Will Poulter on the Two Poles of His Spring A24 Roles

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Will Poulter is currently pulling off a very twunky one-two punch — sweaty military fatigues here, pleated white shorts there. He stars in a pair of polar-opposite movies opening two weeks apart, playing a Navy SEAL officer leading an Iraq War mission in Warfare and a reckless blue blood helping his parents (Richard E. Grant and Téa Leoni) plunder unicorns’ healing powers in Death of a Unicorn. The former, co-directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, is a tense...