‘Devotion’ Stars Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell on Building Camaraderie in a Bathhouse: ‘In It With Me, Thick and Thin’
thewrap.comGlen, I know this project was kind of a passion project for you, so I was wondering how you first got involved and why this movie meant so much.Glen Powell: I ended up reading this book on a fishing trip with my family.
I remember after reading it, us all feeling the same sense of connection to the characters within the story. And my grandfather was a Korean War vet; that was also, I think, a feeling of hearing my grandfather talk about the Korean War.Films can add connection.
You see it. You feel it. And there was a thing when I was talking to my grandfather about the Korean War, I had no sense of grounding for that war and what it meant in his experience there.
And there’s something really incredible that movies can do, which is add an emotional connection for people generations away from a thing.
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