Summary

Collider’s Steve Weintaub talks with Glen Powell, Topher Grace, and Jessica Henwick for How to Make a Killing.

The trio plays a round of Get to Know You, where they answer a series of questions about their personal interests and careers.

In this interview, Powell discusses the role that changed him the most as a person and the most misunderstood aspect of moviemaking, Grace shares his epic personal collection, and Henwick reveals the role that was the most intimidating to take on.

Starring Glen Powell, A24’s new dark comedy, How to Make a Killing, is a gleeful, eat-the-rich romp with an A-list ensemble, written and directed by Emily the Criminal’s John Patton Ford. With the movie hitting theaters this weekend, Collider’s Steve Weintraub had the pleasure of sitting down with Powell and fellow stars Topher Grace and Jessica Henwick to chat. In the movie, Powell plays Becket Redfellow, a blue-collar guy who was disowned at birth by his extraordinarily rich family. Planes, yachts, “an island or two,” these simple luxuries were all out of reach for Becket as a child, but now, he’s all grown up, and he’s coming to collect. The only thing that stands in his way? Seven filthy rich estranged family members — a small price to pay for a $28 billion inheritance. How to Make a Killing also stars Margaret Qualley, Ed Harris, Bill Camp, and Zach Woods. In this interview, Powell, Grace, and Henwick play a round of Collider’s Get to Know You game, where we learn all about Grace’s unique personal collection (“possibly the coolest collection in the world”), the scene from her career that Henwick would go back and change if she could, and how Powell’s role in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! changed his perspective on life. The trio also shares their favorite movies by Christopher Nolan and Powell’s pick isn’t The Dark Knight Rises, even though he had a small role.
Topher Grace Shares His “Coolest Collection in the World”

The trio play Collider’s Get to Know You game!

Topher Grace in How to Make a KillingImage via A24

COLLIDER: I really want to start with congratulations on the movie. It’s excellent. I really think that John did an amazing job. For everyone watching, you should absolutely see this one in the theater. However, I really have something I want to address, and I’ve been doing this with a lot of people recently, which is Get to Know Your How to Make a Killing Cast Member. Don’t be afraid when I say this, but I have 40 questions in front of me, and each of you is going to pick a number, and we’re just going to go. Topher? TOPHER GRACE: Sixty-nine. GLEN POWELL: Always! [Laughs] Between one and 40. GRACE: I’m gonna go with six. Do you collect anything? GRACE: Well, yes. I have possibly the coolest collection in the world. Do you know this about me? Oh, I know this. GRACE: Okay. I collect fake movie posters. You know how everyone has movie posters? I collect prop movie posters. They’re movies that were inside of movies. JESSICA HENWICK: Oh, I love that! POWELL: Genius. GRACE: I know. I have Jaws 19, from Back to the Future. I have great ones. Drew Struzan did a King Lear one starring Schwarzenegger that was in Jurassic Park 2. These are kind of hard to find. There’s one from Inglourious Basterds. I have Merman from your friend’s movie. POWELL: No way! HENWICK: So you’re buying the real props, or you’re getting reprints of the props? GRACE: I am both scavenging… I’m basically just famous enough that if I call someone who worked on Get Shorty, they’re like, “Yeah, I have one in my garage,” or they’re printing one out. So, yes, that is my collection. POWELL: Bro, that is awesome. You know how in a production company, they always have, like, movie posters around? I just thought it’d be a great thing to have fake movie posters and see if people bullshit and say they’ve seen them. GRACE: [Laughs] I think that’s a good idea. I had people come into my office, and maybe one out of every 10 is like, “Oh my god!” And everyone else is like, “What are these movies?”
Glen Powell on Why He Loves ‘How to Make a Killing’

“Nobody’s overseeing what you’re doing.”

Please pick a number, 1–40. HENWICK: Oh, I’m going to pick nine. GRACE: [Laughs] Yeah! What project scared you the most before saying yes? HENWICK: Can he pick his number, and I’ll think about my answer? POWELL: Twenty-one. What do audiences misunderstand most about your job? POWELL: I think, for instance, we talked about this earlier, one of my favorite parts about this movie in particular is that you go to work and the job is almost like nobody’s overseeing what you’re doing, right? HENWICK: I am. I’m overseeing what you’re doing. GRACE: We got a lot of notes from Jessica. POWELL: Jessica is the only person that’s like, “Did you memorize your lines? Did you do your research?” But the job, mostly, is being a student in a vacuum, being naturally curious, and things like that. And the thing that I was so impressed with on this movie in particular is that the whole ensemble really was like the best students ever. Everybody came really prepared. But just because they pay you to do the job doesn’t mean a lot of people show up and actually give a shit. And this whole gang really gave a shit. That’s why the movie’s great and I’m proud of it. But it’s not a given that anybody will ride you on showing up and making any choices or doing any work ahead of time. It’s interesting. I’ve not heard that perspective, but it’s really interesting. It really is. I want to dive deep, but I don’t have time. HENWICK: I would say The Royal Hotel, just because the style of acting was so different than anything I done before. I remember, vividly, my first day. It’s literally a shot of me and Julia [Garner] in a car, no lines, looking out the window at the pub in the middle of the outback. I think I’m doing nothing, and Kitty [Green] comes in, and she’s like, “Less.” And we go again, and I’m like, “Okay?” And she’s like, “Less.” And we went five times, and I said, “Kitty, I’m literally just staring at it.” And she was like, “Do less.” It was quite terrifying. GRACE: That’s why you’re asleep in that scene.

Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick in ‘The Royal Hotel’Image via TIFF

Another number, please. GRACE: Ten. What role told you the most about yourself? GRACE: Oh, whoa. I mean, that’s kind of a great question. For me, it would have to be That 70s Show. You were on that? GRACE: [Laughs] Yes. I was one of the kids. You know, it’s funny, I think about Boyhood sometimes, [to Powell] and your buddy did an incredible job with that film, but doing a sitcom is almost like that in that you’re spending eight years, and it’s documented, and you’re learning over that time. So, I mean, you can’t learn more than by spending that much time doing something. HENWICK: Twenty-six. If you could redo one scene from your career, what would it be? POWELL: Whoo! That’s a good one. HENWICK: Okay, I’m gonna have to think again. You pick your number. GRACE: Can I choose for you? Yeah. HENWICK: [Laughs] Yeah, yeah, yeah. “I really didn’t like it in that film…” POWELL: I want to go 33.

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‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Left a Lasting Impact on Glen Powell

“As a kid, I was really shy.”

Glen Powell and Forest Vickery with mustaches in polo shirts in Everybody Wants Some!!Image via Annapurna Pictures

Is there a character you’ve played that stuck with you longer than expected? POWELL: You know, we’re coming up on the 10-year anniversary of Everybody Wants Some!!, to give Link some more lovin’. I remember all the guys getting together, because Richard Linklater kind of gave everybody a very long leash to create what they wanted to create, and that role was always good on the page, but we really got to create all of it ourselves for the most part, and Rick would just dial in to what was making people special. And I remember the nature of how that character, Finn, Finnegan, in that movie, would sort of sing his way through life and kind of be shameless about talking to people and being the first on the dance floor and all that stuff, and as a kid, I was really shy. The only time you’d really see me come out of my shell was between action and cut. That one was a great reminder. It’s really like a lot of the elements Rick and I talked about with Hit Man, the idea of the performative nature of being like, “I actually want to be more like that,” and just by putting the boots on of that person or starting to do that kind of stuff, it actually changes who you are and can actually cause you to engage with the world in a different way. So, I just loved that idea. But that character, I was like, “Oh, by just pretending…” I love the way Finnegan moves through life. It’s not who I am, but you can kind of learn from characters, for sure. HENWICK: I would reshoot my first day on Iron Fist. My first day was my first scene in the show, and I had to both speak in an American accent and then also speak Chinese, and I cringe thinking back to how that turned out. I’m really surprised I have not got flack for how bad I was in that. POWELL: Well, it’s about to happen right… now. HENWICK: [Laughs] Cue tape!

Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing holding a glowing white sword in Iron Fist Season 2.Image via Netflix

This is actually a question I’ve been asking of everybody recently that I’ve been interviewing. It’s not on this list, but for each of you, do you have a favorite Chris Nolan movie and a favorite Steven Spielberg film?

POWELL: Oh, good question. GRACE: Because I just had to answer this at Sundance, I’m going to go ahead and talk about Richard Linklater, because I know you’re good buddies and you’re wearing a Before Sunrise T-shirt. But just to be clear, Linklater is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. He is a fucking genius. GRACE: Well, I don’t like him, and I’ll tell you why: he’s never put me in anything. POWELL: And that was on purpose. GRACE: I remember listening to Ethan Hawke on a podcast, who’s an amazing interview, talk about how he saw Dazed and Confused and then met him and was like, “I’m in the wrong universe that we haven’t worked together.” And some of the stuff you guys have done together, it’s just so good. I mean, he’s still top of his game. He’s a genius. POWELL: Ethan Hawke actually gave me one of my first jobs. HENWICK: Really? POWELL: He directed me in a movie called The Hottest State, which is a book he wrote. So, I got to drive a Barracuda and try to pick girls up and go to Dallas, and I was, like, 15 years old. And I still see Ethan all the time. We text all the time. He’s great, and I’m just so happy with the run he’s on. He’s getting his due.

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He’s amazing. I have to wrap it. Do you have quick answers for Nolan and Spielberg? POWELL: I’m going to go E.T. That movie gets me every time. And then with Chris Nolan… HENWICK: Inception. Memento. POWELL: Those are great. Dunkirk. HENWICK: Wow! That’s your favorite Nolan? POWELL: Yeah. HENWICK: Wow. How to Make a Killing is in theaters now.

Release Date

February 20, 2026

Runtime

108 Minutes

Director

John Patton Ford

Writers

John Patton Ford

Producers

Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin