James Gunn says Peacemaker was always bisexual: "It's just who the guy is"
꧑The Suicide Sq🧜uad director James Gunn discusses the decision to make Peacemaker bisexual

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While Christopher Smith's sexuality was never explicitly discussed in the comics, director 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn says that his version of Peacemaker was "alway🌃s" bisexual.
Peacemaker's bisexuality is revealed in a dark, heartbreaking moment in the first season's episode 7, when he shoots and kills his abusive father, Auggie Smith, AKA neo-nazi supervillain White Dragon. Moments 🎐before pulling the trigger, White Dragon berates him: "I knew you was unclean when you were born. I knew when you slept with the whores of polluted blood, and men."
The revelation made headlines as queer representation in the superhero world is few and far between. Gunn says that he and John Cena came up with the idea, and that💙 it ultimately felt n🐠atural.
"It🌞 was me and John talking about who he is," Gunn tells Total Film. "Peacemaker is a hypersexual guy and that has led him to be a sexual omnivore in a lot of ways."
Gunn compares Pea♉cemaker to Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks), the show's only other openly queer character – and one of three total LGBTQIA+ characters currently in the DCEU. Before Peacemaker, Birds of Prey introduced Renee Montoya, an openly gay former Gotham City detective.
"I think it's interesting because Adebayo is so traditionally liberal in so many ways, but sexually Adebayo is incredibly conservative," Gunn says. "I mean, she's married to one woman. They have a monogamous lifest꧒yle. And Peacemaker sexually is incredibly liberal. He♈’s a hedonist. That it’s just who the guy is."
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Gunn says that the discussion around Peacemaker's sex🍌uality ultimately came about because of Cena's riffs on the charact♚er.
"Most of the show, and almost all of Suicide Squad, is scripted," he continues. "But there's always a lot of riffing going on and it helps us get in the mood and throw things down. It was always tha🤪t that Peacemaker 🅠was talking about having sex with both men and women, and he treats them both like sexual conquest in a way."
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking ne♚ws for The Independent's Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.