Glen Powell Says He 'Puked in the Bushes' After First Watching “Hidden Figures” Because He Thought He 'Ruined' It

"I was like, 'All these women put in these great performances,' and it's like, the legacy of these women,' " said Powell, who played astronaut John Glenn

Glen Powell is getting candid about a project he felt his performance "ruined" when watching a rough cut for the first time.

The Hit Man actor, 35, admitted during a recent appearance on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast that he "puked in the bushes" after seeing himself as famous astronaut John Glenn in the 2016 historical drama Hidden Figures.

"I remember watching Hidden Figures for the first time on the Fox lot ... and this was before all the effects were done, the music was in, the sound design ... and I literally left the movie and I puked in the bushes," said Powell on the podcast episode, which was released Wednesday, May 22.

The movie stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe as, respectively, the real-life Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — three Black mathematicians who made a major impact at NASA during the Space Race in the 1960s.

Said Powell on the podcast of his initial reaction to his own performance alongside Henson, 53, Spencer, 54, and Monáe, 38, "I was like, 'All these women put in these great performances,' and it's like, the legacy of these women. I was like, 'I literally ruined this movie.' "

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Powell, who has a smaller role in the film, also said, "It does get in your own head. People forget that when you're watching the rough cut of a movie, it's probably like watching the footage of yourself that you're having to edit, right? So you sit there and you're like, 'I hate myself.' "

The Anyone But You star went on to say that to "be terrible in a movie about real-life people that need a real-life story," to him, "feels like the most atrocious thing you can do as an actor."

But fortunately, "once the music gets in there [and] it starts being polished a little bit," he realized his presence in the film wasn't as bad as he'd initially felt it to be.

"We all want to be good — we all want to service something greater — and nobody wants to be the weak point in a movie, especially when you're talking about real-life stories," Powell said.

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Now, more than seven years later, Powell definitely has solid footing as an actor to the point where he knows whether his presence in a film makes sense.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday, May 22, the actor revealed he turned down a potential role in the upcoming newest Jurassic World film, despite the original 1993 Jurassic Park being one of his "favorite movies."

"It’s one of the things I’ve wanted to do my whole life," Powell said, explaining of the upcoming Scarlett Johansson-starring installment, "I’m not doing that movie because I read the script and I immediately was like, my presence in this movie doesn’t help it."

"And the script’s great. The movie’s going to f------ kill. It’s not about that," explained the Scream Queens alum. "It’s about choosing where you’re going to make an audience happy and where you’re going to make yourself happy."

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