#SPOTTED: D’PHARAOH WOON-A-TAI, ALEX GARLAND AND RAY MENDOZA IN TORONTO FOR “WARFARE”

WARFARE relives former U.S. Navy Seal Ray Mendoza‘s experience overcoming an incredibly harrowing experience in Iraq. It is a painstaking 90 minute journey told by him and visionary Co-Writer/Director Alex Garland with unflinching realism. The two last worked together on acclaimed Box Office success CIVIL WAR, where Mendoza served as a military advisor, and this time around he gets to tell his own story.

This is a powerful and compelling story and a tremendous Ensemble including our v. own D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Charles Melton, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Michael Gandolfini, and more.

Toronto was so blessed to get a special Advance Screening of the A24 release with Woon-A-Tai making a return home, along with Garland (just here last year for CIVIL WAR), and also Mendoza. Norm Wilner moderated a Q&A at Scotiabank Theatre, following the Screening. Mendoza tells us about the complexity of filming this very personal story with some of the actual people at the center of it on-set working with the Actors. He also tells us about an unexpected connection he has made while touring the Film, with widows and children of soldiers who lost their husbands and fathers.

A24 release WARFARE in theatres April 11, 2025.

Highlights from the night here:

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