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3. More Details On The Rick Flagg/Amanda Waller Friction

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If you didn't already know that Amanda Waller and Rick Flagg weren't exactly the best of friends - despite him being her "right-hand man", Viola Davis spoke to Entertainment Weekly to confirm how David Ayer had made her interact with her underling:

"He would make me call, [Davis starts laughing and can’t really stop] Joel Kinnaman a pussy at times. A bitch. [More laughs.] It’s completely politically incorrect but it caused a reaction in me. It made me feel like a straight up thug, and it made Rick Flagg want to kick my ass. So David got what he wanted."

And if the intent was to cause a divide, it absolutely worked, as Joel Kinnamon confirmed:

“Some of the stuff she said really pissed me off. And I felt really betrayed. And that’s exactly what David wanted me to feel… And now it’s in the movie. That’s some pretty high-level direction through manipulation.”
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