has assembled a suicide squad of epic talent inThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Oh, and to kill as many Nazis as possible.
Cavill and the cast take this job very seriously.
The British military recruits a small group of highly-skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.
I really wanna know who decided on the tongue and the facial hair.
HENRY CAVILL: The facial hair was me.
That was something which I just thought, Have some fun with it.
World War II, have a crazy mustache, slightly mad characters.
Lets really lean into it.
And then the tongue was Guy.
Do something like stick your tongue out.
And so we did.
HERO FIENNES TIFFIN: Nazis and zombies.
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Did you actually figure out the number of people you kill?
Because, honestly, I think it’s in the thousands.
TIFFIN: I was keeping track, and quickly it was like, I cant do it.
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HENRY GOLDING: We’re trying to figure out who had the most.
TIFFIN: You got a lot at one moment.
GOLDING: There’s one moment where I get a fair amount.
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TIFFIN: Actually, at the start, without any spoilers, I think you win there.
[Laughs] But I think there is a beauty to what Guy does.
But yeah, carry on.
Can we posh him up a little bit?
And theycompletelychanged his character in five minutes.
PETTYFER: On the spot.
I think that’s a quick learning curve for a lot of us.
You just never know what’s going to happen, so you have to be on your feet.
Thats what I mean.
TIFFIN: Well, you’d never know what happened.
PETTYFER: I mean, that’s a contradiction to the answer you just gave.
[Laughs]
CAVILL: But sometimes that happens.
You have a whole monologue, and youre like, This is a bit panicky.
It really feels like a troupe of actors.
He’s like, Grab it and put it in here.
It can do anything in that moment which serves the scene and the story.
Maybe the audience won’t know that this is based on real people.
This is the first special forces group, like, ever.
Can you guys sort of touch on the real true story and how amazing it is?
CAVILL: The true story went considerably better than our story went.
I mean, Guy has definitely made it slightly more exciting, but it was a suicide mission.
These guys are crazy enough.
We got him out of the brig.
We’ll just train them up and then send them off and then try and cancel it halfway through.
Without these guys having done what they did, the Americans may not have joined the war.
GOLDING: Can you imagine?
CAVILL: It’s extraordinary what they did.
If it wasn’t true, you wouldn’t believe it.
You’d be like, That’s a ridiculous story.
That’s superhero stuff.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfarehits theaters on April 19.
