The Suicide Squad Cast Reveal - Predicting EVERY Character
17. Pete Davidson - Briscoe
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Of all of the confirmed cast members, Pete Davidson - who has earned some plaudits in the past couple of years as a regular on Saturday Night Live - is about the strangest. He's done SOME acting, like in The Dirt on Netflix earlier in 2019, but it's not really something he's well-known for and the idea of him playing a legitimate threat of a supervillain is a bit... strange.
This IS a James Gunn movie, so not expecting strange would be silly, but it would make a lot more sense if Davidson was playing a mostly comedic side character. The same went for Ike Barinholtz in the first Suicide Squad and it would be tempting to suggest Davidson might be playing a key guard role or something similar.
Far better, though, is the suggestion that he could be playing Suicide Squad pilot Briscoe. He's actually one of the weirdest associates of the Squad and the idea of Davidson playing a deranged chopper pilot who talks to his helicopter - which he called Sheba after his dead daughter - and insists on sleeping inside it is actually a great shout.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.
