man. You’re at a new level here,” one player tells newbie Jake Bradley (Blake Jenner).


    “Everybody Wants Some” is essentially what a “Dazed and Confused” follow-up would be, if Linklater had followed those characters to college. You’ve got a lot of male camaraderie, the mood can best be described as “super chill,” and there’s pot smoking. Nobody could mistake this for anyone else’s film but Linklater.

    “Everybody Wants Some” premieres at SXSW in March, then opens in theaters April 15.

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