Glen Powell Shares How His Parents Play A Key Role In His On Screen Successes

Glen Powell

knows that the foundation of his growing success in Hollywood lies with one thing: His family.

The Texas-born star of

Top Gun: Maverick

and

Anyone But You

has called his family « the most fun family on the planet » and they seem to live up to the description.

During a recent

taping of the

Today

show

,  Powell was on hand to promote his new film


Twisters


(and to talk about his rescue pup

Brisket

) when he noticed two familiar faces in the crowd outside the studio—his parents.

Cyndy and Glen Powell Sr. were there to playfully troll their son. His mom held up a sign that read, “I changed Glen Powell’s diapers” while his father’s sign said, “

Glen Powell

is our force of nature,” playing off of the

Twisters

theme. When asked about them, Powell smiled.  « Yeah, I recognize both of these jokers, » he said, cracking a smile.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that his parents have teased their famous son. They also showed up at his

Hit Man

screening in May, per

Today

. When asked about their gleeful support for their son, Cyndy told

Today

, “We have big FOMO, so this is really, really fun for us.”

Powell clearly loves his parents and their playful sense of humor, too. “My family — always my mom and my dad — are known for kind of trolling me a bit,” Powell told

Entertainment Tonight

at a screening in Austin, Texas. There they carried signs that said, “Stop trying to make Glen Powell happen,” and another that read: “It’s never gonna happen. » Powell posed right in front of them.

« They thought that was going to be a funny idea so I loved it,” Powell said in an interview, adding, “Even though they troll me, they support me in every in every way.”

While they tease him, he clearly knows they are they for him, too. The actor told


Austin Weekly


that they have supported his dream of being an actor since he was a boy. Plus, they don’t just get to tease their son, they tend to get cameos in all of his movies, according to


Today


, including playing a pair of passengers on a plane in

Anyone But You

.

“I have a huge, rowdy Texas crew who gets me in all the right kinds of trouble,” Powell told


Nylon


back in 2014. “If you are lucky enough to meet them, you’ll figure out quickly why I’m constantly home and that all of my farfetched and seemingly impossible stories about my family are actually all true. »

Can we come to the Powell family Christmas?