An unlikely DCU actor says he "worked more days than anybody else" on The Suicide Squad, "including" Margot Robbie
Nov. 26, 2024Exclusive: Steve Agee talks taking on a bigger role as John Economos and spending way too much time as a CGI shark
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Creature Commandos star Steve Agee says he didn’t expect John Economos to carry over into the DCU - especially given the fact that he spent more time on the Suicide Squad set as a CGI shark than Margot Robbie did as Harley Quinn.
“John Economos' role in Suicide Squad was a guy in the computer room, and he had some funny stuff, some comic relief stuff. And my role of King Shark - the motion capture for King Shark was way bigger. I think I worked more days than anybody else on the movie, including Margot, and that was mostly King Shark,” Agee tells GamesRadar+.
John Economos is a founding member of ARGUS, the Amanda Waller-led organization responsible for assembling the Suicide Squad and the Creature Commandos, and is mostly a lovable nerd who sits behind a computer. After a small role in The Suicide Squad, Agee would play the character on a much bigger scale in Peacemaker - and now in Creature Commandos, making Economos officially canon to the brand new DCU.
King Shark, however, doesn’t look like he’s making the crossover, though the addition of an anthropomorphic shark with superhuman strength does make sense given that the first crop of characters in the new DCU include a robot, a radioactive skeleton in a lab coat, a Tasmanian devil-like weasel, and the Bride of Frankenstein.
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news 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.
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