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Director Guy Ritchie and stars Henry Cavill, Henry Golding, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Alex Pettyfer chat with The Hollywood Reporter all about their new film 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.' Ritchie reveals what made these actors the perfect group of "ungentlemanly" men and the cast share the most surprising thing they learned while researching their characters. 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' is out everywhere on April 19th.

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00:00You guys looking at me like...

00:02It's just little Alex.

00:04Little Al.

00:06Henry Cavill is leading a ragtag group of ungentlemanly men

00:10in Guy Ritchie's latest film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

00:14The film, based on real historical events, follows Operation Postmaster,

00:18where a top-secret combat unit known as the Special Operations Executive

00:21used unconventional practices to battle the Nazis during World War II.

00:25The SOE also influenced the classic James Bond novels from Ian Fleming.

00:30The cast, including Cavill, Henry Golding, Hero Finds Tiffin, Alex Pettifer,

00:35and director Ritchie, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter

00:37about rounding up this group of misfits.

00:39What makes this group, Alan, the Henrys, Alex, and Hero,

00:43the perfect, ungentlemanly men?

00:46There was some great director that said...

00:49...about directing's really 90% of its casting.

00:53So, as long as you cast the requisite miscreants for this particular endeavor,

01:02then really the rest of it takes place, takes care of itself after that.

01:07The film is, of course, loosely based on history,

01:09with many of the characters created for the film.

01:12However, Cavill and Pettifer's characters were based on real-life historical figures.

01:16What was the most surprising thing you learned while researching these characters?

01:21Oh, I've just recently learned that Major Gus Marsh Phillips was an amateur poet and author,

01:26and he wrote a novel based upon the adventures that he had been on with the SOE,

01:34and had he not died during World War II,

01:37he might have beaten Ian Fleming to writing a Bond-like series of books.

01:41I was waiting for a poem.

01:45I haven't memorized it.

01:48Yeah, do you have any of these poems memorized?

01:50Can you recite one for us right now?

01:52Yeah, go on, give it a go.

01:53No, no, I don't.

01:55There was an old lady from...

01:56Another cast member based on history was Alan Richson,

02:01who plays Anders Lassen,

02:03known for definitely using some unconventional fighting methods during the war.

02:07What was the fight training like for you all?

02:09Did you all do most of your own stunts, or how did that work?

02:12Alan did all the hard work there.

02:14Sadly, you don't have Alan today.

02:16Yeah.

02:16And Alan is the man you need to ask that question.

02:21Henry Golday, I was going to ask,

02:22I didn't know if any of your sword training from Snake Eyes helped out for this at all, but...

02:28No, no, sadly not.

02:30A lot of the, like the boy said,

02:32a lot of the close hand-to-hand combat,

02:34Alan got a lot of it.

02:36But actually, Alex was a bit tasty on screen as well.

02:39He had a couple bits.

02:40Are you a bit jealous of a lot?

02:41I was so jealous that I was put in a bolt hole,

02:44and then unfortunately I decided when I was watching Alan doing what he does best,

02:49I felt the need to want to have, like, maybe 2% of the activities.

02:56Henry, you called Alan Big Al on Instagram.

03:00I do.

03:00Is that an alter ego he had on set?

03:02And did any of the rest of you guys get any fun nicknames?

03:06No, I've never called Alan Big Al apart from that one time.

03:10And as I said in the post,

03:14it just felt appropriate in the vacuum that is Instagram.

03:17We had two Henrys.

03:18We had Hero's character name was Henry,

03:20and Alex, I won't tell you what his nickname was.

03:24A bit rude.

03:26Uh-oh.

03:27We gotta hear it.

03:28I mean, yeah, we don't think we had a nickname.

03:29The guy's looking at me like,

03:31It was just little Alex.

03:34Little Al.

03:35Big Al.

03:35And while they may be playing the most ungentlemanly of men,

03:39the cast is anything but.

03:40What would you say is the most gentlemanly thing about the man sitting next to you?

03:46Would I do Guy or would I do Henry?

03:48You will do Henry and then we'll go around and then Alex can do Guy.

03:51Okay.

03:52Better be good.

03:55I like this.

03:57Henry Cavill stands up whenever a lady walks into a room.

04:02And he's been consistent with that all the way through.

04:04I made two movies with him,

04:06and I'm in a room with him all the time when I'm making those movies.

04:09And you have never failed to stand up when a lady walks in the room.

04:12There you go.

04:14Henry's manners are impeccable.

04:17He's always incredibly polite.

04:19There's no point where he's losing that sense of decorum and effing and blinding on set.

04:25Hero is everything I wanted to be when I was his age.

04:30I think he's got such a strong head on his shoulders,

04:33an amazing career ahead of him.

04:35Quite jealous of the fact that he's so young, handsome.

04:40But the most humble, humble young man.

04:43The first night that we all met each other at the hotel we were staying at,

04:47the night before filming, Alex was the one who organized the WhatsApp group

04:50and got us all together and put it to the table and got us to sit down.

04:53And he'd done his homework on all of us and was very complimentary.

04:58And I remember going back to my room from that dinner thinking,

05:01what a stand-up guy.

05:02I, I, I...

05:03Good luck.

05:08Go on.

05:08Let's take it to him.

05:11Let's take it to him.

05:12Let's take it to him.

05:13Let's take it to him.

05:15I think, I think opportunity.

05:18Guy presents opportunity for people and guides you in a way that I can't put into words or articulate.

05:27I mean...

05:27Well, you want to.

05:28I want to.

05:29I want to.

05:30But, um, yeah, he has given me an opportunity that I will forever be grateful for because

05:36I sit on this couch per one with a band of brothers that I can honestly say I love.

05:42And, um, I had the most fun experience on this set that I've ever had on any film.

05:49And that is genuinely because of Guy.

05:55It's very good.

05:56For more on this interview, head to THR.com.

06:01And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.

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