Glen Powell Reveals the Internet Has Officially Made the Capybara His 'Favorite Animal'

During an appearance on 'Hot Ones Versus,' the 'Twisters' actor discussed the viral meme comparing him to the adorable South African rodent

Glen Powell has officially embraced the capybara meme.

In a Hot One Versus interview posted on July 15, Powell, 35, and his Twisters costar Daisy Edgar-Jones, 26, were challenged to either answer “deeply personal questions” or eat a spicy chicken wing.

During the "Friendship Test" portion of the segment, Powell asked Edgar-Jones, “If I could be any animal, what would I be?” The Normal People actress first answered that Powell would be his dog Brisket, before guessing he would be a “bunny" or a "rat," which he found “insulting.”

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The Hit Man actor then answered that he would be a capybara, revealing “the internet thinks I look like a capybara.” Edgar-Jones then asked him to do the “capybara face” to show off the resemblance.

At the end of the interview, Edgar-Jones called Powell a “capybara looking piece of s---” and a “capybara son of a gun” when he was asked to “nail a putt three times” to win the wing-eating competition. Powell missed all three putts, giving his costar the win.

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The original capybara comparison stemmed from a 2016 photo of Powell that began circulating around the internet back in April 2023. A person on X (formerly known as Twitter) posted that Powell “looks like a capybara who made a wish to become human,” leading to his resemblance to the South American animal becoming a meme.

Powell previously addressed the viral meme in an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in December 2023.

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“Years ago, I did a movie where I basically didn’t get invited to the premiere, but I really wanted to go,” he explained. “It was here in New York City, and so I got my own suit and did my own styling and I showed up and was really excited.”

Based on the photo, he recalled that he might have been a little “too excited” to be at the premiere. Then, years later, “someone said I look like a capybara who made a wish to become human and it kind of stuck.”

Powell laughed off the meme and called the internet a “great place.” He even revealed that he “owns the capybara thing now.”

“I am the capybara,” he declared.

Twisters premieres in theaters on July 17.

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