Twisters Stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones

Glen, you had two personal connections to this movie. One, your family experienced a tornado when you were 9, and the other one was you got to talk with Bill Paxton about the original while working with him [on 2013’s “Red Wing”]. How did both of those experiences inform your work in this movie?

Powell: I was just talking to my mom about that F5 tornado I experienced when I was 9 years old with my aunt and car full of cousins. That was one of the first conversations that Daisy and I had when we started the movie. I think it was our first day meeting each other, and I was talking about the feeling of my aunt driving this car. It was the first time I saw my aunt so scared and out of control. As a kid, when you see an adult in that state, it kind of alters the chemistry of your brain and makes you go, “What are they afraid of? What is this thing that’s so unwieldy and scary that we all should be in this car?” [For] all my cousins, everybody, it was a very scary moment.

My mom reminded me, though, that there were other experiences with tornadoes as kids. One actually put a tree on top of our house, and I forgot about that moment as a kid. It blocked off our street. She also talked about that F5 tornado in general. When we were picking up after that tornado, one of the things was that everybody wanted … Sure, you can try to find pets or things like that, but really in those moments, we were trying to find people’s pictures. We were looking for family photos. As soon as you found a family photo, you’d stash it and bring it to a collective place where everybody could sort through them. Those are the things you can’t replace.

As a kid, to see the power of these things and what it can take, but also how a community rallies around to salvage things, was incredible. Bill was such a great guardian of that idea. He was such a generous person. In terms of the original “Twister,” his experience on that movie never left him. The way he looked up at the sky was enviable, and I feel like after this movie, we have that same sort of twinkle.

“Twisters” opens in theaters this Friday, July 19.

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