Hollywood “It” boy of the moment Glen Powell addressed the massive success of his rom-com with Sydney Sweeney, Anyone But You, and the possibilities of a sequel in an interview with Vanity Fair published Wednesday.

The magazine profiled Powell ahead of his summer blockbuster Twisters and a slew of other big projects in the works, such as a potential Top Gun 3 and a collaboration with J.J. Abrams, yet the film that seems to be generating the most buzz with fans is the status of a follow-up to the head-scratching flop-turned-massive-hit Anyone But You.

The article hints at the rumored possibility of a sequel, as Powell addressed the bizarre path to success the first film has followed.

After Anyone But You initially bombed at the box office in December, the marketing and social media teams took a non-traditional approach to building momentum for the film and it worked beyond their wildest dreams.

The song Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield began trending online — it was the movie's theme song and a TikTok trend emerged of fans posting videos of themselves singing the anthem as they left the theaters for Anyone But You.

Then, a fake news scandal from months earlier reemerged — celebrity gossip sites alleging that Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney were having an affair (Sweeney is engaged to one of the producers of Anyone But You, Jonathan Davino).

Powell admits that he and Sweeney “leaned in” to the gossip, with Powell making a tongue-in-cheek cameo on the Sydney Sweeney-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live to hang a lantern on the dating rumors.

“We leaned into the chemistry, we leaned into the fun, we leaned into all of it—and the movie benefited,” Powell explained. “The fun part with Syd was figuring out what’s going to be noisy and sticky.”

He continued, “People talk about TikTok as a thing that is cannibalizing the theaters, and what we saw is that they feed into each other: It becomes more eventized and more fun.”

As for why he was ok selling dating rumors that weren't true to help market a film, Powell explains, “Glen, the person, would not have been comfortable with that a year and a half ago. Now I can put myself in a different place and be a character.”

He added, “It’s almost like creating a wrestler alter ego. It’s like you’re Bruce Wayne and Batman. Nobody has the full picture, so you have to be okay with them not having a full picture.”

“It’s entertainment,” Powell continued. “I’m okay now with my personal life being part of the entertainment.”

Sounds like Powell is getting the hang of the Hollywood thing pretty quickly. Talk then turned to the possibility of an Anything But You 2 (not to be confused with Anyone But U2, which is probably an anti-Bono fan fiction piece in some corner of the internet).

As for a follow-up to the Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell powerhouse rom-com, Vanity Fair explains that “audiences have loudly requested an Anyone But You sequel, and ideas are being batted around.”

So there you have it. Ideas are being “batted around.” But if the first film has taught us anything, it's that the plot is far less important than a clever TikTok trend tie-in for fans to take video of themselves doing as they leave the theater. Throw in another fake romance rumor for Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell and Anyone But You could have a bona fide franchise on its hands.