Glen Powell Details Awkward Moment He Refused a Photo With Canceled Actor: “His Face Is Toxic”

If you’re a canceled actor and attempt to take a photo with Glen Powell, he’ll quickly turn into The Running Man.

This awkward scenario recently happened to the Twisters star at party, as he detailed on the Therapuss With Jake Shane podcast.

“I was at a party and there was somebody [there] that had basically been on the ropes in terms of sort of getting canceled,” Powell said in the show’s Sept. 25 episode. “It was one of those Hollywood parties where there’s like cameras and press and all that stuff.”

Continued Powell: “This person had made some of my favorite movies and I was like, ‘Oh, this is great.’ He came up and he said, ‘Nice to meet you.’ I was like, ‘Oh, dude. Such a big fan.’ And then a photographer said, ‘Hey, can we take a picture of you guys.’

“This person was recently canceled and it was not good,” Powell said. “I was a fan of their work, but not a fan of their choices. So I was kind of just being nice.”

The other celebrity — whom Powell did not name — was apparently down for the photo.

“But then, when they wanted to take a picture with you, I realized very quickly — I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if this is a good idea.’ He clearly clocked that I was like, ‘Oh, this is probably not a good idea.’ And I realized that this guy, his face is toxic. Going out into the world, people are having a visceral reaction to this person in terms of the bad choice they’ve made.”

Powell then made a comparison between the actor and his Russ Holiday character in his Hulu sports comedy Chad Powers. In the show, Holiday gets low-key canceled due his behavior at a game and then signs with a different team under a new name to try and redeem himself.

“Russ Holiday is just a guy who made a mistake, he’s not a bad guy,” Powell said. “Some of these other people who get canceled, they should lie where they’re shot … In today’s day and age, cancel culture is just a thing where the world that doesn’t let you forget your mistakes. With phones, with TikTok, with Instagram, so many people make mistakes and the world doesn’t let you forget. And I found it to be interesting how people react to those moments. Do they double down, do they take accountability, do they believe in conspiracy theories? Just having a character learning to say, ‘I’m sorry,’ is a really beautiful thing.”

Chad Powers is currently airing on Hulu — check out The Hollywood Reporter‘s cover story on the Powell and the show — while Powell starring in an update of Stephen King’s The Running Man opens Nov. 14.