Jonah Hauer-King on His ‘Frightening’ Role in ‘A House of Dynamite’ and Sharing Scenes With Idris Elba: ‘Two Arsenal Fans Making Monumental Decisions About the U.S. Military’

Jonah Hauer-King has a line in “A House of Dynamite” so disturbing that friends are now texting it to him as soon as they see the film. “Some don’t write anything other than that line,” he says.

Charting the chaos within America’s halls of power as an atomic bomb hurtles toward the U.S., Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller — landing on Netflix Friday — sees the busy actor play a clean-cut military aide tasked with shadowing the president (Idris Elba) while carrying the famed satchel of nuclear strike options and launch codes. In one late scene, with retaliation apparently the only choice and the satchel well and truly opened, he compares three scenarios of expanding apocalyptic proportions with the chilling calm as if he was reading out choices on a lunch menu.

“We actually call them rare, medium and well done,” he tells the considerably more distressed Potus. ‘Well done,…