While promoting “Twisters” on The Today Show (via The Hollywood Reporter), Powell shared a clip from the film that briefly features his parents. The moment comes during a rodeo sequence, and it’s a blink-and-miss-it deal that Powell had to point out to Hoda Kotb as the clip played.

Kotb then asked Powell if his parents have appeared in any of his other movies. “They’ve made it in since ‘Spy Kids 3,’” he said. “Yeah, literally since ‘Spy Kids 3.’ I think they’ve been in every single one.”

This is surprising. Powell has been in close to 30 feature films, but he didn’t really pop until the 2016 duo of Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!!” and Theodore Melfi’s “Hidden Figures.” Am I to believe Powell found a way to wedge his folks into Denzel Washington’s “The Great Debaters?” Ethan Hawke’s “The Hottest State?” Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” where he plays Trader #1?

I’ve no reason but to take the dazzingly handsome and utterly irresistible Powell at his word. If he says his parents can be glimpsed in “Ride Along 2,” I believe the man. In any event, now that he’s a top-of-the-marquee star, he’ll be able to keep this tradition going for as long as he feels is necessary — though I do hope he stars in an adaption of Jean-Paul Satre’s “No Exit” at some point to see how he squeezes them into a one-set play occupied by only three people.

“Twisters” (read /Film’s review) is now playing in theaters.