Squad goals! Joel Kinnaman revealed he stays in regular contact with his Suicide Squad costars, and can’t wait to be reunited with them for the sequel. However, the script has to be just right.
“We’re a little family,” the actor told FANDOM exclusively at the premiere of his new Netflix series Altered Carbon. “We’re all still friends. We hang out. We text each other almost every week. I can’t wait to see everyone again.”
Kinnaman, who plays Colonel Rick Flag, proceed to name drop Will Smith (Deadshot), Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang), Jay Hernandez (El Diablo), Margo Robbie (Harley Quinn) and Ike Barinholtz (Griggs).
Interestingly, Hernandez’s character, El Diablo, seemingly died in the first film, and the rest of the cast has only been rumored for the 2019 DC Comic flick.
“In the first film we might’ve gone to production a little bit too soon,” Kinnaman said on the Altered Carbon red carpet. “They could’ve used a little bit more work on the script.”
“Sometimes these big movies start with a release date and then they got to figure the script on the way. And I think Warner Bros. is dead set on not doing that this time,” he added.
Kinnaman, who appeared surprisingly slim in person, shouldn’t have any trouble getting back into superhero shape.
For Altered Carbon, the star took on an intense regimen for the action — and nude — scenes. Kinnaman plays Takeshi Kovacs, a Japanese-Slavic marine-turned-mercenary whose consciousness is transferred into a new body.
“Well I did a lot of training,” Kinnaman told FANDOM. “I trained about six months before we started filming. 3-5 hours a day. A lot of physical training, stunt training. But you also gotta eat right.”
Season 1 of Altered Carbon premieres Friday on Netflix, while Suicide Squad 2 will drop in 2019.
