It’s a Glenomenon: Why the Internet Is Crushing on Glen Powell

“Hot Glen Summer” this. “The Glenaissance” that. For everyone who’s joining Glen Powell’s online fandom—welcome. Although it’s been six years since he appeared in the romantic comedy Set It Up, capturing hearts and minds with a role that showed off his undeniable charm and introduced him as a legit Hollywood hunk, it seems the former child star is suddenly getting his flowers.Glen’s variety of celebrity isn’t new to Texans. We’ve seen it in Taylor Kitsch’s portrayal of Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights, a young Patrick Swayze in, well, anything, Twister star Bill Paxton, Jensen Ackles in Supernatural, and notably, Matthew McConaughey, a guy Glen is often compared to. It’s the quintessential frat boy (Sigma Phi Epsilon) type, who grew up in West Texas (almost true: Glen graduated from Austin’s Westwood High) and has…

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