Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones are the stars of the upcoming movie Twisters, a sequel to 1996’s Twister, and they’ve spent the past few weeks promoting it, mainly via Powell posting photos with his dog Brisket.


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Despite the clear evidence that Powell is an animal lover, at least one organization isn’t impressed, and recently staged a protest at the L.A. premiere of the film. Can you guess which one? If you guessed PETA, the animal rights organization liked by almost nobody, you’d be right.



As Powell and Edgar-Jones stand in front of the screen, a PETA protester is on her knees and trying to resist being removed from the screening as she screams about there being no excuse for animal abuse, even managing to detail some of her specific concerns with the movie: It shows the whipping of animals, because there’s a scene set at a rodeo.



The film’s stars look on with incredibly neutral-to-pleasant looks on their faces, waiting patiently for the furor to die down so they can continue the work of promoting their movie.


PETA has published a blog post further detailing their issues with the film and elaborating on their reasons for staging the protest. The protester in the video didn’t come alone either; there were also protesters outside of the premiere with signs that read, “Calves’ Necks Are Twisted at Rodeos” and “Animals Have Heart Attacks at Rodeos.” PETA’s goal is to get Universal Pictures to add a disclaimer to the end credits about the “real-life cruelty inherent in rodeos and to discourage audiences from attending them.”


The big question here, of course: Why focus on a movie that isn’t primarily about rodeos instead of protesting the rodeos themselves?