The future was looking bright for Glen Powell in 2006 when he got cast alongside Denzel Washington in “The Great Debaters.” He did such an amazing job that Washington’s renowned agent, Ed Limato, decided to take the teen on as a client. It was Limato who later convinced him to give up his life in Austin — where he was attending the University of Texas — and move to Hollywood. However, Powell struggled to find work because he didn’t have the Edward Cullen look that was desired at the time. “I could just feel I was letting Ed down,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Sadly, Limato didn’t live to witness the rest of the world discovering what he saw in his client. When the agent died in 2010, Powell’s most recent role was a guest spot in a 2009 “CSI: Miami” episode. Of the loss, Powell recalled to Interview, “It went from really feeling like I had the town wired to, ‘Oh shoot, I’m all alone out here,’ Sandra Bullock in ‘Gravity’-style.” Powell felt like opportunities started slipping away from him after Limato’s death, telling The Hollywood Reporter, “It was almost like once he passed away, the jig was up.”
Powell’s career soon took another hard hit when his talent agency cut him loose, per The New York Times. It left him with a soul-crushing note about his acting ability: “Lucky to be cast as a dead body in a crime show.”
