As a tactical assist agent for A.R.G.U.S., John Economos has been an integral character in Peacemaker, which premiered its second season on the 2025 TV schedule final week. Nonetheless, one factor Steve Agee’s character has going in opposition to him is how troublesome it’s to pronounce his final named. The Peacemaker stars can’t appear to agree on which pronunciation is right, however Agee himself claims that fellow actor John C. Reilly has it discovered.
When our personal Hannah Saulic interviewed Steve Agee, who was seated subsequent to Sasha Bordeaux actress Sol Rodríguez, through the Peacemaker Season 2 junket, she began off the dialog by asking how Economos is pronounced. Agee stated that whereas Peacemaker creator/co-head of DC Studios James Gunn says “Econ-OH-Mos,” he says “Econ-IHm-IHs.” Then he shared:
Look, and by the way in which, and that is going to sound namedrop-y, it sort of is, however John C. Reilly instructed me that when he was rising up in Chicago, there was a household that lived subsequent door to them whose final identify was ‘Economos.’ John stated, ‘Econ-IHm-IHs.’ He stated it the way in which I say it. John Ostrander, who created The Suicide Squad, based mostly John Economos on an individual he truly knew who lived in Chicago. And so I’ve a sense that the true John Economos lived subsequent door to John C. Reilly. So I’ll maintain saying ‘Econ-IHm-IHs.’ That’s a protracted approach to get to a brief reply.
Whereas the primary model of the Suicide Squad was launched in 1959, John Ostrander did certainly provide you with the fashionable incarnation of the workforce that the general public is aware of greatest, i.e. the place incarcerated supervillains are despatched on harmful missions in alternate for leniency and lowered sentences. John Economos has been round 1987’s Suicide Squad #1, and in an odd accident, it’s fully doable that the true life Economos that Ostrander based mostly the character on is identical one that John C. Reilly knew manner again when in Chicago.
Somebody ought to ask Reilly (who was directed by James Gunn for his small position in Guardians of the Galaxy) in regards to the John Economos he knew, after which these particulars could possibly be matched in opposition to ones that John Ostrader can present about his Economos. Or possibly somebody can prepare contact between the 2 males to allow them to evaluate notes and we will get a definitive reply. Extra importantly, nevertheless, is that Agee has Reilly to again him up on the pronunciation of Economos. I’ll be trustworthy although, I nonetheless discover myself following James Gunn’s lead in saying, “Econ-OH-Mos.”
Pronunciation apart, we’ll see John Economos proceed to assist out John Cena’s Christopher Smith and the remainder of their allies as Peacemaker Season 2 unfolds. The present’s long-awaited arrival additionally comes over half a 12 months after Steve Agee vocally reprised his character within the animated sequence Creature Commandos, which may be streamed with an HBO Max subscription as properly.