Glen Powell Takes Backlash Over Cut Daisy Edgar-Jones “Twisters ”Kiss 'Very Personally': 'Shows People Care'

Powell said he is "delighted" by the online chatter about the deleted kiss scene, as it means to him that fans are "excited" about the film

• Glen Powell has addressed the backlash from fans surrounding the removal of a Twisters kiss scene with Daisy Edgar-Jones, saying "kiss or no kiss, everybody's a winner"

• Powell noted he believes "that [backlash] shows that people care, which is really great"

• In a July 20 interview with Collider, it was revealed that taking out the kiss from the final scene was due to a note from Steven Spielberg, with Edgar-Jones echoing that the removal “stops the film feeling too clichéd”

Glen Powell has taken the Twisters backlash around the deleted kiss scene with Daisy Edgar-Jones “very personally” and said that “kiss or no kiss, everybody's a winner.”

In an interview with Screen Rant on Aug. 14, Powell, 35, said he is "delighted" by the online chatter about the deleted kiss scene, as it shows him that fans are "excited" about the film

“I really think that even that [backlash] shows that people care, which is really great,” he said. “I just love how excited people have gotten about that movie, and Daisy and I send each other the TikToks and the gifs. There's so much funny stuff coming out of it. It's fun.”

In the 2024 sequel to the 1996 film – which was released in theaters July 19 – Edgar Jones' Cooper is a retired storm chaser who’s brought back into storm-chasing to test a groundbreaking tracking system, with her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos). Powell's character – a social media star –  ends up joining Kate and Javi’s efforts to chase the same storm with them.

At the end, Powell runs through the airport to catch up with Edgar Jones and they head off to chase more storms together. It was revealed after the film’s release that an alternative ending that included a kiss between the two stars was filmed, but ultimately scrapped and sparked the initial backlash and online discussion.

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Powell added that the jokes and online discussions around the missing moment are exactly “what summer movies are about.”

“It creates this conversation and cultural moment, and people dress up and do the thing,” he continued. “It's been really awesome.”

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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly on July 19, director Lee Isaac Chung explained that he “tried the kiss, and it was very polarizing,” and it didn’t have anything to do with the “performance of the kiss."

"This [no-kiss shot] was the other option that I had filmed on the day, and I got to say, 'I like it better. I think it's a better ending,' " he explained.

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Edgar-Jones, 26, added in that interview, "It felt nice and refreshing to not have to end up on that beat because what you're ending it on is two individuals who are so equal in their love and interest and intelligence and understanding of weather."

It was later revealed in a July 20 interview with Collider that taking out the kiss from the final scene was a note from Steven Spielberg.

Edgar-Jones said that the note “stops the film feeling too clichéd” and that the understanding that “this isn't the end of their story. They're united by their shared passion for something."

Powell agreed and added that the film "is not about them finding love."

"It's returning Kate to the thing that she loves, which is storm chasing,” he continued. “So that's what you have at the end of the movie. They share this thing, and her passion is reinvigorated, and her sense of home is reinvigorated. I feel like a kiss would be sort of unrepresentative of the right goal at the end of the movie.”

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