Glen Powell will be 'zooming in for classes' to finish his degree while filming The Running Man

School is back in session for Glen Powell — and this time, it’s not the Tom Cruise School of Movie Stardom.

In fact, the Twisters star, 35, is putting California in his rearview to return home to Austin, Texas, where he plans to finally complete a degree in Spanish and Early American History that he began before breaking big in Hollywood.

“I’m not going to be sitting in a class with other students on the regular,” Powell recently told IndieWire of his return to the University of Texas at Austin. “I’m basically going to be coming back because I have to finish up, but I’m going to be shooting The Running Man in the fall.”

Powell explained that while he’ll be in London for the shoot, he’ll be flying back to Austin for proctored exams, when it comes time for midterms and finals. 

“They’re letting me figure it out [with] distance learning,” he said. “And I’m obviously going to be coming in, zooming in for classes and whatnot, but I have to be back for the proctored exams. So, we’re figuring that out for two or three times a semester, I’ll come back for all my stuff.”

He added that The Running Man director Edgar Wright "has been very nice about letting me finish my degree in the middle of his massive movie.”

Powell originally left college to pursue a career in film after his first year at UT. While he continued his studies and intended to graduate, it became hard to find the time after his career took off in the wake of 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, leaving the actor with just two more courses needed to graduate.

"I think it’s really important to my mom and it’s more of an emotional thing for me,” Powell previously told The Hollywood Reporter of attaining his degree. “Plus, I’m so close, I can taste it.”

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Coming off a hot streak that includes the massive success of 2023’s blockbuster rom-com Anyone But You and his latest team-up with Richard Linklater, Hit Man, Powell will next be seen in Twisters, the offspring of the 1996 Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton blockbuster that hits close to home for Powell.

"Growing up in Texas, Twister was one of the most iconic movies of all time,"he told Entertainment Weekly's for theTwisters cover story. "You grow up in Tornado Alley, and that's the monster that exists in your own backyard."

Powell is also set to lead The Running Man, Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel, following a man forced to evade hitmen as part of a twisted reality show. The novel was previously adapted into a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.