‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Actor Glen Powell Says Infidelity Rumors With Sydney Sweeney Were “Disorienting And Unfair”

Romance was in the air this summer. Or, at least, the internet thought it was. Many were thrilled to learn that Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun: Maverick actor Glen Powell were teaming up for a new rom-com titled Anyone But You. And as footage from their press tour and set began circulating, so did the dating rumors.

Powell recently addressed the rumors of their alleged romance for the very first time in a new interview with Men’s Health — and he did not seem happy.

“When all that stuff happened, you know, publicly, it felt disorienting and unfair,” he said. “But what I’m realizing now is that’s just a part of this gig now.”

The rumors coincided with the news that Powell and his girlfriend, Gigi Paris, had broken up. At the same time, outlets reported that Sweeney and her fiancée Jonathan Davino were having some relationship troubles of their own, leading many to believe that they were possibly cheating on their partners with each other.

With the nature of his job, he told Men’s Health, it can be difficult to to put down roots in any one place, making dating even harder.

“On a romantic level, you gotta find a teammate who is down for that adventure, down for that uncertainty, down for that thing. It’s a lot to deal with,” he said. “Honestly, I really try to be a great partner. When I love, I love hard. I also understand that the speed and uncertainty of my life is a very hard thing to put up with.”

That’s what brought him to adopt his dog, Brisket, after his breakup with Paris.

“That’s why I became a dog dad,” Powell said. “I needed to put love into something. I saw Brisket’s face and fell in love.”

With the rumors of their “alleged affair,” as Powell put it during the interview, came the realization that he had reached a new level of stardom since appearing alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. He said he notices the “little checkpoints where the world has shifted a few degrees” when meeting new people.

“If you talk to a girl or something like that, and you’re like, ‘We have a really great connection, we’re having a really great interaction,’ and then they ask you for a selfie, it’s like, ‘Oh. . .,'” he said.

The romance rumors may not be true, but fans will still be able to see the two lovebirds in action in Anyone But You. Sweeney and Powell play Bea and Ben, who unexpectedly reunite at a wedding in Australia after their first date goes terribly wrong.

As the co-stars affectionately put it during an appearance at CinemaCon earlier this year, Sweeney plays a “real nightmare” in Anyone But You, while Powell’s character is “a real asshole.”

Anyone But You premiers in theaters Dec. 15.