[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 3, “Another Rick Up My Sleeve.”]
Peacemaker delivers an enormous twist in Season 2’s third installment, “One other Rick Up My Sleeve,” as Joel Kinnaman reprises his function as Rick Flag Jr. in two types, one the model followers met in The Suicide Squad and the opposite the “jarhead” hinted at in Peacemaker‘s alternate dimension.
Whereas the episode opens with a flashback scene revealing that Rick Jr. and Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) had been having an affair, it goes on to disclose that alternate dimension Harcourt can also be concerned with the Rick from her universe amid Christopher Smith’s (John Cena) try and woo her when he wakes up in that world in the beginning of this episode following his boozy night time with the eleventh Road Children.
The revelation of Harcourt’s bond with Rick Jr. explains lots in terms of her preliminary hatred in direction of Peacemaker in Season 1; in spite of everything, Chris killed Rick Jr. throughout their mission in Corto Maltese. When it got here to Kinnaman’s return and incorporation into this storyline, sequence creator and DC Comics co-head James Gunn tells TV Insider that was a part of the plan “since earlier than we shot Season 1, that Harcourt and Rick Flag had had an affair and had been having an affair when he bought killed… however past that they had been additionally buddies, and Economos is buddies with him too.”
“That’s the rationale they’re so unfavorable in direction of Peacemaker when he comes on board firstly,” Gunn explains, “despite the fact that morally, clearly, Harcourt is as fluid as Peacemaker is all through Season 1.”
As for having Kinnaman step into the alternate dimension as “jarhead” Rick Flag, Gunn was excited to permit the actor to have some extra comedic moments as he nervously tiptoes round Chris. “Joel and I are good buddies, so I requested him to do me a favor, however I additionally wished to provide him a chance to do one thing that’s purely comedic, as a result of he’s a extremely humorous man,” Gunn explains.
“He’s by no means been in a comedy his complete life, so with the ability to present him doing this kind of namby-pamby model of Rick Flag Jr. … each time I watch these scenes, I snicker out loud,” Gunn admits.
Whereas the alternate dimension allowed for a Peacemaker-Rick reunion of kinds, it additionally opened Chris’s eyes to the fact of this new world, by which Harcourt is much less jagged across the edges and he’s a beloved hero. See what Holland has to say about embracing that different aspect of Harcourt within the alternate dimension, David Denman discuss donning Keith’s tremendous swimsuit, and Steve Agee discuss Economos’s reunion with Judomaster within the full video interview above.
Peacemaker, Season 2, Thursdays, HBO Max