Former Navy SEAL on making the new film ‘Warfare’ and its authentic depiction of combat

Ray Mendoza:

It was a bit tricky, actually, because memories under stress, oftentimes, they will — you and I can experience a car wreck, and when asked to explain it, your recollection of it may be different than mine. I may not be affected at all and you can, like, not remember anything.

And so, when we’re dealing with these memories, some people remember something, some don’t, or they happen at different times. And so, a lot of times, we would need like a tiebreaker. If someone says, no, I put the tourniquet on, if another person says no, I did it.

In this case, the Will Poulter character, we both felt we did it, but then Joe, played by Joe Quinn, was like, no, Ray did this and then you did that. And then it was like, oh, OK. So we were kind of both right and both wrong. So that’s kind of how the whole process was with everything.

It was really just a matter of a lot of investigative work, just a lot like a forensic approach to it.

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