James Gunn Reveals Peacemaker's Bisexuality Was John Cena's Idea
With the season finale of Peacemaker on HBO Max giving viewers some closure to the surprise smash hit of 2022, people are still coming down from the high brought on by this unexpected-in-every-way series. It's one thing to make audiences genuinely care about a character who admits to killing men, women, and children in the interest of peace. But it's another entirely to give him and his team enough depth to bring them back for another season.
Not only is Peacemaker officially getting a second season (not bad for a spinoff of the excellent The Suicide Squad), but that character depth has expanded beyond simply what director James Gunn had even planned for the already eclectic group of hero-ish leads. According to a recent interview, there's at least one important aspect of John Cena's titular character Christopher Smith that wasn't necessarily in the script. But Cena himself added the idea of Smith being bisexual throughout his performance, and Gunn thought it fit so well that it became canon.
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During an Empire magazine interview in the publication's latest release, Gunn and Cena discussed how Peacemaker's bisexuality came about, and it was a surprisingly organic process. «John does improv all the time,» Gunn said, «and he just turned Christopher Smith into this hyper-sexualized dude that is open to anything sexually. I was surprised by that. But I thought, 'I guess it makes sense that this guy isn't one-dimensional.'» According to Gunn, some of this was helped along by Smith's relationship with Danielle Brooks' Leota Adebayo, with whom he forged a close (if complicated) friendship.
«She is his polar opposite in so many ways, politically,» Gunn explained. «She's a Black,
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