This is from denofgeek.com - Interview 3
Margot Robbie is not only a breakout star of the DC Extended Universe, but broader Hollywood. The Australian actress moves seamlessly between the blockbuster superhero franchise world and Academy
Award-nominated indies like I, Tonya, while also taking greater creative control behind the scenes through her film and TV production company LuckyChap Entertainment. As Robbie prepares for the August
release of DC's R-rated war movie epic The Suicide Squad, Den of Geek talks to the actress about working with director James Gunn, what it's like to film with pyrotechnics, and why she's still having fun
playing charismatically chaotic antihero Harley Quinn.
Q: You've said before in interviews that you have to like the character to be able to play them. What do you like about Harley Quinn?
Robbie: It's been so fun and so interesting to play her in three different iterations, under a different director each time, because I really find that people gravitate towards different characteristics
of her. And there is so much to her, and there's a lot of great fun qualities, and there's a lot of bad qualities that are also very
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fascinating to play with.
It's interesting, depending on who's writing her or who's directing her. People want to explore different aspects of the character, which is great for me because I want to explore every aspect of her. The
three different movies - Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, and now The Suicide Squad - have been their own adventures, kind of like when you pick up a comic book. Depending on who your author is, it's a
different adventure.
There has been an interesting progression from when she was in a relationship with Mr. J in the first film, to newly being broken up and trying to be OK on her own and finding herself in Birds of Prey and
now in The Suicide Squad. She's single and ready to mingle and exploring love in different places. That side was particularly fun in this movie.
I often think of Harley as being like a kid on a playground, where if she's the only kid on a playground, she's not going to have that much fun, but if you just throw in a ton of other kids, it's going to
be mayhem. And so she's always the most fun when surrounded by a whole new group of people. In this movie, there's a huge ensemble cast, and that just means so many different characters for her to
interact with, which was so, so fun for me.
I think the things I love about playing her is exactly that: that you see a very different side to her,
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