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John David Washington plays an operative known as "Protagonist" in writer-director Christopher Nolan's sci-fi espionage film Tenet — out July 31 and on Entertainment Weekly's latest cover.

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Washington suits up with Jack Cuttmore-Scott, left, and Robert Pattinson.

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Washington and Rich Ceraulo Ko make for an explosive combination in the Tenet prologue.

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Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh’s couple seem to be having marital problems.

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Nolan directs Washington on the bullet hole-ridden set of Tenet.

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Pattinson’s character “operates in this twilight world of secret services,” says Nolan.

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Nolan says that the relationship between Debicki and Washington in the film "is ambiguous and complicated.”

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To read more on Tenet, order the July issue of Entertainment Weekly now. Don’t forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW.

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