‘Weapons’ Child Breakout Star Cary Christopher Reveals What It’s Like Working Alongside A-Listers (Exclusive) originally appeared on Parade.
Cary Christopher, who stars in the new mystery horror film Weapons alongside Josh Brolin and Julia Garner, is learning from the best.
While speaking exclusively to Parade‘s 11-year-old guest reporter Ace Jacobs inside the Penthouse suite at The London Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., the child star opened up to his peer about what it was like working alongside his famous colleagues.
“Julia Garner was very nice,” Christopher says. “She had this very warm energy about her.”
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“Josh [is] just a nice guy,” Christopher adds of Brolin, 57. “He’s very funny. He’s an awesome storyteller.”
Although some of those stories didn’t involve Brolin’s famous father, James Brolin, 85, or stepmother, Barbra Streisand, 83, they did have to do with the Goonies star’s upbringing.
“He did tell me this really cool story,” Christopher explains. “I would go around asking people what they liked about their third grade teacher because my character, Alex, is in third grade, and Josh had this really funny story about how he had a crush on his third grade teacher, and he was just really funny.”
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In the Warner Bros. film, Christopher plays the only child from his class to not go missing. The mysterious disappearance leaves the entire community wondering what and who is behind the startling ordeal.
While Christopher has also worked on other high-profile projects, including the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives, he was still able to pick up a few words of wisdom from Garner, 31, and Brolin. (The actor is already busy lining up other projects like the TV series Spider-Noir with Nicolas Cage and HBO’s DC series Lanterns.)
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Something that he’s learned is to “always be prepared,” Christopher says. “Working on a horror movie, you have to be really good on your material — anything really, but especially a horror movie, because there is a lot of stunts that go into filming a horror movie. There’s scares. So, you definitely have to be prepared for all those extra actions that you have to learn, too.”
Weapons hits theaters everywhere in the United States Friday, Aug. 8.
‘Weapons’ Child Breakout Star Cary Christopher Reveals What It’s Like Working Alongside A-Listers (Exclusive) first appeared on Parade on Aug 8, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
