David Ayer Made The Cast Of SUICIDE SQUAD Fight Each Other In Rehearsals

Suicide Squad has had its fair share of unconventional circumstances during the production of the film. From the cast getting matching tattoos to Jared Leto's unsettling method performance, there's certainly a uniqueness to the making of the next installment in the DCEU. In a new interview with Yahoo, director David Ayer has discussed another peculiar tactic he used during rehearsals; apparently he got his cast to fight each other as a bonding exercise. “The rehearsal was very intense. It wasn’t a normal rehearsal, we’d talk about their lives, their history, and really got them to open up as people to each other. I also had them fight. I had them fight each other. You learn a lot about who a person really is when you punch them in the face. It gets rid of a lot of the actor stuff.” 

To be clear, these were not fight scenes, but general rehearsals. Joel Kinnaman, who plays Rick Flag, said “We were all in one
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