Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson open up about 'The Iron Claw,' A24's highly anticipated wrestling drama about the legendary Von Erich family.
Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson developed their brotherly bond and brawny bodies to suit up as the legendary Von Erich brothers in Sean Durkin’s new A24 biopic.Devan Coggan is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly. Most of her personality is just John Mulaney quotes and Lord of the Rings references.may not be blood relatives, but spending an afternoon with them feels a lot like hanging out with three actual brothers.
Dickinson, 27, admits to occasionally feeling silly in the ring, especially when their wrestling coach told them to go home and punch pillows for practice. But the British actor's onscreen brothers won't stand for any self-deprecation. "From the moment you come out, you're just doing heavy drops on the mat," Efron tells him, his voice tinged with eldest brother pride, not unlike the Von Erich brother he plays in the film.
"The boys are all very still and quite stoic at times," Efron says of watching the Von Erichs on screen. "But I think it's a bit of a defense mechanism they built up. They put these walls up to the outside world in order to stay strong enough to persevere through everything they had to do. They had to be perfect all the time.
Instead of shooting short sequences or individual moves, Durkin let the camera run, and the actors wrestled entire matches from start to finish. Between the lengthy takes and the roar of the crowd, every hit felt 100 percent real."Those background performers made me feel like I belonged there," White says. "Leading up to those wrestling sequences, that's probably when I was feeling most insecure. It takes such confidence and skill to walk into a ring like that and perform.
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