Everyone completely forgot about him, but 12 years before Top Gun, this famous actor starred in The Dark Knight Rises!

For several months, we have seen his face almost everywhere in the cinema. American actor Glenn Powell, who will soon be chasing tornadoes in the Twister remake and also starring in Richard Linklater’s next feature film, also shared a little air travel with Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick and flirted with Sidney Sweeney in the romantic comedy. Everything but you.

But before experiencing the rising popularity he enjoys today, Glenn Powell, like most of his fellow actors, had to gradually work his way up the ranks playing more secondary characters.

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12 years ago…

Seen in Expendables 3 and Shadow Figures, he also played a very small role 12 years ago in a major blockbuster: Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.

Indeed, even if few made the connection between him and the pilot of Top Gun, Glenn Powell at the time played a trader who had a very bad quarter-hour before Bane, in the sequence when the latter stormed the Gotham Stock Exchange. .

From Batman to Star Wars?

Around the age of 24 at the time, the actor has since continued his acting journey to reach the stage. Between the release of The Dark Knight Rises and his recent roles, he’s been turned down for other projects, as he recently revealed on the mic. British GQ.

Thus, Glenn Powell said that he almost worked again with Christopher Nolan and played the character of Ernest Lawrence instead of Josh Hartnett in the last Oppenheimer, but also that he was very close to wearing the jacket of Han Solo in the spin-off, dedicated to the famous smuggler from the Star Wars saga.

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