Peacemaker's Chukwudi Iwuji Created a Backstory for Original Character Clemson Murn

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Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji imagined a backstory for mercenary Clemson Murn, an original character not from the DC comics:

✖ Warning: this story contains spoilers for Peacemaker Episodes 1-3. Christopher Smith's fight for peace continues with a new squad in Peacemaker, the HBO Max Original series teaming the ex-Task Force X member with mercenary Clemson Murn . Five months after The Suicide Squad, ARGUS Director Amanda Waller recruits Murn to lead Project Butterfly: a black-ops assignment to locate and assassinate suspected Butterflies, metahumans under the control of butterfly-like alien parasites.

"It's always cool to play someone with a dark past, sort of working on redemption. That's always such a great arc for an actor because you like to sort of live in the darkness, but redemption is something you look for," Iwuji said on HBO Max's Podly: The Peacemaker Podcast."I love that. I love the acting challenge of being British-Nigerian and playing American parts...

— Peacemaker on HBO Max January 5, 2022 Iwuji worked with dialect coach Kohli Calhoun to"become someone else" and"find his voice placement, everything," approaching the shadowy character with"forensic detail in preparation for him."

 

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