Though Glen Powell is now seemingly poised for bona fide movie stardom à la mentor Tom Cruise, it wasn’t always that way. The actor behind blockbusters Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters has been open about his struggle breaking into Hollywood, and one such lackluster experience was bombing an audition in front of two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman .

Powell recalled what happened to Hot Ones host Sean Evans during a recent press tour stop in support of his turn in The Running Man . When asked to describe the gap between his expectations and the reality of the acting scene in Los Angeles as a then-19-year-old, Powell recounted he met Hoffman at a dinner his first week in town and was delighted to know the Rain Man star had seen him in the Denzel Washington vehicle The Great

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