Cosmo Jarvis chats with THR at the red carpet premiere of 'Warfare' and talks about the immense responsibility everyone in the cast and crew felt while making the film. Plus, he talks about the tactical skills they learned and bond the cast formed while at "boot camp."
00:00It's so nice to see you. I'm obsessed and I want to hear everything because
00:03what responsibility you have with this role?
00:07Well, I mean, everybody who is employed on this job has a fairly equal amount of responsibility,
00:14including all of the technical departments as well, because although we had a kind of
00:20a forensic approach to trying to mine as much truth as we could to inform what we were employed
00:28to portray, so too did the art department and the production design and the sound design.
00:34There was a lot of research that everybody had to do to deliver on what Ray and Alex wanted
00:41for this.
00:42And I overheard you say you arrived later than everyone else. So you were a part of the boot
00:47camp?
00:48Oh, no, I was. I didn't arrive later. I just already had a shaved head.
00:53Oh, you did? Okay, that's what I said. So you shaved your head?
00:56Just personally before you arrived?
00:57Oh, yeah.
00:58Oh, wow. So then tell me, what was the boot camp experience like? What kinds of things
01:01were you doing?
01:03We were trying to instill in us a sort of a functional understanding of firearms, operation,
01:17safety, tactics, room clearances, and different kinds of possible objectives, communication
01:27rules, just so that we could have a very baseline understanding of how those things work. But
01:32I guess through that process, I guess through that process, because we were kind of given tasks to
01:40complete as a group and look after each other, we sort of developed a much more organic familiarity
01:49with each other, as SEALs do, as any armed service member does. And so, yeah, and then we were, I don't know if it was by design, I think it was by design, we were encouraged to take that same discipline of completing group objectives into the objective of completing a dramaturgical objective together.
02:15Yeah. And so what is, what was the experience like when you have these intense days, and then you wrap for the day and are sent home? How do you decompress? And were you guys turning to each other to sort of help each other through that?
02:29Well, we were all there for each other. I mean, we spent, you know, even out of work hours, I mean, there's a lot of, the work was just a big part of everybody's lives 24-7. There's lots of, lots of ideas and suggestions and contemplations about how to make things work more efficiently and, and be more productive. And so, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's, yeah.
02:58Well, I can't wait to see it. Then tell me about Alex, because you had worked together before, um, and reunited on this. So tell me, was that, did he call you for this, just knowing you guys had a good relationship before on Annihilation?
03:10I, uh, no, I met with him to discuss this. And I had previously met him for an audition I did a very long time ago for Annihilation. And I, I, I had won the part, but, um, for a multitude of reasons, um, they, they had to, I, I wasn't in the, my, the part that I played was never included in the movie.
03:34So it was cut. So I, uh, and that was it for years. And then suddenly I got a call from, um, an invitation to meet Alex. And that's where he, when he introduced me to what he was planning to do with this, with Ray. And, um, yeah, that's kind of how it happened.
03:52And then last question, before people watch this movie, what advice do you have for them about what they're about to experience or how best to experience it?
03:58I would give them no advice. I would prefer if they went into it and were, and just witnessed it for whatever it is.
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