Glen Powell has come out to share an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction he experienced while shooting a particular scene for his latest dystopian action thriller, The Running Man. In a recent round-table discussion, which also featured Josh Brolin and Lee Pace, he disclosed one of the filming moments he’d like to forget, as it involved his crotch accidentally getting exposed to a bunch of people.
Glen Powell regrets ’embarrassing’ wardrobe mishap during filming
During his recent interview appearance, the Anyone But You star opened up about one of the stunts he performed for The Running Man, which left him more exposed than he had expected.
Referring to a scene in the movie that involves him “rappelling down the window,” Glen Powell explained on Entertainment Tonight’s Spilling the E-Tea that he was wearing only a little piece of clothing, something that looked like “a marble sack,” under the white towel.
“I’m wearing a pouch under, and then I’m wearing a towel around it,” Powell divulged before adding, “But then you’re rappelling down a building. And, you know, when you’re going down the building and you see a window, you don’t realize there’s people in there, like, lighting and doing electric.”
In response, Josh Brolin, Powell’s The Running Man co-star, jokingly stated that the crew would’ve been “watching [him] come down frontally” as he rappelled down the window. The MCU alum even spread his legs to imitate Powell’s posture in his compromised situation, drawing laughs from both of his co-stars.
In a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Golden Globe Award nominee once again mentioned the towel scene, albeit for a different reason. “I regretted agreeing to it,” Glen Powell noted, highlighting the harsh conditions he had to film the sequence in.
“I agreed to that scene in the summertime, and we shot that scene in February in Bulgaria on a rooftop. So being in a towel in front of a crew is one thing, but being in a towel in February in frigid Bulgaria, it’s a sight,” the Top Gun: Maverick star added.
Directed by Edgar Wright, The Running Man will arrive in US theaters on November 14, 2025.
