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‘I’ll Do What I Have to Do to Survive’
David Ayer on the “dark night of the soul” he faced after the controversy of Suicide Squad, and how it changed his career.
His early films as a director — Harsh Times, End of Watch, Street Kings — were intense Los Angeles crime dramas very much in the vein of his best-known script, Training Day. The world was on the brink of war, horrific things were happening in Europe, and these guys in New York are like, “I want to write an empowering character that creates some sense of hope in this world.” I think that these cycles roll through time. I’ve heard so many times, “Hey, before our squad was deployed, we all sat down and watched Fury before we went downrange.” Maybe it’s that sense of masculinity, and life and responsibility and personality and all the masks we put on — now, here are these guys in this tank, and the war has stripped away all of that.
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