Lana Condor is obsessed with war films

Lana Condor has "an obsession with war films".

The 27-year-old actress - who stars alongside Chase Stokes in the new action-thriller film 'Valiant One' - has recently fulfilled her long-held ambition of starring in a war film.

She told Collider: "Weirdly, I have an obsession with war films. I love thrillers.

"I don’t know what that says about me, but they are more my comfort movies than anything else. I’ve always loved watching them, and I’ve always thought, 'Man, I would love to know what it’s like to make something like that.'

"And so, when I got the opportunity to do 'Valiant One', it was the first time that our amazing producers and our amazing director and the production company and just someone in the industry, in general, believed I could do something so wildly different from what I’m known for, and that was really, really, really special to me."

Lana feels "so grateful" to have been given the opportunity to star in 'Valiant One', which focuses on a group of US soldiers who are trying to escape North Korea.

She shared: "I was so grateful to them for believing in me. It weirdly was something that I was dying to do and I just hadn’t really been given the opportunity to do it until they came to me."

The movie is especially meaningful for Lana because she comes from a "military family".

The actress explained: "I did so much research on women in the military. I come from a military family.

"My brother is currently serving in Japan. My uncle is a general. My grandparents served. And I had done so much research on women who are actively in the military. Something that I found was that I was really blown away by the sense of equality in that space. To be honest, I was surprised."