How Tom Cruise’s advice saved Glen Powell on The Running Man set

Glen Powell credits Tom Cruise for his life-saving advice, saying he owes his survival to the Mission Impossible star.

Appearing on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, the Anyone But You star shared that Cruise spent more than two hours on the phone preparing him for his upcoming action film, The Running Man.

“What I thought would be a ten-minute call lasted two and a half hours, he basically told me how not to die!” Powell joked.

The actor revealed that one of his toughest stunts involved abseiling down eight-storey building half naked in freezing weather.

“I had to abseil down eight-storey building in freezing conditions half naked and wearing a harness which cinched me – believe me nothing looked good," Powell recalled.

"The crazy thing I found out after, was that there was a guy whose only job was to stop me kicking a window – which means he was looking up my skirt all night – I wondered what he was seeing take after take!"

Moreover, Powell said Cruise didn’t just offer stunt tips he even gave him “running lessons.”

“He told me, ‘You should film yourself running because you don’t look as cool as you think you do,’ and he was so right,” Powell laughed.

Cruise, known for performing deadly stunts in Mission: Impossible, has openly praised Powell’s work in The Running Man, recently attending a screening with the cast and director Edgar Wright.

The Running Man is set to hit theaters November 14.