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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Glen Powell Lost Sleep Over His Role in The Running Man All Thanks to Stephen King · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The actor Glenn Powell grew up as a massive Stephen
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  Speaker 2: King fan, so imagine the moment he found out he
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  Speaker 2: had the lead role in the new adaptation of his
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  Speaker 2: book The Running Man. There was a catch, so the
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  Speaker 2: job was his if and only if Stephen himself approved.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, but he found out that Stephen would
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  Speaker 3: be watching his movie hit Man before he made his
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  Speaker 3: decision that night, and he had to wait overnight to
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  Speaker 3: find out.
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  Speaker 1: That had to be torture for him. And he pretty
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  Speaker 1: much told a crowdit Comic Con that it was, calling
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  Speaker 1: it terrible. He was tossing and turning, hoping all night
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  Speaker 1: that his idol liked him.
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  Speaker 2: That had two good things going for him. Ay, hit Man
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  Speaker 2: is great, and he's awesome in it. Be it's Glenn.
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  Speaker 3: Powell, and as Glenn's a Stephen King guy, it's fitting
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  Speaker 3: that this version of The Running Man is a more
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  Speaker 3: faithful adaptation of the book than the nineteen eighty seven
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  Speaker 3: Schwarzenegger version.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to this one, The Running Man in theater
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  Speaker 2: is November fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.