Exclusive: Civil War cast interviews with Cailee Spaeny, Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, and director Alex Garland
Hitting theaters on April 12 from A24 is Civil War, written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Karl Glusman, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonica T. Gibbs, Jess Matney, plus Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman.
From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
The movie takes place in a near-future America that has split into multiple factions embroiled in a civil war. The Western Forces, an armed alliance of states rebelling against the federal government, is days away from pushing the capitol to a surren- der. In the hopes of getting a final interview with the president (Nick Offerman), Lee (Kirsten Dunst), a calloused combat photographer who’s captured atrocities and destabilization across the globe, travels to the White House with a small caravan of journalists(Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson), including a young, aspiring photographer named Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) who she reluctantly comes to mentor.
Dunst was last seen in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, and received a SAG Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. The actress received an Emmy nom for her role as Peggy Blumquist in FX’s Fargo and has also appeared in series including On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Drunk History and Black Mirror, along with such films as The Beguiled, Hidden Figures, Midnight Special, Melancholia, Marie Antoinette, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Virgin Suicides.
Spaeny was last seen playing Priscilla Presley in the biopic Priscilla (2023), which earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in addition to a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She also appeared in the Showtime series The First Lady, and in HBO’s critically acclaimed award winner Mare of Easttown. She’s also featured in such films as How It Ends, Vice, On the Basis of Sex and Bad Times at the El Royale.
Moura, best known stateside for his Golden Globe-nominated turn as Pablo Escobar in Netflix’s Narcos, was last seen in the Apple TV+ series, The Shining Girls. The Brazilian actor and filmmaker also wrote, directed and produced the film Marighella, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
Garland received his first Oscar nomination in 2016 for his Ex Machina screenplay and has also garnered accolades over the course of his career including a DGA Award and three BAFTA Award noms, among others. He’s previously teamed with A24 on Ex Machina, as well as Men, a horror-drama starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear. He also helmed the 2018 film Annihilation and created, wrote, directed and exec produced the FX on Hulu series Devs.
