How Wild Is 'Suicide Squad?' There's an On-Set Therapist

The first ‘Suicide Squad’ team photo (David Ayers/Twitter)

On a production filled with actors playing twisted comic-book villains, the real superhero might just be the on-set therapist.

Director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad features famous D.C. Comics baddies such as the Joker (Jared Leto), Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), and Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) who team up for a Dirty Dozen style mission. They’re all pretty unhinged, so it made some kind of sense when costar Adam Beach (who plays Slipknot) told E! Online last week that Ayer has arranged for a “life coach” of sorts to help keep fiction from becoming reality.

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“We kind of have, like, a therapist on board if you fall off the wagon and really are villainous,” the actor said. “Us actors explore very fine thin lines going to the dark side, and he wants to make sure we finish a movie and don’t disappear somewhere and then don’t show up for work.” Perhaps this is only fair considering the level of realism Ayers demands. (“If your character is tormented, he wants you to torment yourself,” Beach said.)

Jared Leto as the Joker (David Ayer/Twitter)

Either way, the therapist certainly has his work cut out for him, given just how crazy the film looks and sounds. Last week, Beach also revealed to E! that Leto sent bizarre, Joker-esque gifts like a live rat and a dead hog to his cast mates.

On the bright side, the life coach probably won’t have much of a problem with Cara Delevingne, who seems totally at ease with her onscreen villain. “There are only three girls in [Suicide Squad], but in my opinion they have the best roles,” she told Empire Magazine. “Generally though, superhero movies are totally sexist. Female superheroes are normally naked or in bikinis. No one would be able to fight like that. Wonder Woman: How the hell does she fight? She would be dead in a minute.”