Glen Powell, the star of Twisters and Anyone But You, recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to respond to viral comment that called Powell the biggest up-and-coming movie star in Hollywood and gave Gosling a back-handed compliment.

The unnamed producer said that Powell is officially a movie star “in the sense that audiences now go to movies to see him.”

But the comment included some Gosling shade as the producer added: “Unlike an actor like Ryan Gosling whose appeal is mostly limited to female audiences, Glen appeals to both females and males.”

George Clooney recently told GQ magazine that changes at the major studios have lessened Hollywood’s power to create movie stars

“They haven’t developed stars the way the studio system used to,” Clooney said of Hollywood. “Brad Pitt and I kind of were at the very end of that, where you could work at a studio and do three or four films, and there was some plan to it. And I don’t think that’s necessarily the case anymore. So it’s harder for you to sell somebody something on the back of a star.”

Analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations said that Powell and Timothee Chalamet are “ushering in a new talent base of bankable stars,” adding: “That’s wonderful for audiences, but even more so, a massive relief for the industry, which has been relying on aging talent for far too long.”

Powell’s upcoming projects include Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” and the Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers.”