Amazon’s comic book adaptation Invinciblebit of controversy this week, though, as fans quickly noticed that one celebrity cameo from the show’s first season has now been quietly recast: Zombie-making mad scientist D.A. Sinclair, who was played in the show’s first outing by, uh, Ezra Miller.
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Not so much in the show’s ongoing second season, though where the character—recruited by the “good guys” to make zombie soldiers for them, instead of his own evil purposes—returns very briefly, now voiced by veteran voice actor Eric Bauza. (Currently audible in a few small roles in X-Men ’97, and not audible in his capacity as a regular Looney Tunes voice actor in Warner Bros.’ eternally shelved Coyote Vs. Acme.) Amazon hasn’t directly commented on the recasting, but it’s not hard, given the career/police blotter trajectory of the last few years of Miller’s public persona, to guess why the Seth Rogen-produced series may have opted for a change, just in case.
The realization of the re-casting also serves as an odd little reminder that we, as a society, appear to have completely lost track of Miller—a prospect that would have been legitimately alarming circa 2022, when he served as a sort of pop culture boogeyman, haunting the headlines of the news cycle on a near-daily basis. But, outside a few court appearances—and a single appearance at the premiere of his superhero movie The Flashissued a statement that he was undergoing treatment for “complex mental health issues.” He hasn’t worked since—no upcoming roles, no press events, and certainly no quick voice cameos in a fun, surprisingly brutal animated superhero show.