CULTURE
LEADING THE CHARGE
Rising British star Will Poulter reveals the lessons he learnt from the intense training required to play a Navy Seal
It’s been 12 years since Will Poulter’s breakout role alongside Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston in We’re the Millers, for which he won an MTV Movie and TV Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
Now, the actor plays US Navy officer Erik in new film Warfare, which tells the story of a platoon of Navy Seals embarking on a dangerous mission in Iraq – an experience he says was “unifying” for the star-studded cast, which also includes Kit Connor and Joseph Quinn.
Will, who in 2012 left a drama course at the University of Bristol after a year to take up a role in The Maze Runner, made his screen debut in 2007, aged 13, in British indie film Son of Rambow.