Suicide Squad Actor Reveals “Rough Improv” Featuring Jared Leto’s Joker

Improvisation became rare between one of suicide squadThe supporting actors and Jared Leto while playing the Joker.

Ike Barinholtz appeared in the Star-Studded 2016 DC Movie as Captain Hunter Griggs, an officer at the Belle Reve prison complex where agents of Task Force That suicide squad The scene in which Griggs came face to face with Joker for the first time led to an awkward moment that Barinholtz recently recalled.

On your podcast Funny you should ask Ike BarinholtzThe main host told Seth Meyers how, while filming suicide squadThere was a moment when Leto improvised by asking Barinholtz if he wet himself while he was being straddled. Barinholtz was not particularly happy with Leto going off script in this way and said:

I remember I had to do this scene with him, and he was actually nice even though he was in character, but he was supposed to be threatening me in the scene. So I was acting scared, you know? I was like, “Oh, no, please…” And at some point, he’s straddling me and he’s like, “Uh oh, did someone pee their pants?” And I’m a yes-ander, so I said, “Yes.” It’s a rude improvisation to say to someone. Like, “Oh, someone took a shit.” It’s not cool.

Leto’s Joker had no problem violating personal space, as evidenced by how he greeted Griggs while his henchmen looked on. While it is never explicitly shown or stated what the Joker did to Griggs, given the Clown Prince of Crime’s reputation, one could certainly imagine a “wetting your pants” scenario. In any case, Griggs finally gave in to the Joker’s demands and handed a phone to Harley before the Task Force X mission began, to which she told him: “You’re so screwed.”

Although suicide squad It was the only time Barinholtz appeared in the DCEU, returning to the DC space by voicing Lex Luthor in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Partthen Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Batman: The Sound Adventures. Barinholtz, Leto and Robbie suicide squad Castmates included Will Smith as Deadshot, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag Sr., Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Karen Fukuhara as Katana. David Ayer directed the film and was credited as the sole writer, although Geoff Johns wrote the material filmed during the reshoots.

Following five months later Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, suicide squad was met with equally negative critical reception. ScreenRant‘s suicide squad review described the film as “dynamic,” but ultimately “Undermined by plot holes and uneven execution of action, character and comedy.” However, it was a commercial success, grossing over $749 million worldwide. suicide squad It also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Barinholtz will next be seen repeating Sal Saperstein in The study season 2, for which Apple TV has not yet set a release date. He also created the Netflix series. race pointwhich returns for season 3. Leto can currently be seen playing Skeletor. in Masters of the universe.