As if including Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. wasn’t enough of a way to tie Peacemaker Season 2 to Superman, “Ignorance is Chris” featured a surprise appearance from Lex Luthor when Flag visited him in prison. Although that was the only time Nicholas Hoult reprised his character on the HBO Max subscription-exclusive series, some of Luthor’s minions also returned in the season’s final two episodes, most notably Stephen Blackehart’s Sydney Happersen. While it was initially left unclear why Sydney specifically agreed to help Rick Flag Sr., Blackehart has cleared up the matter thanks to a recent interview.
The actor addressed this while he was talking with Phase Hero host Brandon Davis alongside Bonnie Discepolo, who also appeared on Peacemaker to reprise fellow LuthorCorp employee Ali Jessop. When Davis asked Blackehart if Happersen complied with tracking down dimensional rifts for Flag because he feared punishment or disappointment from Lex Luthor, Blackehart first mentioned that he learned about a Reddit thread where fans debated that very topic, then said:
