THE NEW Tom Cruise?

Why 'Hit Man' star Glen Powell is having more than a moment

- MARRISKA FERNANDES

Glen Powell’s parents trolled the actor on the red carpet at a special screening of “Hit Man” in Austin, Texas.

It’s undoubtedly the summer of Glen Powell.

Movie fans know it, studio executives know it. His parents know it too, despite trolling him on the red carpet at the Austin, Texas, premiere of “Hit Man” with signs reading, “Stop trying to make Glen Powell happen” and “It’s never gonna happen.”

But it is indeed happening.

“It’s so nice to have your family next to you for all this stuff,” the 35-year-old actor said in an interview the morning after the Austin premiere. “It’s been a pretty surreal year. You never know if you get to even have another acting job, much less have movies that people are responding to.”

After the actor’s scene-stealing turn as Hangman in 2022’s Tom Cruise blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” he delivered an ultra-appealing star turn alongside Sydney Sweeney in December’s “Anyone But You.” Later this summer, he takes the lead alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in the highly anticipated “Twisters,” an update of the 1996 disaster epic “Twister.”