‘I Think It’s The Truest Piece Of Advice I’ve Ever Gotten.’ Denzel Washington Once Joked About Making Glen Powell’s Career. The Advice He Gave The Actor Was Spot On However.

‘I Think It’s The Truest Piece Of Advice I’ve Ever Gotten.’ Denzel Washington Once Joked About Making Glen Powell’s Career. The Advice He Gave The Actor Was Spot On However.

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For decades, Denzel Washington has been one of the world’s biggest movie stars. That’s why when a teenage Glen Powell worked with him on 2007’s The Great Debaters, it was a dream come true. Powell only had a small role in the film, but Washington still ended up hugely influencing his acting trajectory. The Oscar winner even joked that he made Powell’s career, considering the actor is now a bonafide movie star. This may not have been too much of an exaggeration, as Powell revealed the spot-on advice Washington once gave him.

The Twisters actor recently appeared on the Box Angeles podcast, where he opened up about getting his start in acting as a teen and what he learned during his early years as an actor. It became apparent that working with Denzel Washington (who also directed The Great Debaters) was a huge touchstone for the now-36-year-old. One piece of advice that Washington gave Powell emphasized the importance of focusing on his own journey rather than others:

Here’s the problem. It’s that you start sizing up people, you start sizing up people, I think you will start, even on accident, competing against them. Or trying to highlight attributes that they don’t have. …Denzel told me; he goes, ‘Never look in the other lanes.’ Right? You’re running your own race. Right? And I think it’s the truest piece of advice I’ve ever gotten.



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