STACK #187 May 2020

FILM FEATURE

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GIRL POWER

Although winning AACTA awards for her roles in I,Tonya and Bombshell as well as Oscar nods for both films, Harley Quinn remains the role closest to Margot Robbie’s heart.The star and director CathyYan talk about Harley’s return – and ‘Fantabulous Emancipation’ – in Birds of Prey . Words Gill Pringle

“S he really is very special to me. I feel very protective of her but also very liberated when I play her because, as an actor, your options are endless. With certain characters, they would only react in a certain way, but with Harley, she can do anything because she is a very unpredictable and erratic person,” laughs Margot Robbie when STACK catches up with her. As the naughtiest girl in the DC Universe, audiences can catch up on Robbie’s second Harley outing with the home entertainment release of Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn , in readiness for her third outing which sees her reunite with the Suicide Squad in James Gunn’s highly anticipated film of the same name (due in 2021). Having completed filming The Suicide Squad last year – co-starring Idris Elba, Taika Waititi, Joel Kinnaman and Jai Courtney – Robbie has kept busy while all of Hollywood is temporarily halted during Coronavirus lockdown.

Harley on roller-skates is just so cool’,” says Robbie, who also serves as a producer on Birds of Prey . Training on a trampoline between scenes, she says, “We also wanted to incorporate more acrobatics because when she was Harleen Quinzel she was a gymnast as well as being a psychologist,

Taking to Instagram to

ask her followers to donate food to the US school system, she can even be seen reading a story to help out all those parents who are sheltering in place with young families. Filming Birds of Prey post I, Tonya , she

[Harley Quinn] is very special to me. I feel very protective of her but also very liberated when I play her...

was delighted to see all her training on the ice-rink pay off. “Thank God I, Tonya happened before this because I always wanted the roller-skating element in here just because, in one of the comics, they have this roller derby and it’s just so fun and I was like, ‘Ahh, the image of

L-R Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn Chris Messina asVictor Zsasz and Ewan McGregor as Roman Sionis

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