Getting nude hasn’t been enough to squash the Glen Powell capybara meme because it still comes up frequently. While promoting “Anyone But You” with Sydney Sweeney on MTV UK, the capybara jokes came up again, with Powell jokingly asserting, “I’m going to get a capybara … Because then what happens is my capybara will become more Google-able. And then my meme is a thing of the past.” We’ll never know whether the capybara meme helped “Anyone But You” blow everyone away at the box office, but it’s become a fixture in many interviews since.
The capybara jokes would re-emerge for the promotion of Powell’s latest film, “Twisters,” with first reactions all saying the movie’s entertaining. But before getting entertained by the flick, people can laugh at Powell and co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones having a lot of fun at the meme’s expense. The two appeared on “Hot Ones Versus” to see how well they know each other, and Powell asked Edgar-Jones what animal he’d most want to be. Anyone chronically online could probably answer it, but Edgar-Jones says it must be a rat, to which Powell then explains that it would be a capybara based on the meme. The joke reemerges later in the piece when Edgar-Jones jokingly refers to Powell as a “capybara son of a gun.”
It’s nice to see Powell embrace his inner capybara at every turn. The only thing now is that the person who started the capybara Glen Powell meme in the first place wants some credit for kicking things off, as @koalarolls posted to X following the “Hot Ones Versus” appearance: “RUN ME MY CHECK GLEN!!! I WILL FIND YOU!!!”
