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Suicide Squad’: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on Bringing Killer Croc to Life

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When the cast and characters started to get announced for writer/director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, folks were certainly excited to see Will Smith bring Deadshot to life or Margot Robbie play Harley Quinn, but one of the most interesting additions to the ensemble was Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, Thor: The Dark World) as Killer Croc.

This Batman villain is one of the most cartoonish characters in the comics, and as opposed to someone like Joker or Captain Boomerang, has lacked human-like features in his various iterations—the Killer Croc in Batman: Arkham Asylum, for instance, is a massive beast of a creature. So how, exactly, would Killer Croc fit into the grounded, gritty, hyper-realistic world of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad?
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That was the question on everyone’s minds when I visited the Suicide Squad set in Toronto last summer, but it was clear upon our arrival that Akinnuoye-Agbaje was bringing Croc to fruition via some tremendous makeup work, not CG or motion-capture. We got the opportunity to speak with Akinnuoye-Agbaje about his experience on the film a few hours before he hit the makeup chair, and when he walked by in full makeup later on, I was genuinely terrified. The craftsmanship that brings Croc to life in the film is nothing short of magic, and it’s refreshing to see the character being done practically instead of adding a CG member of the Suicide Squad to the ensemble.
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During our conversation with Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the actor discussed how he and Ayer built out the backstory and motivations for Croc in order to give him a humanity. He also talked about the intense rehearsal process for the film where he sparred with his fellow cast members, why he secluded himself from the rest of the cast during filming, making the shift from Marvel to DC, the extensive process of putting on the Killer Croc makeup and prosthetics, why Croc has a Bronx accent, and much more. It’s a fascinating insight into how Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Ayer made a concerted effort to make this larger-than-life character as real as possible, and it has me even more excited for the film.

Check out the full interview below links to the rest of my set visit coverage. Suicide Squad opens in theaters on August 5th. Read more collider

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