Please note: This article contains a Twisted spoiler.
With Twisted off to a hot start at the box office, it’s time to talk about the chemistry between Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones. The two start out on rival storm-chasing teams, and the on-screen tension between their characters builds from the start of the film (in a good way!).
In the standalone sequel, Powell plays Tyler, a reckless tornado fighter, opposite Edgar-Jones’ Kate, a former storm chaser haunted by her past. But there is a big difference between their characters in Twisted and the characters from the original Twisted.
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Unlike Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt kissing (finally) at the end of the 1996 film, there is no liplock between Powell and Edgar-Jones. After a missed opportunity when they’re at Kate’s childhood home, it looks like they’re going to kiss in the last scene. No. Yahoo Entertainment spoke to the actors about how to make audiences anxious.
“I think what I love about this choice is that, in a way, it keeps the film from sinking into a kind of cliché,” Edgar-Jones said. “Like, I think these are real people, real hunters. And obviously we’re in an epic-scale cinematic world, but I think -”
Who has time to kiss?
“Exactly! They need to go after it, they have another storm on the way,” replied the British actress.
Powell joked that he “raised his hand” and was more than happy with an on-screen kiss, “but [Daisy] said no.”
“Anything but that!” Edgar-Jones joked.
“There’s always time for a kiss,” Powell joked.
Twisted actors Katy O’Brian, Brandon Perea and Sasha Lane, who are part of Tyler’s storm-chasing team in the film, were equally surprised that there was no kiss written into the script.
“I loved how they changed it,” Lane told Yahoo. “It was a vibe.”
“I was vibing with it too,” Perea added.
“It was different,” O’Brian agreed. “I think I was really surprised by it in the end. They kind of kept us guessing.”
Twisted It’s in theaters now.
