'Suicide Squad': Will Smith Found It 'Very Freeing' to Not Be the Good Guy for Once
Will Smith shaped his acting career by playing the relatable "good guy" roles in blockbusters like Men In Black, Independence Day and I Am Legend. So when he hopped on for Suicide Squad, a film filled with DC Comics antiheroes, the move was unexpected. The actor explains his decision to play Deadshot to Entertainment Weekly:
“I had never played a character that legitimately didn’t give a fuck. It’s very freeing not having to carry the moral spine of the movie. I couldn’t find a model to understand what would make someone comfortable killing another person for money. David [Ayer] walked me through that. He found a book for me [The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas], and I worked through getting into the mind of serial killers. Once I accepted the [notion the author puts forth] that it feels good, that really exploded the idea in my mind of Deadshot.”
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