The Alden Ehrenreich team and “weapons” first resisted the cop mustache at the start
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While Alden Ehrenreich has become uniform for WeaponsHe was determined to obtain this detail on the right character.
The actor, who plays the officer Paul Morgan in the horror film who opened at the top of the box office, admitted that he and the director Zach Cregger were torn if his character should have a mustache.
“When we started talking about the character, we said to ourselves:” There is no F-IG for us to make a mustache. We don’t make a mustache! It’s great trope there. Each cop of each film has one. We don’t do it! “” He said Men’s health. “Then, I sent to Zach a photo of me with a mustache, and he said:” Do not shave the mustache “. And then I spent time with cops – and they all had the mustache! »»
Ehrenreich added: “It’s just the way movies happens so long: you have a fixed idea in your head that you are very passionate and excited, so when you are actually on the dance floor, you end up doing something completely different, and it makes more sense and works better.”
In WeaponsAll except a child of the third year class of Justine Gandy (Julia Garner) disappears when they wake up mysteriously and run away in the night at 2:17 am. The mystery of what happened to children takes place through the prospects of several characters, represented by Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, Cary Cristopher and Benedict Wong.
Julia Garner in “Weapons” (2025) (Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection)
Ehrenreich added that he “gave a little weight for the room, I cultivated the mustache, and I put the real uniform, and that made a big difference. This puts the character in your body in a different way. ”
“At first, we decided that I didn’t need to wear a bulletproof vest,” he said. “They are heavy and it is already a hundred degrees in Atlanta, where we shot the film. But I said:” Let’s make the bulletproof vest. “I wanted to transport it.
The actor also noted that he “had spent a little time with a cop”, telling: “I sat in his living room with him and his wife, and the two have traveled to me the movements of what it looked like to attack someone, to hold them, to stop, to do all these things, using his wife as Perp. She was very charming – and a real soldier on this subject!
While the cop is a proven archetype of the genre of horror (I look at you, deputy Dewey), the character of Ehrenreich serves an additional layer of meaning in the follow -up of the CREGGER to Barbarous (2022). As if the title of Weapons It was not already a great index of the deeper meaning of the film, a dream sequence presents a gargantuan assault rifle which hovers in the air with time “2:17” on the side, that some theorized is a reference to the 217 votes of the Chamber which passed a 2022 ban on assault weapons, legislation which has since been maintained in the Senate.
