D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai on Redefining the War Film Genre With ‘Warfare’

Since opening last weekend, “Warfare” has drawn viewers to the theaters who are fans of the stacked cast, as well as diehards of codirector Alex Garland. But the opinions who matter most to star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai are those of war veterans.  “The biggest thing that I know that Ray [Mendoza] was writing this for was a lot of veterans, and so the nice thing [about] our screenings is the veterans really liked it and they were very vocal about it,” Woon-A-Tai says. “That was the best opinion. Honestly, the most important opinion.” “Warfare” tells the story of a group of U.S. Navy SEALs during the Iraq War. It was written and directed jointly by Garland, of “Ex Machina” and “Civil War” fame, and Mendoza, a former Navy SEAL. The movie depicts an encounter Mendoza’s platoon had following the Battle of Ramadi in the fall of 2006 in Iraq.  Woon-A-Tai was interested in the project from the moment he finished his first read of the script.  “I noticed very quickly that this is not a traditional war film that you typically see,” the 23-year-old says. “I saw within the script that it was going to be different, that it wasn’t glamorizing anything or romanticizing anything

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