Re-igniting a hotheaded rivalry
IDRIS ELBA AND JOHN CENA ON REVIVING THEIR ONSCREEN FEUD VIA ACTION-COMEDY HEADS OF STATE
WORDS IANA MURRAY
US President Will Derringer (John Cena) and UK Prime Minister Sam Clarke (Idris Elba) are in for an explosive time
IDRIS ELBA AND John Cena had some unresolved business. On the final day of shooting 2021’s The Suicide Squad, Elba had a proposition for his co-star: “I said, ‘John, seriously, I want to work with you again,’” Elba recalls. Cena wholeheartedly agreed. As Bloodsport and Peacemaker respectively, their characters had a combative rivalry fuelled by petty upmanship — an infectiously fun dynamic they didn’t want to leave behind.