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Powell recounted the humbling story during a recent appearance on \u201cHot Ones<\/a>.\u201d \u201cMy first week [in Hollywood], I found myself at a dinner sitting next to Dustin Hoffman,\u201d he recalled. \u201cHe saw a movie I did called \u2018The Great Debaters<\/a>,\u2019 and the fact that he saw this movie just blew my mind. I was like \u2018This is the coolest moment of my entire life.’\u201d<\/p>\n Hoffman complimented Powell<\/a> on his acting and said, \u201cI got something for you. Let\u2019s keep in touch.\u201d \u201cThe Graduate<\/a>\u201d actor followed through. \u201cLiterally a couple days later, I got a call at my house from Dustin Hoffman,\u201d says Powell. \u201cAnd I\u2019m losing my mind. I\u2019m like \u2018This is the coolest thing,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Glen Powell is known for his confident charisma and star power, but early in his career, he found himself so starstruck by Dustin Hoffman that he bombed a script reading with the legendary actor. Powell recounted the humbling story during a recent appearance on \u201cHot Ones.\u201d \u201cMy first week [in Hollywood], I found myself at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2159115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2159114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Glen-Powell-Recalls-Bombing-an-Early-Career-Script-Read-with-Dustin.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159116,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159114\/revisions\/2159116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}