If you spent approximately 90% of Weapons covering your eyes and whimpering softly to yourself (guilty as charged), you might’ve missed an unexpectedly delightful menswear cameo.
We won’t spoil the smash-hit horror flick for you, but here’s a little innocuous context. The movie centers around a town that’s reeling from the disappearance of 17 middle-schoolers, each of whom mysteriously vanished at the same time on the same evening. During one especially pivotal scene, Archer Graff (Josh Brolin, playing a father of one of the missing kids), confronts Julia Garner’s Justine Grady, who the town suspects of somehow orchestrating the whole nightmare.
It’s a tense moment. So we’ll forgive you if you missed the familiar-looking layer Brolin wears to make his point, even though at this juncture it might be the only jacket we can name that deserves its own IMDb profile: Flint and Tinder’s flannel-lined waxed trucker.
The A-list’s favorite trucker made its Hollywood debut in the first season of The Last of Us, when Joel Miller (a steely-eyed Pedro Pascal) wears one to protect him from the cold—and, y’know, the occasional horde of infected undead. In a funny twist of fate, Pascal was originally cast as Archer Graff in Weapons, before back-to-back WGA and SAG strikes made the scheduling untenable.
In the context of Weapons, though, Graff’s choice of outerwear makes perfect sense. He’s a contractor—naturally, he’d gravitate towards a jacket as hard-wearing as he is hard-working (hence, perhaps, the durable vest he also sports from the, ah, legendary Floridian workwear outfitter Legendary Whitetails).
As it turns out, Graff and Miller aren’t the only fellas with a hankering for the hefty, seven-ounce-sailcloth silhouette. Flint and Tinder’s flannel-lined trucker is Huckberry’s most popular item…ever, a nifty tidbit of information that may or may not have helped Brolin solve the mystery of his missing on-screen kid, but definitely makes us want one for ourselves.
