Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Actor Joseph Quinn and director Alex Garland attended the Warfare Los Angeles Premiere. D'Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor, Noah Centineo, Charles Melton, Will Poulter, and more were also at the red-carpet event. Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs on a surveillance mission gone wrong in insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare and brotherhood, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it. Warfare opens in theatres on April 11th.
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00:00Non-stop action and reality too, this is the thing about this film, it's different
00:28than any other war movie, it's set in real time so it's minute to minute, it's a short
00:34movie but it feels very long, you'll get that anxiety, you'll get that reality, it's
00:39fantastic, I'm very proud of it and thankfully we had Ray there and a lot of the other guys
00:44that were actually in the mission, I wasn't fortunate enough to meet my guy but just having
00:50certain people there, I don't know, it really helped kind of bring that groundedness and
00:55ultimately were depicting a true story and that was the most important thing.
00:58How was the training in prep?
01:00Brutal, brutal, yeah it was a three week boot camp and I think we all came in thinking
01:07it would be cute and we'd hold the weapons and no it was hard.
01:11I think the best thing about it for me is seeing all the boys again, we had such a great
01:15time filming it, so lucky to have a class that you really really get along with and I'm really
01:21excited to show it to the world and I really hope Ray is proud of everything.
01:24The other thing I want to say is I've got the guy Ryan who I'm playing whose name is
01:30John in the movie, he's here with me tonight, he was with me in my hotel room when I was
01:37getting ready, I was really special, really really special to be playing someone, someone
01:41real.
01:42It's pretty wild, I moved to LA for an engineering job, studied mechanical engineering at University
01:47of Texas, moved to LA and my roommate at the time was an actor and that roommate was Glenn
01:56Powell.
01:57He was my roommate, he was my first roommate when I moved to LA.
02:01And so one morning I'm getting ready for my 9 to 5, I'm just like tying my boots, putting
02:05on my khaki pants, you know my button up and Glenn comes like barreling out of his room and
02:10he runs over and he's like, oh Evan, I got this audition for NCIS in like 30 minutes,
02:14can you just read the sides with me really quick?
02:16And I was like, oh yeah, okay, so I'm Sarah and you're Tom?
02:21And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, and so I've never seen a script before or anything and so
02:25I read this scene with him and he was like, alright, great, thanks.
02:29And I was like, wait, what do you do all day?
02:32He's like, I'm an actor and I was like, yeah, yeah, I know, but like, what is that, like
02:38this is kind of fun, like how does this work, what do you do?
02:41And he pointed me in the direction of a wonderful acting class, shout out to Leslie Kahn and
02:46that was my first acting class and the engineering thing was 9 to 5 and acting class was 6 to
02:5110 and so I could just kind of do it for fun in the evening and yeah, I mean I was hooked,
02:55I like immediately got bit by the bug, fell in love with it and yeah, so Glenn, my first
03:01roommate in LA, he's the one who introduced me to the world.
03:05You know, I mean, I think like life in general is just like life experience is a wonderful
03:13thing to pull from for, you know, the arts and acting and yeah, no, I'm really, like my
03:21first, that first acting class, I was 26 years old, so like I, I'm really grateful.
03:26What can you expect?
03:27One of the most authentic portrayals of war by a Navy SEAL himself, Ray Mendoza and Alex
03:34Garland trying to retell a story fully based off memory.
03:41We tried our best to do the best military training you can do in three weeks but as you know it
03:46takes way longer than that and we can only hope to make them proud, so.
03:51I think for this role, I mean, my guy's from Hawaii, he was on a mission as we were filming
03:58so I couldn't speak to him and he's a really dear friend of Ray's and all I heard from Ray
04:05was I want to see the humanity in you so if you can, if you can do all the training but
04:11bring back the human then I'll be happy so hopefully the actor didn't get in the way
04:17of the human, I wasn't a robot, no but it was honestly, it's, it's, it's funny when you
04:24ask that because as an actor you really hope that one day you can have this level of camaraderie
04:31and brotherhood with other actors and an experience that's so singular and I feel like we all experienced
04:37that together and we all felt it together, there wasn't a bad apple or anything like
04:42that, we really, we were in the thick of it together, you know.
04:48People don't know this but when the camera was on one, everybody was acting, even on the
04:53second story of this, yes, yeah, there wasn't any removable walls that you could poke a light
05:00through, we were in a real stage almost as if you're filming a play.
05:05So it was a very fulfilling experience from that point.
05:35Now, go ahead.
05:36Hello, what you need to do.
05:37Hopefully we are always learning and sharing a little Scala.
05:41We have experience with being I''ll screening on WOLF.
05:46Good job.
05:49We call it doing so?
05:50Yes, as a person from a person living in the classroom.
05:53Now I can walk right in some way, we'll overcome it right in some way, but.