Warning: SPOILERS are forward for the Peacemaker Season 2 premiere!
Should you’re a Peacemaker fan pondering again to while you first streamed Season 1 along with your HBO Max subscription, what’s the very first thing that involves thoughts. Should you’re like me, it’s in all probability the opening dance quantity set to Wig Wam’s “Do You Wanna Style It.” For Peacemaker Season 2, which simply premiered on the 2025 TV schedule, present creator James Gunn determined to shoot a brand new dance quantity, this time set to Cunning Shazam’s “Oh Lord.” Here is a fast peek:
It seems like a worthy successor to what we received in Season 1, proper? Which may be, however a number of of the forged members defined to CinemaBlend why the dance quantity is completely different for this new batch of episodes, in addition to why it ended up being extra “strenuous.”
What Danielle Brooks And Freddie Stroma Stated About Season 2’s Dance Quantity
First, now we have Danielle Brooks and Freddie Stroma, who’re respectively again as Leota Adebayo and Adrian Chase/Vigilante, in Peacemaker Season 2. The actors knowledgeable our personal Hannah Saulic that for the pile of individuals on the finish of this “Oh Lord” sequence, they had been all informed by James Gunn to breathe heavy versus everybody being legitimately drained by all of the dancing. Brooks described that day as “loopy” with “lots of shifting components, and when Hannah requested if it was more durable studying Season 2’s dance quantity or Season 1’s, the duo responded:
Freddie Stroma: ‘I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t within the first one.’
Danielle Brooks: “Yeah, that is a enjoyable truth. Yeah, I used to be there and I might say the primary one, as a result of simply understanding the language of the motion was actually difficult. Like, what are we doing? This feels awkward. I do not get it. My physique do not need to do this. My physique desires to do that. In order that was exhausting at first. After which the second time, you perceive a little bit bit extra. So I used to be like, ‘Okay, I can do that.’”
For many who don’t know, Freddie Stroma is referring to the truth that Chris Conrad was initially forged as Vigilante and shot 5 and a half Peacemaker episodes earlier than leaving resulting from artistic variations. Stroma was then forged in his place and reshot or redubbed all of Conrad’s scenes. It seems like he’s only a tad disenchanted he wasn’t within the Peacemaker Season 1 dance sequence since Vigilante is costumed the entire time. Nevertheless, if Danielle Brooks is saying that one was more durable in comparison with what they did in Season 2, perhaps that’s for the very best.
What Steve Agee Stated About Season 2’s Dance Quantity
In a separate interview, I spoke with John Economos actor Steve Agee, who, along with revealing to me who was the “hardest” character to forged in Peacemaker Season 2, additionally opened up in regards to the new dance sequence. Having an interview the place Agee described the Season 1 dance as “strenuous,” I requested him how Season 2’s was compared, and he informed me:
Far more strenuous. We did the dance quantity for Season 1 in a day, and I do not even know if it was a full day. We additionally had much less individuals, so it was a little bit bit simpler. Season 2, I believe with the success of the present, and truthfully the success of simply the opening dance quantity alone… After that got here out, it was the primary factor I used to be requested about in interviews and stuff, individuals speaking in regards to the dance quantity.
As Agee, who’s additionally performed Economos in The Suicide Squad, Shazam! Fury of the Gods (which isn’t DCU canon) and Creature Commandos, additionally identified, it was inevitable that Peacemaker Season 2 would want a brand new dance quantity. Certain, perhaps “Do You Wanna Style It” may have been stored because the music, however all these characters who bit the mud in Season 1 necessitated new choreography on the very least. So from there, it was determined that Season 2’s dance needed to be a good larger endeavor. Agee continued:
And it was tough, man. I am not a dancer. I am not coordinated in any respect. if there was something within the present I used to be dreading… Not the truth that we needed to do one, I used to be sort of excited. I knew it could be cool as a result of it is already established that the primary one did so properly. It was identical to, ‘Oh my God, I’ve to fucking dance once more.’ And we shot it for two days, and oh my God, there have been so many individuals. It simply took endlessly, nevertheless it turned out so good.
Not solely did Freddie Stroma lastly get to participate in Peacemaker Season 2’s dance quantity, the established forged members had been joined by newcomers like Tim Meadows, Frank Grillo, Sol Rodríguez and Michael Rooker. Oh, and David Denman, whose function within the DCU present is not a thriller.
What David Denman Stated About Season 2’s Dance Quantity
It was revealed in “The Ties That Grind” that Denman is enjoying Keith Smith, an grownup model of Christopher Smith’s late brother who lives in one other universe. Not solely has Denman recognized James Gunn for years, he additionally goes means again with Clarissa Barton, who choreographed the Season 2 dance quantity. She’s married to Denman’s Juilliard classmate and buddy Alan Tudyk (who voiced Physician Phosphorous in Creature Commandos and Gary the Superman Robotic in Superman). So he welcomed getting the chance to work along with her, including:
I had a blast. That was the one query everybody had after I received the job. Are you within the dance? I am like, ‘Yeah, I am within the dance.’ They’re like, ‘Ahh, that is superior!’ So it was a little bit difficult doing the lifts and stuff with the costume and whatnot. However yeah, it was nice. It was enjoyable.
Hannah Saulic additionally introduced up how in Peacemaker Season 1’s dance quantity, everybody seems “triumphant” on the finish, whereas on the finish of Season 2’s, “ it simply seems like all people was drained” in that huge pile. Denman responded:
Effectively, I imply, on the finish of the dance of the primary one, they’re sort of going [breathes heavy]. In order that was meant to be mirrored into this one, that this isn’t one thing that’s simple for all of them. That took effort for them to all do that. However yeah, I imply, apart from James wanting that, I believe all of them sort of pile on high of one another, after which Eagly climbs on high. And so Clarissa was like, ‘Okay, properly you then go right here.’ Actually that was my final day of filming and I needed to like snuggle spoon John Cena backwards from behind. So I received to see how giant of a person he’s up shut, in individual.
There are seven episodes to go the place Peacemaker followers can see these actors dancing to “Oh Lord,” though I do know I’ll be rewatching it loads of instances on YouTube simply I’ve been doing the final three years with the “Do You Wanna Style It” quantity. New episodes of Peacemaker drop Thursdays on HBO Max, and you may also take a look at fellow DCU story Superman each in theaters and digitally.