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Joseph Quinn, Cosmo Jarvis, and Kit Connor are dishing on their movie “Warfare,” based on writer-director Ray Mendoza’s real experiences as a former Navy SEAL during the Iraq War.
“Extra’s” Adam Weissler spoke with the guys about the movie, as well as Marvel’s major casting announcement for “Avengers: Doomsday.”
Joseph, who plays Johnny Storm/Human Torch from “Fantastic Four,” will be part of “Avengers: Doomsday” and teased, “I think we’re going to go tighter with the suit this time.”
He added, “We’re going to really see how far we can go with that.”
Cosmo, who is also in “Shōgun,” couldn’t say much about the upcoming season, offering only, “I know that they’re working on it. They’re working very hard.”
Jarvis could say more about “Warfare,” talking about what Ray and his co-writer and co-director Alex Garland each brought to the project.
He said, “Ray came out about it from the truth of providing, you know, firsthand authenticity that was more specific to the occupation of these men and Alex, I feel, came at it more from a sort of a stringent artistic… But he was very concerned with truth. He just really wanted it to be true, and that’s obviously, from an artistic perspective, that’s an amazing thing.”
Kit spoke about how bonded the cast became during shooting, while Joseph recalled the three weeks of boot camp they did.
Connor noted, “There was almost an expectation for us to live in each other’s space, basically, you know. There wasn’t any room for a recluse, you know. It was just, we had to sort of act as a unit, act as a team.”
He added, “Had it been a different group of guys, then maybe that would have been more difficult, but I think because it was such a fantastic group of people and, you know, people that I, personally, really respected and appreciated and grew to love quite quickly, it became one of the best parts of the job. I didn’t want to eat dinner on my own. I wanted to have food with everyone. I wanted to talk about the day. I wanted to talk about the work we were gonna do tomorrow. It was a very loving, nurturing, supportive environment.”
Joseph described the three-week boot camp they went through, calling it a “luxury.”
He recalled, “We learned a lot within that amount of time and we used that time to rehearse the material that was seen in the film. We rehearsed it like a play, and then we did some weapons training and then we did some kind of maneuver training so that we looked like SEALs come the first day of shooting.”
He added, “Psychologically, it was, it informed everything, you know, just kind of creating this culture of care within the kind of combat template was essential.”
Quinn shared, “You know, you’d have moments where it was, you know, you’d feel a little bit — it’s complex stuff. But you had all of these friends that you built these relationships with, so you never really felt alone, which is quite rare in this game, and it was a beautiful lesson and a beautiful addition. The thing is, we’ve all come away from the making of this film very good friends, which is, you’re lucky to get a friend on one job, but we had many on this.”
“Warfare” is out April 11.
