GQ recently spoke with Glen Powell about how Tom Cruise helped prepare him for his role in the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man. Powell explained that his character, Ben Richards, is described in the book as a tank, which inspired him to train extensively for the part.
“I knew that based on the Stephen King book, Ben Richards was a tank,” Powell said.
“I was like, ‘Okay, I got to be a bit of a weapon.’ And so that’s why I trained the way I trained on this. I put on a lot of muscle. A lot of it was functional. A lot of…
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