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Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji, who portrays ARGUS team leader Clemson Murn, says that the season finale of the HBO Max series will be a tearjerker.
Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji, who portrays ARGUS team leader Clemson Murn, said that fans can expect a tearjerker finale for the HBO Max original series.
While speaking to TV Line, Iwuji said that following Peacemaker‘s Season 1 finale, fans will have “itchy fingers, to get online and find out if it’s been renewed for a Season 2!” He continued, “Honestly, in these last episodes you get a sense of who these characters could be, given time; you get a sense of how they’ve grown, and surprisingly so since there’s been so much hilarity; there a lot of smiling; and I do genuinely think there will be the flutter of the old tear duct.”
Gunn spoke about the possibility of multiple seasons in 2021 before the show premiered. Now, with the season finale drawing closer, Gunn recently stated that “there’s a really good chance” of Peacemaker being renewed for a second season, though this has not been officially confirmed by HBO Max.
Two episodes remain in the first season of Peacemaker; Episode 7, “Stop Dragon My Heart Around,” and the season finale, Episode 8, “It’s Cow or Never.” The sixth episode, “Murn After Reading” saw Iwuji’s Clemson Murn disclose to his team that he has been a Butterfly the entire time they’ve been working together and likely earlier than that. According to Iwuji, his character’s secret identity “was a big selling point with [series creator James Gunn] and [executive producer] Peter [Safran],” but the actor chose not to let his character’s Butterfly status influence how he portrayed Murn. “It was really important that I played it as Clemson Murn, and that was it,” Iwuji said. “You know, with all his dark past — his taciturn and dry, drive — Amanda Waller qualities.”
The first three episodes of Peacemaker, starring John Cena in the titular role, premiered on HBO Max on Jan. 13. While there are eight episodes set to air overall for the show’s first season, only seven were shown to critics before the series premiere. According to Gunn, this was to avoid any potential spoilers. “I wouldn’t let them put out eight,” Gunn said in a previous interview. “They wanted to put out all eight. I said, ‘No way. No chance in hell are we putting out all eight.’ There’s just too many things [that] happen in episode eight that I just could not let it get out there. It would absolutely be spoiled. You know, I wouldn’t even let them give it to one place or anything like that because it just wasn’t… I didn’t want it to be out there.”
Gunn has previously stated that DC Films and HBO Max let him go “hog wild” for the series, giving him plenty of freedom in this addition to the DCEU. When Peacemaker was first announced, Gunn called the series “an opportunity to delve into current world issues through the lens of this superhero/supervillain/and world’s biggest douchebag.”
New episodes of Peacemaker drop every Thursday on HBO Max.
Source: TV Line
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