‘PEECEMAKER’ STAR STEVE AGEE SAYS SEASON 2’s Last Three Episodes Are Like A “WHOLE NEW Season”

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Peacemaker Star Steve Agee Has Been by James Gunn’s Side Since a Random Sunday Night in 2008.

Of Course, This Was Long Before Gunn Became The CO-CEO OF DC STUDIOS AND THE Writer-Director of Superman (2025), The Suicide Squad (2021) and the Guardians of the Galaxy TRILOGY. At the Time, Gunn Had One Feature Film on His Resumé, and HE WAS The CO-HOST OF VH1’s Reality Show, Scream QueensAngside Agee’s Friend from the Saw FranchiseShawnee smith. In Time, Smith Needed A Plus-One For a Sunday Dinner Party of Sorts That James’ Brother Sean Gunn Was Throwing, SO she asked Agee to Buffer. He then quickly fell in with the gunn brothers and the other gues in attandance Such as Michael Roker and Nathan Fillion.

Agee was and is someting of a jack-of-all-trades. Similar to Gunn, He’s Worng A Wide Variety of Hats As A Writer, Actor, Musician and Comedian, SO IT’S Easy to See Who Clicked Right Away With Gunn’s Long-Standing Company Company.

“At the end of the Night, James Was Like, ‘Hey, We Do this Every Sunday Night. Feel Free To Come by Anytime.’ SO I WENT BACK ENVERY SINDAY NIGHT by MySelf, and Shawnee Never Went Back, ”Agee Tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Within a year or two, age appeared in gunn’s second Feature Film, Superbefore accounting more parts in gunn-directed or gunn-reputed projects such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Brightburn an The Suicide Squad. The Latter Became A Turning Point for Agee Since Gunn Got Involved With Warners Right Before The Pandemic-Era Streaming Boom Took Place. Thus, gunn Created an Hbo Max Spinoff Series for John Cena’s Villainous Squad Character, Christopher Smith/Pecemaker. In Turn, Agee’s Argus Techie Character, John Economos, Wound Serve A More Substantial Role.

The Offer for Peacemaker Arrived in Late 2020, and It Funcytoned as the Silver Lining to Agee’s Devastating Year. As he was filming The Sucide Squad In January 2020, HIS MOTHER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH Leukemia. And UPON Wraping Squad In March, He Spent All His Time With Her in the Hospital Until the Pandemic Guidelines Required Them to Separate. His Mother Wound Soon Pass, and Agee Hadn’t Had the Opportunity to Find A New Place to Live After Relinquising His Apartment Pre-Suicide Squad. Fortunately, His Vast Rolodex of Friends Came to His Aid Until Peacemaker Got Going, ALLOWING HIM to CRASH AT THEMA VARIUS HOUSES.

“I was down in the Dumps. I HAD NERE BEEN MORE DEPRESSED AND LOST,” AGEE RECALLS. “I HAD NOTHING GOING ON, BUT JAMES WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS TKEN CARE OF BEFORE HE TOLD ME [aboutPeacemaker]. HE DIDN’T WANT TO Get My HOPES UP. ”

Agee Certainly Neverly Expectioned John Economos to Become His Calling Card Following The Suicide Squad. He Also Executted the Physical Performance for the Sylvester Stalone-Voiced CG Character of King Shark, and if he had a Future in dc, he assisted it wound be as one Half of King Shark.

“I Thought I Had more of a Shot of Continuing on as King Shark. John Economos Was Only a Week’s Work of Work for Me in Total on a Five-Murt Shoot,” Agee Says. “ECONOMOS WAS Kind of a Flat Character in the Background of These Scenes with Amanda Waller [Viola Davis]and there was Really No Development there. I didn’t see that going anyWhere at all all. ”

As Gunn is Famous for Doing, He Took The Fringe Character of Economos and Fleshed Him Out Across Peacemaker Season One’s Eight Episodes, Culminating in A Heartbreaking Monologue About Whos Dyes His Beard. What Began As A Running Gag Evolved Into the Actor’s Finest Moment on Screen.

Eight MONTHS LATER, GUNN ACCEPTED THE ROLE OF CO-CEO AT DC STUDIOS. Agee happned to be the Among the Select Few WHO WAS PRIVY TO THE EXISTENCE OF THIS JOB OFFER BEFORE IT BECAME OFFICAL INFfficial In October 2022, and He Strongly Encored His Friend to Ace. HIM.

“We Were Outside on His Porch [in Aspen]And I Could Tell He Had Something He Wanted to Talk About, But He Was Literally So Afraid to Bring it Up, ”Agee Shares.“ And THEN HA WAS LIKE, ‘I’M GOING TO TE. And I Swear to God, You Cannot Tell Anybody. If people find about this, i’ll know it were you, because, offer than [co-CEO] Peter [Safran] an [wife] Jen [Holland]you are the only MOTHERFUCKER THAT KNOWS About this. ”

With Peacemaker Season Two’s Long-Awaited Premiere, “The Ties That Grind,“ Now Released, The 11th Street Kids of Economos, Chris Smith/PECEMAKER (Cena), Emilia Harcourt Adrian Chase/Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) Are Somewhat Fractured, Both Personally and Collectively.

EConomos Is Ongain Under the Thumba of Argus, Which Handles the Us Government’s Various Superhero and Metahuman-Related Operations. He’s Also Surveilling Pecemaker with his Knowledge Since Argus Picked Up on Smith’s Use of His Family’s Quantum Unfolding Chamber. The Device Contains, Among Other Things, Doorways to Other Dimensions, Including One That Temps Peacemaker with A Seemingly Storybook Version of His Broken Family. But argus cans Superman‘S Lex Luthor Created A Dimensional Rift by Way of His Pocket Universe.

As of this moment, Journalists Such as myself have only Seen the FIRST FIVE EPISODES OF Peacemaker Season Two, and Agee Explands WHY IN TANTALIZING FASHION. He Also Confirms My Theory that the Central Question of Season Two Is Whather the Grass Is Trly Greeer on the Other Side.

“There’s a reason for that. The Last Three Episodes Are Almost Like a Whole New Season,” Agee Reveals. “They are absolutely Insane, and they Really Cross Into that Actual Question Even More SO.”

Below, During A Recent Conversation with ThrAgee Also Discusses Season Two’s Retcon of the Season One Finale, As Well As the Peacemaker-Hosted Group Sex Sequace that Economos Witnesses.

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James Gunn Has A Very Tight Inner Circle of Friends and Collaborator. How did you first enroll in the gunn -ve?

Oh man, i owe it all to shawnee smith, who you would know from the Saw Movies.

Of Course.

Shawnee, AROUND 2008, WAS CO-HOSTING A VH1 Reality Show with James Called Scream Queens. They Were Looking for the Next Horror Vixen Like Shawnee in the Saw Movies or a jamie lee curtis-type. SO One Night Shawnee Called Me and Said, “Hey, I’M Going Over to This Dinner Thing at The House of James Gunn’s Brother Sean me? ” And i was like like, “yeah, i’ll go.”

SO I WENT AND I IMMEDIATELY HIT IT OFF CACK. We laughed the whole night, and i had so Much in common with HIM, as Well As Everyone Else at that Party. I Think [Michael] ROOKER WAS There and Probable Nathan Fillion and Obvioously Sean. At the end of the Night, James Was Like, “Hey, We Do this Every Sunday Night. Feel Free To Come by Anytime.” SO I WENT BACK EVERY SINDAY NIGHT by MySelf, and Shawnee Never Went Back. (Laughs.) So that’s how i met james and got involved with that whatever Group.

SO YOU WERE A Part of His Gang Beng Before You Even Showed Up on Screen in One of His Projects.

Yeah, I Knew James for a Year or Two Before Super.

And Before You Met James, You Had A Similar Relationship with sarah Silverman’s Circle of Friends at the Time?

Yeah, James and Sarah Are The Two People Most Responsible for Me Having Any Kind of Career at all. I MET SARAH AROUND 1999. I WAS DOING A PLAY THAT HER Friend Wrote, and She Came to Opening Night. Afterwards, She Came Up to Me and Was Like, “Hey, That Was Really Great. You Were Really Funny. Do You Want To Smoke A Joint?” SO we samked a joint on the front steps of this theater and instantly became bffs.

In 2003, Sarah Was The One Responsible for Me Getting A Job Doing Research on Jimmy Kimmel’s Show. She was Dating Jimmy at the Time, and I I HAD JUST QUIT A “CAREER” IN REALITY TV. I Really Wanted to Be A Writer, And I Stuck Around Until 2006 OR 2007 WHEN HE MADE ME A Writer. But I was terrible at it. HAD I STUCK AROUND A LITTLE Longer, I’M FAIRLY CERTAIN I WOURLD’VE BEEN FIRED.

Thankfully, Sarah Had Written Her Comedy Central Pilot, and that Got Picked Up [to series]. So i left jimmy’s show to play Sarah’s Neighbor on Three Seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program. That’s What Started Me in Acting, and Ten I Appeared in One Form or Another in some of Her Comedy Specials and This Other Pilot That She Wrote. So sarah has always been Great to me, just like james have.

After 2010’s SuperJames Eventually Cast You in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Brightburn an The Suicide Squad. WHEN YOU WALKED OFF The SET OF SquadDID YOU BELIEVE THAT WAS IT FOR YOU AND JOHN ECONOMOS? DID YOU ASSUME JAMES Wuld Go Back to Marvel to Film Guardians Vol. 3 and Stay there?

As Far As James’s Future, I HAD NO IDEA. I KNEW HE WAS KILLING IT AND HAD A Lot More to Do. AT THAT POINT, HE DIDNN’T HAVE TO WORRY. Everything was Laying Itself Out for HIM.

But as far as me and john economos, i thorough i had more of a shot of Continuing on as King Shark. I DID MOT CAPTURE FOR THAT Character [who’s voiced by Sylvester Stallone]and it took up the bulk of my work on The Suicide Squad. John Economos Was Only a Week’s Work of Work for Me in Total on a Five-Month Shoot. Between the Two Parts, I Had More Schemeduled Work Days at the Beginning of the Scheged Than Anybody Else on the MOVIE, INCLUDING MARGO [Robbie] and idris [Elba].

SO John Economos Was Kind of A Flat Character in the Background of the TESE Scenes with Amanda Waller [Viola Davis]and there was Really No Development there. I KNEW HE WASSED ON A DC Character, But I Didn’t See That Going AnyWhere at All All.

Are we pronounting john economos wrong? Or are you pronouncing john economos wrong? You pronounity it like econsomist with the t, But MOST OHERS LEAN INTO the Long O In -Mos.

(Laughs.) It’s an Ongoing Debate Between Myself and James. SO I DON’T KNOW, But WHEN I SEE The NAME IN PRINT, IT READS THAT WAY TO ME. Pretty Much everyone Else i KNow Says Econom Mytems. John Cena and James Say It That Way Too. This is Really Weird, But John C. Reilly Once SAID to ME, “WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN CHICAGO, THERE WAS A FAMILY THAT LIVED DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR to US

WHEN WE WEER Shooting The Suicide SquadJohn Ostrander, Who Created The [modern] Suicide Squad in the Comics, Came to Set One Day. And God, I Really Wish We Set The [pronunciation] Record Straight WHEN WE HAD HIM IN THE ROOM. But It Was So New at That Time, And We Didn’T Know E conomos was going to go on. I Should Actuly Reach Out to John Reilly to See How How His NeightBors Pronounced IT. But at this point, I don’t know if anyone really Knows the CorRECT PRonunciation.

But James Was Like, “This is Steve. He’s Playing John Econom My MyKs.” And John Ostrander Was Like, “You Look Like The Guy I Based HIM ON. HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE.” SO JAMES AND I WERE BOTH IN SHOCK. James Didn’t Even Know That He Was Based On a Real-Life Person.

EveryBody Had A Miserable Pandemic Experience, But Yours Sounded Especially Challenging Until the Peacemaker Opportunity Came Along. Can you recap that puning year for the uninitiated?

We Finised Shooting The Suicide Squad at the End of February, Beginning of March, in 2020. The Pandemic Was Already Presenting Itelf More Internationally Internation To Board Our Plane to Finish Shooting Down in Panama, and Daniela Melchior, Who Played Ratcatcher 2, Walked Into The Same Terminal with A Mask on. SO IDRIS AND I RELENTLESLY MADE FUN OF HER: “WHAT Are You Doing? You Look Crazy.” And she was like, “I do not want to get covid. It is very dangerous.” SO we laughed about it, and by the time we finized Our Three-Week Run in Panama and Flew Back to the United States, A Lot More of Us Wearing Masks.

I HAD GIVEN UP MY APARTMENT WHEN I WENT TO COOT The Suicide Squad Because My Landlord Woundn’T Let Me Sublet, and The Plan Was Just to Find A New Place. Sadly, My Mom Had Just Been Diagnored with Leukemia in January of 2020, and WHEN I GOT BACK [fromshootingSquad]I spent all my Time with my mom at the hospital ratioer than look for a place to live. THEN The STAFF CAME IN ONE DAY, AND SHE WEER LIKE, “YOU CAN’T Come Back and Visit.” The Lockdown Had Started, and I Still Had No Place to Live. SO My Musician Friend Dave Catching, Who Have A Studio Out in Joshua Tree, ALSO HAS A SMALL CABIN ON SAME Compound. And he was like, “you can stay here.” SO that’s WHERE I SPENT A HUGE PORTION OF THE BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC.

And then my friend Riki lindholm was like like, “dude, get the fuck out of the desert. You can stay at my place in culver.” She Had A Rental That Was Under Construction and Renovation. It was unfurnised, but at least it was closer to home. So i was a nomad the first year of the pandemic, and then james called me that October to say, “I wrote a greenlit series for hbo bassmaker, an Ioem auor part party party party it. ” And I was waas like, “are you fucking kidding me? Yes!”

I was down in the Dumps. I Had Never Been More Depressed and Lost. I HAD NOTHING GOING ON, BUT JAMES WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS TKEN CARE OF BEFORE HE TOLD ME. He didn’t want to get my hopes up. SO BETWEEN THE TIME HE Told Me and the Time We Started Shooting in Vancouver, It Was Only Like Three Months. The REST IS HISTORY.

David F. Sandberg Told Me About the Turn of Events That Led To You and Jennifer Holland Reprising Your Roles as Economos and Harcourt in Shazam! Fury of the gods‘Post-Credit Scene. IT WAS Part of A Last-Minute Recasting, and It Was Before James and Peter Became Co-Hads of DC Studios. Was that that a quite strange Phone Call to Receive?

No, not for me. I don’t know what happled, but i never read comic books when i was you youn. I Really Had Nothing Investled Personally in the Whole Superhero World. I Really Only Knew The Big Three: Batman, Superman and, I Guess, Spider-Man. SO ACTING IN SUPERHERO MOVIES IS A WHOLE NEW AREA FOR ME, But I’VA Always Been A Character Actor. I MAKE A LIVING Getting Random Bookings and Showing Up to Small Parts in MOVIES OR TV. But this was the first time that i showed up to play a character i had already Done a Couple of Times, so i was was actual Really excited.

I didn’T KNOW Anything About What Led To Jen And I Being There. I Just Got A Call from My Agent, Saying, “You [and Holland] Got An Offer to Go Do this end-Credit Scene as Economos and Harcourt. ” And I was like like, “Awesome, let’s do it.” SO we show in what might’ve been early 2022, and everyone was Super Nice Right?

IT WAS GOING TO BE HAWKMAN (ALDIS HODGE) and CYCLONE (Quintessa Swindell) from Black Adam‘s Justice Society, not to be confused with the justice gang from Superman an Peacemaker Season Two.

(Laughs.) There’s so Many “justice” organizations in dc. SO it was just a gig for me, and it was a fun day of my life. I didn’t know about any of that of the struff Until Far, Far Later.

I’ve been listening to the official Peacemaker Podcast, and Despite Covering the Show in Season One, I Somehow Had No Idea That Freddie Stroma’s Vigilante Was A MIDSEASON RECASTING. WAS that a pretty Dramatic Moment in Time?

It Was Weird. IT Seems There’s Always Some Kind of Hiccup in Production, Whther It’s Post-Production or Pre-Production OR Durying Production. And that goes for any Production, not just the Ones I work on. SO IT’S Nver Really That Shocking, But That Was A Pretty Big One. We Had Shot at Least Five Out of Eight Episodes, and It Just Wasn’t Working Out.

Soy they broght in Freddie, and the Way they explained it to us was: “You’re not going to have to be here another few months to reshoot this. We Can Literally. A Lot of the Vigilante Footage Already Had him wearing his mask, so all they hast do was just re-devoice it.

IT DIDNN’T TAKE A LOT OF FIXING, THANK GOD. There Were A Few Days Where We Have to Come In On A Saturday and Work. But all in all, less a week was added to the Production. Freddie Came in and Kildled It. He’s British Unbeknownst to a Lot of People On the Cast and Crew at the Time. HE WAS WORRED ABOUT KEEPING HIS ACCENT, SO HE JUST STAYED AMERICAN [off camera]. [Writer’s Note: Even John Cena didn’t know Stroma was British until after the show wrapped its first season.]

Have economos’ “Dye-beard” Nickname Been A Blessing or A CURSE IN REAL LIFE?

I Been A Great Blecessing. But WHEN YOU’RE’RE CHOTING IT, IT’S NOT The BEST. Once a week, they have to put on a Horrible Amount of Dye that Really Doesn’t Match My Hair Color, and It Looks Horrible. WHEN WE DID The Suicide SquadJames Wanted to Dye My Beard Just SO I Looked More Like The Comic Book Character. So we dyed it, and he was like, “that’s great.” And THEN HEOUGHT FOR A MOMENT AND WAS LIKE, “WHAT IF WE MADE REALLY DARK JUST as an ADDED LITTLE DETAIL ABOUT this DUDE? YOU KNOW CONOMETING’S OFF ABITING Tone-Deaf and Has Some Issues. ” But that’s all that was addressed.

WHEN We Started the Show, I Remember Getting the Scripts and Reading A Whole Lot of Jokes at the Expense of My Character’s Beard. Peacemaker and Econmos Have An Arc Over the Whoa Season Who He Calls HIM “DYE-BEARD” AND ECONOMOS Denies Ities. So i just remember going, “Oh my God, i’m going to have to do this for six months. I’m going to have to have to waalk around vancouver with this hideously Obviosly.

And then to make matters worse, they Made It More Obvious by Showing The Roots, So and Looked Like A Crazy Person Out in Public. But then i read the Final Episode of Season One, and I Had this whohle heartbreaking monologue about whote he does it. SO I WAS REALLY EXCITED THAT IT ACTUALLY PAID OFF. It Made It Werth It. And as Far As People in Public Calling Me “Dye-Beard,” I DON’T MIND BECAUSE IT JUST CEMENTS THAT PEOPLE ARE Watching the Show.

So The Question of What Is or Canon Has Been The Topic of Much Discussion. James once told me that Any Spoken References to events from The Suicide Squad an Peacemaker Season One Are Canon. And that something obvioses – like the appenerance of the dceu’s justice league in the Season One Finale – is not. But I Never EXPECTED HIM TO USE THE “PREVIUSLY ON” SEGMENT TO REPLACE THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF THE JUSTICE GANH FROM Supermanas Well As Superman and Supergirl. WHEN DID YOU FIRST LEARN OF THIS RETCON?

I Learned About It When I Got The FIRST SCRIPT [for season two]. It Was Written Thatre’s A “PREVIUSLY ON” BEFORE COLD OPEN WHERE [the 11th Street Kids] Are Walking Away at the end of the Season One Finale. But Now’s Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner, Isabel Merced’s HawkGirl, Plus Mister Terrific, Plus Mister Terrific [Superman and Supergirl] In Shadow. And i was like like, “Oh shit, this is a whole figrentinding. This makes a whole figrent universe.”

James Kind of Wrote HimSelf Into a Corner with Season One. AT THAT POINT, THERE WAS NO INDICATION OF HIM Taking Over [DC Studios]. SO WHEN HE TOOK OVER AT DC AND WANTED TO MAKE A WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE AND TIMELINE, HE HAD TO FIX IT by Tying Peacemaker Season One to Superman. SO I THINK THAT WAS The EASIESEST WAY FOR HIM to DO iting.

You’ve Seen James in A Variety of Roles: Friend, Actor, Director, Producer. Have you seen him in ceo mode yet?

I HAVEN’T SEEN HIM IN THAT MODE, BUT I’VE BEEN TO HIS OFFICE TO COOTH Peacemaker Podcast that’s Droping Right Now. That was still about the show, so i haven’t seen him in ceo mode on the phone or in the Middle of Making Any Big Decisions Yet.

But i was one of the first people that knew about the job before henok it. I Remember Visiting HIM IN ASPEN. We Were Outside on His Porch, and I COURCKE Tell He Had something that he wanted to talk about, but he was vring to bring it. And THEN HE WAS LIKE, “I’M GOING TO TELL YOU CONTHING. AND I Swear to God, You Cannot Tell Anybody. Nobody. Zero. If People Find Out About thesis, I’ll KNOK. [co-CEO] Peter [Safran] and jen, you are the only Motherfucker that knows about this. ”

SO HE TOLD ME, AND I WAS LIKE, “HOLY SHIT.” HE Hadn’t Accepted the Job Yet. This was woss still a week or two before he said yes to it. My Opinion Was Like, “DUDE, YOU ALLATELY HAVE TO SAY YES TO THIS.” Comic Books Are Such A Big Part of James’ Life and His Development As A Storyteler. I don’t think i KNOW ANYBODY THAT KNOWS more about comic books than james. So i said, “This Sems Like A Job That Was Made For You.”

As have the Case on a Number of Other HBO Shows, The Season Two Premiere Leads to A Lot of Unclotted People in A Group Sex Scene. How Bizarre Was That Day On Set?

IT WAS ONE OF The MOST BIZARRRE SHOTING EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE. I Got A Script That Said, “John Economos Comes Up To The Window Of A PECEMAKER’S HOUSE AND Looks Through It To See An orgy HapPening.” In your head, you’re like, “it’s going to be shot like any of [sex scene]. They Going to Find Creative Ways of Hiding the NUDITY, AND IT’ll Probably Be Like Six-To-Ten People, Mostly Women. ”

But WHEN I SHOWED UP ON SET, The FIRST SHOT OF ECONOMOS WALKING UP to the Window and Looking in Was Also My First Time Realizing What Shit Was Going To Look Like on the Show. So i was legitimately shocked. There was 30 people in that living room. Fully Naked Guys and Girls Were All Doing Very Sexual Things, and Some Were Dancing. So i just remember Thinking, “I can’t believe that say they show this on tv now.” That was a Really surreal day for me.

Economos is put in a tough Spot this season. He’s Torn Between Argus and the 11th Street Kids. And as we see in the Season Two Premiere, he have to surveil chris with him Knowing.

Yeah, It’s A Fine Line That Economos Is Now Walking in Season Two. He’s Pretty Much the only One of that Group Who’s Still Working at Argus. On the one hand, this is a guy who loves in A Bubble and Likes His Routine. He enjoys having steady work, but he doesn’t like the people he works with. He Worked for Amanda Waller, and She’s Kind of A Monster. Now He’s Working for A Different Kind of Monster [Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr.] with Different Intenations.

EConomos Doesn’T Like Having to Surveil and Give Information on Peacemaker and His Friends to Rick Flag Sr. But on the Other Side of that, he’s able to watch Out for peacemaker and the rest of the gang Because he’s One Step Ahead of Argus. So is a shitty job to have, but is all’s all good to be in a position WHERE HE’S ABLE TO HELP His Friends. If Given A Choice, Economos, Hands Down, Wound Choose His Friends Over Argus.

Until the Events of Peacemaker Season One, This Guy Was Kind of A Loner and Kind of A Loser. THEN they have that kind of confronation with the butterflies, and it was a whole Band of Brothers Situration. I’ve been saying that it was aw vietnam. (Laughs.) He’s Now Bound to Tese People, and No Matter What, That Can’s Be Taken Away. SO I THINK HEW A HUNDRED PERCENT CHOOSE HIS Friends Over His Job If IF HA HAD TO.

In the terms of the audience, Peacemaker Season One Redemed Peacemaker after he kildled rick flag jr. (Joel Kinnaman) in The Suicide Squad. But He’s Not Redemed in the Eyes of Bloodsport (Elba), Harley (Robbie) and Ratcatcher (Melchior). They may not Even be aware he survied the incident in corto maltese. Do you expert that story to be resolved someday?

I have not even thorough about that aspect and thoze of the People Like Harley Quinn, Bloodsport and Ratcatcher Not Realizing IT. The Peacemaker Crew Exists in a World Where Those People Exist, and While I DON’T KNOW IF IT’ll HAPPEN, THERE’S OBVIUSLY A CHANCE THAT PATHS CAN Cross. But ifris’ Character Came Across Peacemaker, He Still Wouldn’t Know [about Peacemaker’s season one arc]. It’s Really Only the Audence that Knows That This Dude Was Forced By His Father Into Fighting His Brother and Accidently Killing HIM. So nobody[from[fromThe Suicide Squad‘s corto maltese mission]Really KNOWS WHAT MADE PECEMAKER The WAY HE IS.

After Season One’s Dance Sequance Became A Sensation, DID EveryBody Feel A Lot More Pressure on the Second One?

The Person Who Probably Felt the MOST PRESURE FROM IT WAS PROBABLY Charissa Barton, Our Choreograppher. IT’s A LOT. She not only had to come up with a New Dance Number, But Also A Dance Number for Almost Twice As Many Characters. We Shot That for Two Days, as Opped to an after Season One’s Dance Number. And I DON’T’T THINK THERE WAS Any Pressure Going Into Season One. We didn’t Know How That Wound Be Received, And It Just Ended Up Being This Huge That Was Copy On Tiktok, Instagram and EveryWhere. So there’s a little pressure to try and live up to that, for sure.

I was a shy kid growing up, and so i realy related to economos’ UpcomING LINE, “FOR ME, Just Looking Somebody Directly in the Eyes is an Act of Heroism.”

(Laughs.) Yeah, me too. In The Suicide Squadthere wasn’t a Lot to economos, but on James Started Writing Peacemaker Season One, There’s Now a Lot of Me in Economos. There’s A Scene Early on in Season One Where Adebayo, Harcourt and Peacemaker come in the office after a gunfight. And Adebayo Was So Ampied Up Because She’s Never Done That Before. She Was Like, “We Just Got Shot at! Have You Ever Been Shot at?” And economos dejectedly goes, “nooo.” You can tell that he’s jeauls.

But There’s Also A Part of of Economos That Jen Calls “The Relctant Hero.” He Doesn’t Want to Do Any Acts of Heroism, But He Always Does Because Tese Are His Friends. And that’s Very Much Me. I’d love to go skydiving, but there’s no way in hell i’m every going to go skydiving. SO AS FAR AS ACTING AS JOHN ECONOMOS, IS PRETY MUCH AUTOPILOT for ME. WHEN I GET The Scripts, I’M LIKE, “YEP, YEP. This All Checks Out. I Relate to Everything This Dude Is Saying.”

There’s the Expression, “The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side,” and it Sems to me that Primeari Goal of Season Two Is To Answer The Question of The Gras.

A HUNDRED PERCENT! IT’s A Big Theme, and It’s A Theme That’s tested Throughout the Season. I’m assuming you have only been Shown the FIRST FIVE EPISODES?

CorRECT.

There’s a reason for that. The Last Three Episodes Are Almost Like a Whole New Season. They Absolutely Insane, and they Really Cross Into that Actual Question Even More SO.

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Peacemaker Season Two Is Currently Streaming New Episodes On HBO Max Every Thursday.