His father may be one of the toughest actors ever to grace the big screen but Scott Eastwood recently admitted in an interview with E!Online that while he was on the set of Suicide Squad he kept his distance from Jared Leto’s Joker because he “didn’t want to mess with his thing…”
If your last name is Eastwood then you aren’t afraid of anything, that’s the rule right?, but Scott’s tongue-in-cheek admission that he was hesitant to speak to Leto during filming backs up claims that Leto is going full Daniel Day Lewis on his Joker role:
Eastwood says, “I think I was sort of afraid to approach him because I didn’t want to mess with his thing going on. I knew him before. I’d met him before he was the Joker. I just met him as Jared Leto. I didn’t know if I wanted to mess with his thing.”
Despite the scathing backlash from comic-book fans when Leto’s version of the Joker was initially unleashed online, most of the criticism has died down now after a plethora of set photos and even a video “leaked” on the internet. The sheer quantity of set photos from Suicide Squad suggests that either they have the worse security ever or David Ayer and co. wanted to keep us all happy in the aftermath of the Joker’s reveal. Either way the director also recently claimed that despite all those “leaked” set pics that there’s still plenty o fbig secrets that haven’t yet been revealed.
In the same interview Scott Eastwood – whose role in Suicide Squad hasn’t been confirmed yet – spoke highly of David Ayer and the physicality he likes to bring to his films:
“[David Ayer] is doing something the world will be really surprised about. We’re doing a lot of our own stunts. Really physical. David is a very physical filmmaker. He wants everyone doing their own stuff. He doesn’t hire guys who aren’t willing to do that.”
Suicide Squad hits theaters on August 5th 2016 and boasts an impressive cast including Will Smith (Focus) as Deadshot, Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) as The Joker, Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) as Captain Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop) as Rick Flagg, Viola Davis (The Help) as Amanda Waller, Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns) as Enchantress, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Thor: The Dark World) as Killer Croc, Ray Olubowale (Resident Evil: Afterlife) as King Shark, Jay Hernandez (Hostel) as El Diablo, Adam Beach (Flags Of Our Fathers) as Slipknot, Jim Parrack (Fury) as Johnny Frost, Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project) as Hugo Strange, newcomer Karen Fukuhara as Katana, and Common (Selma) and Scott Eastwood (The Longest Ride) and in as-yet-unconfirmed roles.
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Originally published June 7, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
