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NERD UP! STEVE AGEE DANCES BACK AS JOHN ECONOMOS IN PEACEMAKER SEASON TWO

- WORDS: NICK SETCHFIELD • PORTRAIT: STORM SANTOS

JUST WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER chainsawing a gorilla? “That’s a hard one to top,” reflects Steve Agee, tackling a question perhaps no other actor in history has had to confront. “That's a high point, I think, for Economos!”

Tech geek, tactician and owner of suspiciously dark facial shrubbery, John Economos had his memorably bloody skirmish with a primate in season one of Peacemaker, James Gunn’s salty but emotionally loaded spin-off from 2021’s The Suicide Squad. Now this agent of ARGUS is back for season two, once again caught up in the life of John Cena’s chrome-helmeted “d-bag” of a superhero.

“I think it’s pretty clear at the end of season one that the gang has kind of disbanded, with the outing of [ARGUS boss] Amanda Waller and everything,” Agee tells SFX. “When we come back in this season, everyone’s pretty spread out in different corners of the show’s world, and I’m really the only guy who's doing the same thing. I’m the least down-on-my-luck of anyone in the gang at this point. There’s a whole bunch of new characters. I have a new boss and new coworkers. It’s really exciting. It’s a much more epic world this season.”