‘Peacemaker’ Star Danielle Brooks on Joining the DC Universe: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anyone Like Myself in This World’

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‘Peacemaker’ Star Danielle Brooks on Joining the DC Universe: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anyone Like Myself in This World’
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“Peacemaker” stars John Cena as Christopher Smith, the titular costumed vigilante so committed to fighting for America that he doesn’t care who he must kill to save it. Writer-director …

created the HBO Max show as a spinoff his DC Comics feature, “The Suicide Squad,” which premiered in August. As in the movie, Cena’s superhuman physique is on ample display in the show, and several other characters — including the special agent Emilia Harcourt and the costumed assassin Vigilante — look like they were lifted straight from the pages of a DC comic book.will be the first to tell you that her character on the show, Leota Adebayo, does not resemble a typical comic book character.

So we ended up having a meeting, and we just hit it off. I explained to him [that] I’ve never seen anyone like myself in this world. It was really exciting for James to say, “I like you the way you are. I don’t want you to get all this training and try to lose 100 pounds” or all this stuff. He didn’t try to make me fit into his world. He said, “You already fit.” I really appreciated that.She’s trying to provide for a family.

Yeah. I used to have a list. I started doing research before getting this part of, like, if I were to ever be asked which [comic book] characters I could play, who do I actually look like? There are a few that look like me, actually, but when they’re reflected on TV or film, they change them completely. Their look does not reflect what you see in the comics.

James has more than proven himself as an enormously talented writer, but in your character’s case, he’s also a straight white guy writing a Black lesbian. Did you have any conversations with him about storylines or even turns a phrase that you thought your character would be, or would not be, saying?

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