James Gunn On How ‘Peacemaker’ “Has A Lot Of Issues” – TCA

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John Cena’s mercenary character in DC’s Peacemaker may not exactly be the most politically correct guy by today’s measure in his expletives to friends, enemies and waitresses.Peacemaker follows the DC superhero who is dedicated to world peace and how he’s prepared to use force of arms to achieve it.Asked at today’s TCA session for the Max Original series spinoff of Warner Bros.

The Suicide Squad, as to why the character has a lot of blind spots when it comes to race, and how the character is a spitting image of jingoistic racist America, creator James Gunn answered, “Peacemaker has a lot of issues.”“I don’t sit down and say ‘Oh, how am I gonna make this character likable.’ I make it as fully fleshed as possible, and one of the things that I