Still, it was an “incredibly trying” experience.

Holding ourselves to higher standards than maybe any of us ever held ourselves to before was really tough."

Put on a brave face

“I didn’t need them to talk like my friends.

WARFARE stars D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Charles Melton, Kit Connor, Joseph Quinn, and Will Poulter photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

‘Warfare’ stars Kit Connor, Charles Melton, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, and Joseph Quinn.Credit:Eric Ray Davidson

It holds you accountable in a way.”

“We felt like we all had each other’s backs.

We were all going to help each other through anything hard that came our way.

Will Poulter photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

Will Poulter.

So it was a real blessing, I think.

So there wasn’t really splinter groups or cliques or anything like that.

We really tried to do things as uniformly as possible.”

Joseph Quinn photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

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Leave no man behind

“That was extremely exhausting, and it was very tiring.

Garland and Mendoza don’t shy away from showing the physical horrors of the attack.

Gun control

“I’d never touched a firearm before.

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Charles Melton, Kit Connor, Joseph Quinn, and Will Poulter photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

(Clockwise from top left) D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Charles Melton, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, and Joseph Quinn.Eric Ray Davidson

I’d never touched a weapon before.

And training paid off.

It had to be that way.

Charles Melton photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

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It had to be believable that we were connected to these things.”

You must be a beast,'” the Toronto native says in admiration and awe.

“They have to do underwater training, holding your breath, f—ing mimicking waterboarding.

Kit Connor photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

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And a lot of people break.

Those like Ray who don’t are one in a million.”

“I was pretty shook, to be honest.

Will Poulter photographed exclusively for EW on March 19, 2025 in Los Angeles.

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The small problem, they discovered, was that “sometimes those memories would clash with each other.

“And we found meaning within ourselves, and we found meaning with that title too.”

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