depending on who she's with at the time and who she's interacting with. And she's just psychotic and fun and cheeky and morally ambiguous, and I get to do and say all of the things that I would never get
to do and say in real life.
Q: For the first Suicide Squad film, you drew character inspiration from Harley in Batman: The Animated Series, and Karen Hill from Goodfellas. Did you use those as well? Or were there different
touchstones for this film?
Robbie: Because James is such a comic book lover, this iteration of Harley was the closest to the Suicide Squad comics. I've actually been craving some of those iterations of Harley I'd read and loved so
much, so I was keen for someone to explore that.
I feel like I've known her for so long now that she's gone a bit beyond touchstones and she's pretty fully formed in my mind. And now it's just about exploring, like I said, different iterations of the
comics and their storylines a little closer.
Q: What is Harley's aesthetic in The Suicide Squad?
Robbie: For her, she's going into work. This is mission mode, so she puts on her mission outfit. Then the movie takes an unexpected turn, and she gets put into another outfit [the red dress seen in the
trailer], not of her choosing. But happily for us and audience
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members, it's very much in the Harley color palette, being such a vibrant red color and the black boots. Everything was kind of crafted within her traditional color palette from the comics.
But yeah, very different aesthetic to Birds of Prey, because she's in a very different mindset. She's in mission mode here. Whereas in Birds of Prey, she was an absolute mess. She didn't know what she was
doing with her life and I think trying to overcompensate that she's feeling OK with what she wore, which meant she was wearing a ton of different things all at once in Birds of Prey, which I loved.
Q: Were the costumes comfortable?
Robbie: They were pretty comfy. To be honest, being in flat shoes for a lot of this film was... that was a new thing. To do Harley fight scenes in boots, like combat boots, was a dream. It's really hard to
do months and months of stunts in high heels. So yeah, that definitely contributes to the comfort factor.
Q: You've learned some very impressive skills, not only in this franchise, but in other roles you've had. Was there anything new you learned for this movie?
Robbie: We had a lot of pretty intense fights. We shot one big, long Harley fight sequence. We shot it in a couple of days, which was kind of insane and really, really fun. I'm trying to think if there's
anything
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