After making his animated debut as Rick Flag Sr. within the HBO Max subscription-exclusive collection Creature Commandos, Frank Grillo performed his DC Universe character for the primary time in live-action in Superman final month. Nevertheless, there was one key distinction between his huge and small display screen depictions: hair colour. Flag was rocking Grillo’s regular black hair in Superman regardless of having white hair in Creature Commandos, and the actor has shared the explanation why this colour change, which evidently some didn’t deal with nicely, occurred.
Grillo defined to IGN that this stemmed from how his work on Superman overlapped with filming the Sylvester Stallone-led collection Tulsa King. As such, taking part in Invoice Bevilaqua on the Paramount+ subscription-exclusive present necessitated that his hair stay the identical colour, continuity points within the DC Universe apart. Because the actor recalled:
I believe the following time, in the event that they don’t fireplace me, the following time I’m in one thing, it’s white hair. I used to be on one other present, Tulsa King, and it was actually back-to-back and through [production on Superman], so I couldn’t. And folks actually weren’t proud of that…. They have been very imply about my darkish hair.
For the common moviegoer, Rick Flag Sr. having black hair isn’t an enormous deal, as they have been simply assembly the newly-appointed ARGUS director for the primary time. However for these already accustomed to him from Creature Commandos, I can perceive why they’d be confused by rhetorical sudden change. Nonetheless, did individuals actually need to be imply in entrance of Frank Grillo about it? It’s not like he made the choice to keep away from the white hair. Apart from, James Gunn already supplied an in-universe rationalization for this by telling Collider that Flag dies his hair for vainness causes.
By the way in which, Rick Flag Sr.’s black hair isn’t going away, as we’ll proceed seeing it when Peacemaker Season 2 premieres on the 2025 TV schedule subsequent month. Nevertheless, it feels like for the following undertaking Flag seems in after that, Frank Grillo will advocate for his character lastly boasting white hair. Let’s simply hope that 1, nothing dangerous occurs to Flag within the subsequent batch of Peacemaker episodes, and a couple of, Grillo doesn’t need to cope with scheduling overlaps with Tulsa King once more.
Rick Flag Sr. was final seen in Superman watching the Justice Gang thwart Boravia’s invasion of Jarhanpur, and Peacemaker Season 2 will see him trying to actual revenge on John Cena’s title character for killing his son, as depicted in 2021’s The Suicide Squad. The brand new season premieres on HBO Max August 21, and Tulsa King Season 3 will premiere September 21 on Paramount+.