Dunkirk trailer: Christopher Nolan's teaser ‘ruined’ by smiling extra

The extra was mocked for appearing to look happy in the face of impending death
Emma Powell10 August 2016
The Weekender

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Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk trailer has been “ruined” by a smiling extra.

The smirking soldier has “distracted” eagle-eyed fans from the drama in the first look at the hotly anticipated WWII blockbuster.

The one minute clip shows thousands of soldiers cowering on a boat as they face impending death from an incoming of German bombers.

The group react in horror as they attempt to take cover – but one man appears to look happy as he joins his comrades on the ground.

Fans hit out at the extra with some accusing him of looking as though he was unaware of what was going on while others branded him the worst extra ever.

One fan posted: "I would have liked that Dunkirk teaser even more if it weren't for that happy extra at the end."

Another wrote: “That one guy in the Dunkirk trailer just sort of enjoying himself, almost smiling at the end.”

A third commented: “Dunkirk extra looking positively delighted about prospect of being bombed by Nazis."

Tom Hardy, Harry Styles, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy and Sir Kenneth Branagh are absent from the trailer which features a group of the 1,500 extras who were employed to recreate Operation Dynamo on the beaches of Dunkirk.

The film will mark Styles' first foray into acting, and co-star Rylance said he is "shaping up".

The Oscar winning actor told the Evening Standard: “No, he doesn’t need tips. He is shaping up.

“I didn’t know anything about him really other than my 12-year-old niece played me a music video. She adores him. There are girls all over the place trying to get to him — he is one handsome fella with an incredible smile and eyes.

“What’s really surprised me is he’s really witty, really funny — he really makes me laugh. He’s been ever so brave, not making any fuss.”

Nolan is the second director to recreate the evacuation of 300,000 Allied troops after Leslie Norman's 1958 film of the same name which starred John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Cribbins and Robert Urquhart.

Dunkirk is set for UK cinema release in summer 2017.

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