{"id":570227,"date":"2026-08-15T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:50:08","slug":"will-poulter-walks-us-through-this-exclusive-clip-from-union-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570227\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Poulter walks us through this exclusive clip from Union County"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Adam Meeks\u2019s new film Union County<\/a>, Will Poulter stars as Cody, a man recovering from addiction and navigating a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program in rural Ohio. In this exclusive clip from the film, Cody speaks to his sister Kat and begins trying to repair their fractured relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that stage, Cody has a decent amount of time clean within the program, and I think what he\u2019s doing there is to rush through the natural order of things and he\u2019s taking a premature step towards reconnecting with family,\u201d says Poulter. The scene, between Poulter\u2019s Cody and Emily Meade\u2019s Kat, takes place in their childhood home. \u201cAs much as she appreciates the sentiment, it\u2019s very hard for her to understand him and trust him at that stage. I think Cody, in that moment, is naively contending with the idea that he is rushing this and he is doing it too soon.\u201d Poulter adds that, in doing the movie, he learned that \u201cthe opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it is connection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poulter stars in Union County with his Warfare co-star Noah Centineo, which the latter calls a \u201chappy occurrence.\u201d Added Poulter, \u201cIt made developing a relationship that would ordinarily require a lot more acting very easy.\u201d Elsewhere, the two of them acted alongside a spate of non-professional and first-time actors in a real drug court. \u201cAdam was very conscious not to infringe on the recovery path for any of those participants,\u201d says Poulter. He wanted to capture the real experience of people in the program, \u201cbut he didn\u2019t want to burden participants with the responsibility to create narrative beats or dramatize things or perform in the traditional sense.\u201d The solution was to have the two fictional characters played by Poulter and Centineo act like the \u201ceyes and ears\u201d integrated into the real program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poulter speaks highly of programs like the one depicted in the movie. \u201cThese programs\u2014at least what I witnessed\u2014are characterized by more humanity and more care than we often extend to folks with substance use disorders,\u201d he says. \u201cI think care and a sense of humanity need to be implemented more when it comes to those sorts of programs.\u201d You can find more information about the programs and resources here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Adam Meeks\u2019s new film Union County, Will Poulter stars as Cody, a man recovering from addiction and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-570227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}