Scott Eastwood is taking the lead in Alarum. This Michael Polish-directed picture sees the second-generation actor star as Joe Travers, a rogue spy that departs his espionage life in order to get married. His quiet life alongside his wife Laura (Willa Fitzgerald) is put on blast when various intelligence agencies swarm their remote cabin in an attempt to track down a stolen hard drive.

Alarum continues a career of action-adventures for Eastwood. The 38-year-old actor has previously held supporting roles in action-driven films like Suicide Squad (2016), Pacific Rim: Uprising, and The Fate of the Furious. He is next set to star in Wind River: The Next Chapter, a sequel to the 2017 critically-acclaimed Wind River.

In celebration of Alarum hitting theaters and digital, ScreenRant spoke with Eastwood to discuss who his character of Joe Travers is, what exactly what the тιтular organization’s intentions are, what it was like to team up with and learn from Sylvester Stallone, and what makes Alarum stand out among today’s busy action scene.

Scott Eastwood Is In The Dark On Alarum’s Operations

“I’m as blind as y’all are…”

ScreenRant: Your character, Joe, has got a lot of history in the espionage game. There are some time jumps we have in the first couple of minutes. Who is Joe Travers in this grand world?

Scott Eastwood: The guy that wants to get out. He’s been in the [spy] life too long and he wants a peaceful life. But when you marry a spy, you kind of get sucked back in.

There’s a lot of mystery surrounding Alarum, what the organization is, what their motives are. For those who are going into this movie blind, what can you tell us about what Alarum is? What can you say?

Scott Eastwood: I’m as blind as y’all are. I don’t know about it. I think they’ll have to make a sequel to really explore it, to be honest.

Eastwood & Stallone Team Up For The First Time

“He was on the top of my list to work with…”

You get to work with Sylvester Stallone in this film, which I think is quite interesting because your father, Clint, throughout his decades of film-making, never crossed paths with Sly, yet you already have in your personal career. What was it like to work with Stallone on this movie?

Scott Eastwood: He’s a legend. He was on the top of my list to work with. Just getting to be in his presence was great. I really learned a lot. I felt like from him and his ability to discern material and really understand what makes good material versus not, and so I took a lot of good insights away from that.

Did you guys share a lot of time on set together or was he only there for a couple of days?

Scott Eastwood: He was there for a few days, but we got a lot of time to chat, which is cool.

What Makes Alarum Stand Out Amongst Today’s Action Scene?

“The way this was made was really scrappy…”

I’ve seen a lot of action movies over the years and there’s something about this film that I feel like will rope people in, specifically the mystery surrounding it. But from your perspective, as someone who got to work on it directly, what makes Alarum stand out in today’s action landscape?

Scott Eastwood: Well, I think it shows you can make a down and dirty film. If you have a decent script and you have some characters people like. You got to be scrappy. The way this was made was really scrappy and it was kind of like we did that on purpose to make it down, dirty and scrappy, but try to make it still entertaining.

About Alarum

Sylvester Stallone, Scott Eastwood, Mike Colter, and Willa Fitzgerald star in this explosive action-thriller about two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network that will stop at nothing to obtain a critical ᴀsset. Joe (Eastwood) and Lara (Fitzgerald) are agents living off the grid whose quiet retreat at a winter resort is blown to shreds when members of the old guard suspect the two may have joined an elite team of rogue spies, known as ALARUM.