After making his animated debut as Rick Flag Sr. in the HBO Max subscription-exclusive series Creature Commandos, Frank Grillo played his DC Universe character for the first time in live-action in Superman last month. However, there was one key difference between his big and small screen depictions: hair color. Flag was rocking Grillo’s normal black hair in Superman despite having white hair in Creature Commandos, and the actor has shared the reason why this color change, which evidently some didn’t handle well, happened.
Grillo explained to IGN that this stemmed from how his work on Superman overlapped with filming the Sylvester Stallone-led series Tulsa King. As such, playing Bill Bevilaqua on the Paramount+ subscription-exclusive show necessitated that his hair remain the same color, continuity issues in the DC Universe aside. As the actor recalled:
