Summary

Spy Kids 3 - D : Game Over , the third cinema in Robert Rodriguez ’s kids ' spy franchise , features a very youthful Glen Powell in a little role . The third installment intheSpy Kidsmovie franchisepremiered in 2003 , taking full advantage of the 3 - D craze at the time . The film sees Juni ( Daryl Sabara ) traveling into theTron - like practical reality world of " Game Over " where he competes against and with other agents and participant to beat the plot and save his sister , Carmen ( Alexa Vega ) , who has disappeared into the plot .

Spy Kids 3 - ergocalciferol : Game Overis fill with famous actors , some who had not yet reached the acme of fame they eventually would . Glen Powell is one of these actors , and his part inSpy Kids 3 - Dnow feels quaint compare to his adult career . Powell ’s calling has exploded since the mid-2010swhen he appeared inScream Queens . But it was n’t untilTop Gun : Maverickthat he became an A - leaning celebrity . He ’s since start on to become one of Hollywood ’s biggest young movie stars and his first film director , Robert Rodriguez , read he saw it from the first .

Glen Powell ’s career has featured some imposingly various carrying out , although some film have been more successful than others .

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Robert Rodriguez Cast Glen Powell As “Long-Fingered Boy” In Spy Kids 3-D

Powell Was Cast As A Local Hire While Living In Austin

InSpy Kids 3 - 500 , Glen Powell play a type known as " Long - Fingered male child " who seem when Juni arrives at Rebel Rockets . Juni is recognise by Powell ’s quality , who welcome him to the scene of action and instructs Juni on how to meet the Level 2 game . The 14 - class - old Powell was living in Austin , Texas when Rodriguez announce he was looking for local hire to labialize out the cast ofSpy Kids 3 - ergocalciferol , as filming was about to commence in Austin ( viaIndieWire ) .

It was Powell ’s first film role , and when the actor was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on May 15 , 2024 , his first manager grant him the award . During the red carpet , Rodriguez mouth withIndieWireabout what it was like meeting Powell for the first time ,

" I think distinctly how surprised I was [ by Powell ] because we ’d vomit a gang of multitude from L.A. And then to take out the other roles [ on Spy Kids 3 - D ] , we mould local actors who do n’t get as much experience as the one who are working in L.A. So you ’re just trying to find someone locally that wo n’t get skittish , that ’ll give a operation that variety of measures up to the other actors . He walks in with a height and his authority and just nail it . And I was just so surprised he was so full that I order by to him and his mamma afterwards , ' What are you planning on doing ? ' He goes , ' I ’m going all the way . I need to be an histrion , ' which was cool to get word from someone from Austin . "

Josh Hartnett looking shocked in Fight or Flight

It is a confident performance . For such a small case , he has a significant number of line , and Powell plays Long - Fingered Boy just like a young boy wound up on too many picture games . He ’s appropriately energized and unconcernedwith Juni ’s discomfort . Powell ’s having a bunch of fun in the function , probable because he had " one of the best daylight of my whole life " on lot , as he toldPeople ,

" I will never forget that minute . I was 13 . I shot my part , and then I hung out behind the television camera . The entire crew had the most interesting jobs on the major planet . You had endless friends on set . And Spy Kids 3 - 500 was arguably our Dune . "

Powell appears to have always been fascinated with films , going to movie camps as a kid , and thinking about films as ,

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" [ They were ] just this thing where it ’s like , the pleasure of picture . I desire to make thing that fill people up , that put the idea and themes out that I consider in . I have that shot and I do n’t take it softly . "

The young Glen Powell would surely be lofty of how the grownup Glen Powell ’s career in realise film that have brought magnanimous audiences a lot of joy .

There is no explanation in the film why Glen Powell ’s character is identify , " Long - Fingered Boy " .

Collage of Glen Powell in Anyone But You and Spy Kids 3D.

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Glen Powell Didn’t Have As Great An Experience On His First TV Show

Powell Appeared On The Survivor-like Series, Endurance

WithoutSpy Kids 3 - D , 2003 might have been a bummer of a year for Powell , consider his visual aspect on the reality rivalry showEndurance . Airing on the Discovery Kids channel , Endurancewas essentiallySurvivorfor stripling . alas , Powell was do away with from the time of year 2 premiere rivalry , " Desert " , which did n’t on the nose start the young actor ’s high schooltime year off on the right understructure :

" It ’s the most awkward thing that can find to a neophyte in gamy shoal . Not only are you the runt of the grade , but you just failed on a strength performance thing in front of the domain , and the amount of s— that I beat was extraordinary . "

However , Powell did not let that keep him down ,

Glen Powell talking to the camera on Endurance.

“ It made me just ferocious . "

He observe acting , and he kept getting better portion . Despite his recent success on the big screen door , it was the small screen , the same one that embarrass him onEndurance , that gave him his breakout withScream Queens . It ’s been a retentive road for Powell , and it ’s meet that it set out in his hometown withSpy Kids 3 - D.

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