EXCLUSIVE: Sam Richardson Discusses Comedy & Stunts In The Tomorrow War

Sam Richardson stars in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video film, The Tomorrow War, and we had the opportunity to chat with him about his new sci-fi flick. Sam plays civilian Charlie, who is drafted to fight a war thirty years in the future.

On bringing comedy to the film: “I feel that everybody is in defense mode when they are in this thing, and so truly people do rely on comedy or humor as a defense mechanism. That’s very real, so I wasn’t trying to play very broad wackadoo comedy, you also need that release valve of all the action and so much happening in these high stakes, and so it was fun to get to play that release valve. I was also trying to at least ground that with emotion. With Charlie, he’s a bunch of emotions and emotions that people typically would hide. Like he’s very fearful, he’s afraid. I think the emotion of fear is what I was playing with.”

On filming the arrival to the future scene: “That was really fun. You see a scene like that in a movie and you’re like, ‘Oh, they must have done that once or twice.’ You do that all day for three days, but tend to drown for three days, and exhaustion.”

The Tomorrow War will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on July 2.

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