Weapons: An Interview with Zach Cregger

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4.6 • 53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Henry & Eddie sit down for a SPOILER-FILLED interview with writer and director of the new film Weapons, Zach Cregger joins the show to break down his latest horror masterpiece. The boys discuss taking the leap from Improv to Horror, Zach reveals how Henry helped him find the voice of "The Mother" in Barbarian, we take a peek into Zach's upcoming Resident Evil film, and much, much more! WARNING: THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR WEAPONS, SO IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED, GO SEE WEAPONS, RETURN PROMPTLY, AND CONSUME.

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0:00.0	First of all, before we even begin today, I want to apologize for having an iPad here.
0:10.7	Yes.
0:11.2	Because this is...
0:12.2	You look sad.
0:13.2	You look pathetic.
0:14.7	I feel emasculated.
0:16.0	You look weak.
0:16.6	I hate my iPad.
0:18.2	I hate having a little iPad.
0:19.7	Yeah.
0:20.1	My MacBook is broken. That is an excuse that I'm using. And so hate having a little iPad. Yeah. My MacBook is broken.
0:21.4	That is an excuse that I'm using.
0:23.2	And so I just want to apologize to you, sir, first of all.
0:27.0	He's a newly powerful man.
0:28.6	I know.
0:29.1	And I've arrived with an iPad like I'm a boomer in Europe.
0:34.3	I use my iPad 70% of the time. So I feel, I feel insulted by how ashamed you are.
0:41.4	If you ever gone to a meeting, when you pitched, when you went into pitch Resident Evil,
0:47.6	did you do it with a fucking iPad in front of you?
0:50.0	No, I did not.
0:51.0	Exactly.
0:51.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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