Scott Eastwood turned down the ‘Suicide Squad’ sequel after getting advice from his father, Clint Eastwood
- Eastwood explained why he turned down more “Suicide Squad” movies after being in the 2016 movie.
- He told Insider he was offered a three-picture deal, but little money.
- Eastwood said he turned to his dad, Clint Eastwood, for advice and ultimately passed.
Scott Eastwood starred in 2016’s “Suicide Squad” as “GQ” Edwards, one of the bad-ass military members who fights alongside Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) and a collection of DC Comic villains to save the day.
Eastwood said he was almost in the sequel, but after a chat with his legendary father, Clint Eastwood, he ended up passing on a three-picture deal Warner Bros. offered him.
“They didn’t want to pay me any money for those next movies and … they didn’t have another script for the other movie, so I didn’t know what I was going to be signing myself up for,” Eastwood told Insider.
So, in need of some advice, Eastwood said he called his dad.
“I said, ‘They don’t want to pay me,'” Eastwood said, recalling the conversation he had with the four-time Oscar winner. “He said, ‘If it feels like they really need you and if it’s a good part, then do it. If not, then don’t.’
“I didn’t have the answer to those questions at that time. I wasn’t going to have the answers, and they were pressuring me. So ultimately it didn’t happen,” he added.
Warner Bros. did not respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Eastwood also said he was not happy that a lot of his scenes in the movie were left on the cutting room floor.
