What first excited you about playing Hawkman? ALDIS HODGE: It was his affiliations, his history, who he was to DC. He’s been all over, he’s been through so many different things. He’s touched so many different stories. When we first started, I didn’t know what journey they were taking him on. So I was getting excited thinking about what the next journey is for him. And I couldn’t wait to see what the costume looked like. What does Hawkman bring to the JSA? How was it getting to have Pierce as your BFF in the movie? I don’t know if you know, but 007 is my bestie? Pierce is cool. That is the coolest brother. And they brought that to all the casting. Noah is one of the sweetest guys ever. Quintessa is amazing, really artsy, we still share art and fashion stuff together. What’s it like to be part of a new superhero universe? We are part of the inception, we get to establish what some of those marquee rules are. We get to have fun with building out more, we get to be architects, and that’s what I love the most about this experience. Talking to Jaume [Collet-Serra], he was like, “So what do you want to do?” I asked, “What about the hair?” So when they told me, “Do what you want with the hair,” my boy, Art Williams—who has been a brother to me and my barber for 13 years now—we got together to design and create the hair for Hawkman. Read much more about Black Adam in our exclusive cover story here.
