As Alden Ehrenreich acquired into uniform for Weapons, he was decided to get this element in regards to the character good.
The actor, who performs Officer Paul Morgan within the horror film that opened atop the field workplace, admitted that he and director Zach Cregger have been torn over whether or not his character ought to have a mustache.
“After we first began speaking in regards to the character, we have been like, ‘There’s no f—ing manner we’re going to do a mustache. We’re not doing a mustache! It’s tremendous trope-y. Each cop in each film has one. We’re not doing it!’” he advised Males’s Well being. “Then I despatched Zach an image of me with a mustache, and he was like, ‘Don’t shave the mustache.’ After which I frolicked with some cops—they usually all had the mustache!”
Ehrenreich added, “It’s simply the best way making films goes a lot of the time: you could have some fastened thought in your head that you simply’re very passionate and enthusiastic about, then while you’re really on the dance flooring, you do find yourself doing one thing completely completely different, and it makes extra sense and works higher.”
In Weapons, all however one baby in Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) third-grade class goes lacking after they every mysteriously get up and run off into the evening at precisely 2:17am. The thriller of what occurred to the youngsters unravels by the views of a number of characters, portrayed by Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, Cary Cristopher and Benedict Wong.
Julia Garner in ‘Weapons’ (2025) (Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Ehrenreich added that he “placed on just a little weight for the half, I grew the mustache, and I placed on the precise uniform, and it made a giant distinction. It will get the character into your physique otherwise.”
“At first, we determined that I didn’t must put on a bulletproof vest,” he defined. “They’re heavy and it’s already 100 levels in Atlanta, the place we shot the film. However then I mentioned, ‘Let’s do the bulletproof vest.’ I wished to be carrying it round. I wished the load of the world on this man’s shoulders as a lot as attainable.”
The actor additionally famous that he “spent a while with a cop,” recounting, “I sat in his lounge with him and his spouse, and the 2 of them walked me by the motions of what it will seem like to sort out somebody, cuff them, arrest them, do all this stuff, utilizing his spouse because the perp. She was very beautiful—and an actual trooper about it! They have been each actually useful.”
Whereas the cop is a tried-and-true archetype of the horror style (I’m taking a look at you, Deputy Dewey), Ehrenreich’s character serves an additional layer of significance in Cregger’s directorial followup to Barbarian (2022). As if the title of Weapons wasn’t already a giant clue of the movie’s deeper that means, one dream sequence incorporates a gargantuan assault rifle hovering within the air with the time “2:17” flashing on the aspect, which some have theorized is a reference to the 217 Home votes that handed a 2022 ban on assault weapons, a bit of laws that has since been held up on the Senate.
