Will Poulter and Kit Connor on bonding with head-shaving and tattoos on their film Warfare

Alex Garland’s young cast and Ray Mendoza’s film war had to join quite quickly, to interpret an American military unit whose lives depend on each other, a duration of the Iraq war in 2006.

The familiarity was crucial, so before filming, the cast was sent in a three -week military camp.

They live together, learn military jargon and arms security and were pushed beyond their limits, all of which approached them.

First, they agreed to shave their heads to see the part, increasing trust and familiarity.

“We shave our heads on the first day and we have tattoo at the end of the process, so he reserved the experience,” Poulter tells the BBC.

The actor, who recently appeared on the bear and the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, plays Captain Eric, who was part of a group of American soldiers and Iraqi explorers in a surveillance mission.

We see how it goes wrong, with devastating consequences.

Heartstopper star, Connor, plays the newcomer Tommy, arriving home how young were the soldiers: he has just turned 21, the same age Tommy had at that time.

The actor says that the decision to make a tattoo shared with his cast partners after filming wrapped was an “obvious.” The cast of the Avengers and the Lord of the Rings He did the same after his final films.

War actors decided their The tattoo would say “Call me”To reflect your brotherhood, while reference Erik Prydz’s 2004 dance successthat kicked the movie.

The cast presents some other big names, including reserve dogs d’haraooh woon-a-tai, Cosmo Jarvis de Shōgun, Stranger Things and Joseph Quinn de Beatles Biopic’s and Charles Melton de Riverdale.

“It was really formative to me,” says Connor about his time in the movie. “I have made friends, I really think I will know for a long time.

“We all wanted to commemorate it, we are very proud of the work we have done together.”

The film is completely based on a mission of the real life that the Iraq War Duration, and is based on the memories of US soldiers who were there.

The group was integrated into the house of an ordinary Iraqi family, whom we see briefly in the film, in Ramadi, an area controlled by the forces of Al -qaeda.

The objective of the army had the leg to slide and observe the area under the deck of the dark, to guarantee the safe passage of the land forces the next day.

What they did not know what followed to an insurgent house, making them the goal of an attack.

Filmed in real time, war has no music or flashbacks, so there is no relief for the audience. They drop you in the middle of the action for the whole movie.

The soldiers in command have to make decisions of the second fraction amid pain and chaos, with the Iraqi family trapped in crossfire.

Oscar Garland, whose subsequent catalog includes the 28 -day film franchise and Ex machinaHe had the idea of ​​war when he was making the movie last year Civil war.

I was working on the battle scenes with Hollywood Deff Man and the Ray Mendoza shooting coordinator.

“Duration The process of editing the civil war, I could really concentrate in part of the work that Ray had done, and how sophisticated and how nuanced it was,” Garland recalls.

Cataban about Mendoza’s previous life as a Seal of the US Navy and about the operation of Ramadi, where he was his communications officer.

Mendoza said he had always wanted to make a movie about that mission.

The veteran had a great resumption for wanting to recreate what happened that day, to help replace the lost memories of his colleague Elliott Miller.

Miller, a former Navy Seal, was so seriously injured in Ramadi who suffered Traumatic brain lesion and memory lossAnd he had to amputate a leg.

Duration The mission, Mendoza took the unconscious soldier to the rescue tank that finally saved his life.

“Elliott doesn’t remember him, and when he woke up, he had many questions,” says Mendoza.

“No matter how many maps we throw, or how many times we write it, without that central memory, I think it has had difficulties.

“He simply raised more questions than answers. So he wanted recreation of this.”

Then Garland and Mendoza decided to make a war together, share the writing and direction loans, and dedicate the movie to Miller.

The crucial question is whether to see the film helped Miller gather things.

“He did, yes, it was a sponge,” says Mendoza.

“We guide him through him: he had many questions, he has children who have questions.

“Now it is a memory of the movie, but it is as close as it will, it is very grateful.”

Miller was played by Jarvis, who calls him “a fun guy … It’s great, a living incarnation of persistent.”

It was a “unique situation to be when you are intugated to portray someone who is sitting in front of you,” said Jarvis, about having the person who was playing real on the set.

“But because I didn’t remember [what happened]Many of my references had to come from their sausages. “

The casting of the soldiers has caused some emotion online, and some publications call the actors “all the bride and groom and” stars Red Hot Rising “.

Garland arches an eyebrow with this, and Mendoza jumps to talk about why those actors were chosen.

“I told them this, so I’m not trying to offend them, but we keep that you are looking for the best actors. They are all great actors. We were looking for the right actors,” he says.

“So, what is your willingness to push your bodies conforms to a level of comfort to which they perhaps did not use.

“And those who jump to that opportunity, you say” yes, that is the attitude we need. “

The collection and cross verification of the soldiers’ memories was a great job, largely carried out by Garland.

“I think there is an inherent value in trying to be honest and sincere about something as serious and significant as war,” he says.

He filmed the film in a studio in a suburb to northern London, in an old World War II aerodrome, which turned into real time “a real combat incident … in the most honest, forensic and precise way possible.”

It is not surprising, by sharing credits with Garland, the former Seal of the US Navy. Mendoza directed the training field of the actors.

He was interpreted by Residential-A-Tai, who calls him “a brilliant instructor who instilled a lot of confidence in us”, while making security a priority.

The actor was also fascinated by the narrative that was not “dramatized or Hollywooded.”

“Seeing these guys not obey orders, and doing what they needed to save their squad was interesting for me,” he says, talking about the process of evacuation of the soldiers.

Mendoza believes that the film can also help veterans who fight to express how war can be.

“Some of these things are more difficult to explain in words,” he says. “So, artistic images are how I can communicate that.”

Connor echoes this, saying: “Many of these men are very less inclined to talk about the melas in thesis situations, either due to humility or a real difficulty in articulating it.

“Many of them really don’t enjoy talking about their participation.”

The film has been called “the most heartbreaking and honest representation of modern combat ever made” by the telegraphWhile The New Yorker said It offers a “hyper realistic reprimand of the American war film.”

The guardian said The “filmmakers’ message is lost in the surprise of the battle”, while Added empire: “It may either be the most effective and pure film against the War of Cinema: there is no sentimentality, or hand wing, but the most significant is not a second or makes it look great or attractive.”

Poulter says he admires the determination of filmmakers to make war purely objective.

“Hopefully this film contributes to a better modification of how negative and how the consequences of war are characterized by many losses …

“I think this is both a movie against war and you can expect to see.”

The war will leave in theaters on Friday, April 18.