Glen Powell Reacts to Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes Sex Joke

Glen Powell has shared how he really feels about Nikki Glaser’s sex joke from the 2025 Golden Globes.

“Glen Powell, what a year you’ve had. Oh my God. Glen, you were in everything,” Glaser, 40, said on the award show’s stage while delivering her monologue on Sunday, January 5. “Twisters, Hitman, my head when I’m having sex with my boyfriend. Thank you so much for the assist. I’ll see you tonight.”

In response, Powell, 36, reposed a screenshot of him laughing at the quip. “@nikkiglaser CRUSHED,” he wrote via his Instagram Story on Monday, January 6, alongside a laughing face, flexed biceps and eggplant emojis.

Ahead of the awards show, Glaser said she was “ready” to host — and joked that seeing Powell and Timothée Chalamet in the audience during the show might “set off something new in my head.”

“[Glen] is going to be in the back and he has to wear sunglasses so he can’t make eye contact with me because it will throw me, I need to stay dry,” Glaser said of Powell.“These people don’t talk to me outside of a setting like this, so this is my time to talk to them, for them to look at me. Not that they think they’re better than me, it’s just that I don’t run into these people a lot, so I’m standing up there, and it’s blowing my mind that Angelina Jolie has to listen to me talk for nine minutes.”

Powell was nominated on Sunday for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for his performance as Gary Johnson in Hit Man, but ultimately lost the award to A Different Man’s Sebastian Stan. (A Real Pain’s Jesse Eisenberg, Heretic’s Hugh Grant, Saturday Night’s Gabriel LaBelle and Kinds of Kindness’ Jesse Plemons were also nominated.)

While Powell walked away from the awards show empty handed, he was surrounded by his loved ones during the event. The actor, who walked the red carpet with both his parents, bumped into his look alike contest winner, too.

“Oh, look who’s here!” the Twisters star said in a video shared by E! News as he walked toward his doppelgänger. The twosome embraced and posed for photos together. “You crushed it, that was so fun,” Powell gushed after calling his mom over to chat with the look alike. An eyewitness exclusively told Us Weekly that Powell stood with his counterpart “for a while, smiling and laughing.”