Interview with Ike Barinholtz about his Suicide Squad experience.

“Going to Suicide Squad was a very different experience,” Ike Barinholtz told BuzzFeed a couple weeks ago. “I don’t want to say it was agro-male because Margot Robbie is tougher than any of the guys, but it was just a very raucous set. David Ayer is very dark. He chases that real darkness and says crazy things to you before a take to get your head spinning. He likes to psychologically get in there. He would tell us, ‘You know on Fury, right before a scene, I almost got Shia [LaBeouf] and [Jon] Bernthal into a fistfight.’ And [I’m] like, ‘I don’t want to do that!!’ But he gets great performances out of actors and [Suicide Squad] is so big in scope. When I think of some of those sets, it’s like, This is the size of Universal Studios. It was very, very, very different.”
Regarding his mystery Suicide Squad character, who appeared to be a guard in the very prison that’s holding Task Force X from the San Diego Comic-Con sizzle reel, Barinholtz has to keep mum. “I have David Ayer in my head being like, ‘I’m going to kill you if you say anything,’” said the actor before he paused and offered some hints about the supporting role. “I can say it’s probably not who you think it is. I can say that he’s definitely someone that people will not like, and he is someone who likes to really mess with people — likes to really hurt people and [frick] them up.”