Twisters star Glen Powell says he introduced his personal tornado experience to the upcoming catastrophe film. “I remember the fear.”

I don’t reside in tornado nation, so I’ve by no means skilled one, however they appear fairly horrifying. However, Twisters star Glen Powell does have a historical past with tornados, and he advised Total Film that he was capable of convey that experience to his function.

“It’s actually something I got to incorporate a little bit into the movie,” Powell mentioned. “I had an experience with this tornado in Jarrell, Texas. It was an F5 – one of many massive ones. It decimated Jarrell. I used to be outrunning it with my aunt Taffy, and a automobile filled with cousins. And I bear in mind us having to take shelter. It didn’t get shut sufficient to do any injury to us, however I bear in mind the concern of being on the street when, you already know, the largest possible one was form of coming by.“

Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung can be accustomed to tornados, and he advised Total Film that certainly one of his earliest reminiscences was residing in a trailer dwelling in Arkansas when his mother and father yelled that there was a tornado on the way in which. “We didn’t have any storm shelter,” he mentioned. “So we had been instantly searching for a spot the place we might disguise it out.“

Whenever I see experiences of tornados, hurricanes, or tropical storms wreaking havoc, I begin to marvel how folks can reside within the path of these pure disasters with out feeling consistently stressed. Then I remind myself that I reside in a province that’s on hearth for greater than half the 12 months. I assume we take care of it.

Glen Powell performs storm-chasing famous person Tyler Owens in Twisters and stars alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, who performs Kate Cooper, “a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Anthony Ramos) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better. As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.” The movie additionally stars Brandon Perea (Nope), Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nik Dodani (Atypical), Katy O’Brien (Love Lies Bleeding), and Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy).

While the sequel doesn’t have a giant connection to the unique movie, Powell has beforehand mentioned that it’s undoubtedly not a reboot. “We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one,” Powell mentioned. “It’s a completely original story. There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. It’s just its own standalone story in the modern-day.” Twisters will hit theaters on July nineteenth.