After starring in some of the biggest movie franchises of all-time, Australian actor Hugo Weaving has been cast as Andrew Garfield‘s father in Mel Gibson‘s “Hacksaw Ridge,” it was announced Monday.
“Hacksaw Ridge” tells the true story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss (Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of World War II, saved 75 men without firing a gun. Believing that the war was just but that killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier during the conflict to fight on the front lines without a weapon. As an army medic, Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers.