Our interview with the star of Twisters and Anyone But You about his new Audible original podcast, The Best Man’s Ghostwriter.
Glen Powell’s megawatt smile, leading man charisma and that chiseled-by-the-gods jawline have made him one of Hollywood’s breakout stars of 2024. HIs increasingly well-honed ability to pick winning projects — including films like Anyone But You, Twisters, and Netflix’s Hit Man — hasn’t hurt, either.
Of course, even movie stars get a little creative wanderlust now and then, which is how Powell recently ended up in a climate-controlled audio booth after rounding up a bunch of his famous friends like Nicholas Braun and Ashley Park to co-star with him in a new Audible Original podcast. Powell is the producer and star of Audible’s newly released The Best Man’s Ghostwriter, a 10-episode comedy about a man who ghostwrites wedding speeches.
Because it’s an audio show, that also makes this one a rather unique addition to Powell’s increasingly hit-filled IMDb page: For his newest project, unlike with his hit movies, Powell’s aim is to literally get inside your head.
“I’m always down to try new things,” he told me in a Zoom interview, the same day that Twisters became available on VOD. “Especially when it comes to entertaining audiences.
“We’re in a time for humanity where it’s very hard to get people’s attention. Classic storytelling has to evolve, and what’s fascinating about this is — it’s interesting how being inside someone’s head just on an audio level, isolating that variable and telling stories with just that variable, it creates a new level of engagement.
