In this interview conducted for the Herald, stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller talk about their new film War Dogs, an action drama based on a true story about two American entrepreneurs who exploited a loophole and blagged their way into an international arms deal.

In War Dogs, double Oscar nominee Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Miles Teller (Whiplash) play 20-something pals in Miami who blag their way into the high-stakes, big-money world of international arms trading. It’s a pretty far-fetched set-up that happens to be true.

Based on a 2011 Rolling Stone article entitled “Arms and the Dudes”, War Dogs chronicles how Efraim Diveroli (Hill) and David Packouz (Teller) exploited a loophole to score government contracts to supply weapons and ammunition to the American military.

“There’s definitely something enticing about watching people make it rich without following the rules,” Hill tells TimeOut in Los Angeles. “It’s why I’ve always loved gangster movies … movies where the guys with swagger win. Until they don’t.”