Glen Powell Takes Backlash Over Cut Daisy Edgar-JonesTwistersKiss 'Very Personally': 'Shows People Care'

Mar. 15, 2025

Daisy Edgar-Jones (left) and Glen Powell in ‘Twisters’ (2024).Photo:Universal Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection

Universal Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection

Glen Powellhas taken theTwistersbacklash around the deleted kiss scene withDaisy Edgar-Jones“very personally” and said that “kiss or no kiss, everybody’s a winner.”

“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.”

Glenn Powell (left) and Daisy Edgar-Jones in Los Angeles on July 11, 2024.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty

VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty

In the 2024 sequel tothe 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.

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.”

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.In an interview withEntertainment Weeklyon 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.

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.”

Daisy Edgar-Jones (left), Anthony Ramos and Glen Powell in ‘Twisters’ (2024).Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

It was later revealed in a July 20 interview withColliderthat taking out the kiss from the final scene was a note fromSteven Spielberg.

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.”

source: people.com