The Spy Kids Character You Likely Didn’t Realize Was Played By Glen Powell

In a new profile in The Hollywood Reporter, interview Lacey Rose brings up “Spy Kids” — which, as she points out, was directed by Glen Powell’s fellow Texas native Robert Rodriguez — but ultimately, Powell says that a Discovery series called “Endurance 2” is really what changed him. A competition show for kids loosely styled after “Survivor,” Powell says “Endurance 2” was incredibly difficult for him, to the point where he failed the physical challenge in the very first episode and was immediately eliminated.
“I mean, it’s the most embarrassing thing that can happen to a freshman in high school,” Powell recalls, noting that he wasn’t exactly in peak physical condition at the time. “Not only are you the runt of the grade, but you just failed on a strength performance thing in front of the world, and the amount of sh*t that I got was extraordinary,” Powell said before saying that the show inspired him to get in extremely good shape after the fact (as he put it, the thought process was “I’ll show them”).
“It made me just ferocious, like, ‘I’m going to become the strongest mother-f**ker ever,’ and weirdly more dialed-in in every aspect of my life,” Powell revealed. Apparently, that’s worked; nowadays, Powell’s roles are often pretty physical, and apparently, he can thank his loss on “Endurance 2.”