Birds of Prey
TheBirds of Preymovie is giving its mavin Harley Quinn a new story in the DC movie existence , with the filmmakers making it clear thatthis Harley is n’t tied toSuicide Squador the Joker . It ’s time for Harley to do things on her own , and that sense of female empowerment goes beyond the film ’s casting of characters . With star Margot Robbie producing this escapade intended to give Harley some friends to playact with , there ’s nobody unspoiled to speak to the decisions made behind the scenes , as well as the approach being taken by director Cathy Yan . First thing first : don’t call Birds of Prey a squad - up .
speak with Robbie during our visit to theBirds of Preyset , we learned about the film ’s creation asa story being told through Harley ’s mind , her separation from the Joker , and where her and the Birds shine on the shell of Cuban sandwich and scoundrel . check up on out our full interview with Margot Robbie below .
You executive director produced this moving picture , and you also recommend for a female director , and diversity with the cast . So it expect like this movie is going to take exception and reframe ‘ sisterhood ’ beyond the lines of colour . Is there one takeaway you want women to have from this ?
When I first pitch the idea it was really because in unremarkable life sentence I am always hem in by a radical of women . Whether it ’s in friendship groups , or people I strive to process with . It was brainsick to me that I had n’t really gotten to be part of a distaff ensemble on - projection screen . I felt that you would get to see the best sides of Harley ’s personality in a group of missy , as well . Then we kind of pieced together a radical that does feel like a very eclectic mix of age and backgrounds . Even down to the fact that you ’ve got a cop in the radical , but then you ’ve got someone like Harley who is a complete anarchist . Everyone can offer something dissimilar to the shot . I think that would be a fun thing to dramatize on - screen , but also an opportunity for people who – I guess all us audience member who are like , ‘ I have a female child pack in real life , I kind of require to see one represent on - filmdom . ’
When did you know you desire to take this case and make it your own ? Was it during Suicide Squad , during the hand , or reading the comics ? When was that moment that you say ‘ this is me , I want to do this , and I want this character ’ ?
I was so delirious to play her from the very beginning . And the more I read the comics , and the more I got to dally her in existent life during Suicide Squad , the more I just fell in love with her . And there were such obviously limited segments on - screen to really showcase dissimilar ingredient of Harley ’s personality in the first Suicide Squad . So it ’s been really amazing in this movie because I have more cover time . And what ’s different about this picture is that you see Harley in her element , you get to see Harley ’s apartment . What does her sign calculate like ? What does she put on when she gets to pick her outfit ? In Suicide Squad there was a box there to pick out from and she wore her military mission outfit , but what is she wearing when she goes to get inebriated at night ? How does she handle with a hangover ? You got to kind of see these other sides of Harley , a more personal side .
We talked with the producers and they mentioned how in Suicide Squad Harley is a hero and not a villain . Do you see Harley as an anti - poor boy in this film , or a hero , or a villain ?
I mean anti - hero is an well-fixed way to classify her . I do n’t think she ’s evil , but I do n’t think she ’s good either . She ’s a baddie with her own set of rules that she follows . So her moral range points a very different manner to someone else ’s , but she does have a moral compass , she does have a feeling of what is right and wrong . She just commit her precedency in a very dissimilar society to some other mass .
So Harley is going to be dissimilar , now that she ’s not with the Joker . How much ego - analysis has Harley done specially consider her preceding profession ?
Yes . I imagine it ’s funny , it ’s like one of those thing where it ’s easygoing to give people advice than to work it through for yourself ? I think it ’s a interchangeable thing , where she truly is a mess . She ’s a total mess after the break - up . And despite her backdrop and knowledge of the human condition , I feel like she ’s just really struggle to figure it out for herself . You definitely see the different stages post break - up . And it ’s pretty messy .
What surprised you most about Harley when you first scan this playscript , and what is your favorite snack out of all the ace we saw in her flat ?
The second one is the well-fixed to respond because my headland just conk to food forthwith . Fruit Loops are like one of my favorite – when I was first move out of home and I was n’t allowed Fruit Loops … are they cry Fruit Loops in America ? I was n’t allow for them grow up . And then I move out of house when I was like 17 and I lived on nothing but Fruit Loops for probably the first three month . Breakfast lunch and dinner party was just Fruit Loops , because I was so excited to be capable to corrode them . I ’m still not macabre of them . Also there ’s an ikon in a mirthful I register where she is sitting … I think she ’s actually with Poison Ivy , but there ’s an image of her watching toon and eating cereal . There are a couple of images from the comics that have always really stuck with me , and I spoke to Christina , ' Can we put in this moment ? ' There ’s a couple key minute I ’ve seen in images , and that was one of them . Her eating grain determine cartoons . So we have a picture like that with Cass . So that ’s definitely my favorite .
And not specifically take the playscript , because I was on the project before the script was written , so that form of total together . I guess what ’s always surprised me , or the thing … and I say this when publicizing Suicide Squad , the first film , is that her relationship with Joker always did confuse me the most . That was the thing that took me the longest to get my caput around . In this film though , we ’re explore her not being with Joker . And I really interpret the break - up . That ’s something I feel like everyone can kind of understand and relate to in some ways . Though she deals with – like she blows thing up , I do n’t do that . I understand the need that spurred on that train of thought .
What do you expect from the hearing reaction to this film ?
I do n’t know , to be honest . It ’s always so unlike . When you make a film – Bryan and I made I , Tonya , and I just did not know how people were going to respond to it . And all you could do is really retrieve the truth in the level that you ’re distinguish , and tell it to the best of your ability , I suppose . Then explore it and attempt to research it in an unbiased manner . I feel like if you endeavor to keep catering to the interview too much you ultimately disappoint them . So it ’s tricky with something like this where you know there is already a fanbase , there are already people you want to please so badly . It ’s hard to not render to play for the laugh , or meet for the spectacle , but really find the truth in the place . So I guess you just have to see to it yourself every so often and ensure that we ’re order an honest write up . Even though it is spectacular , and amusing , and this and that , I feel like that ca n’t be the base of your aim .
Can you talk about the moral force of the squad ? We know that Harley is one extreme point , but where do the other fibre fall in the midriff ?
Like I mentioned before , I finger like everyone has their own set of ethics , and everyone ’s moral compass does unquestionably veer in different way . Which make it interesting . It is n’t until later in the photographic film where we all kind of coalesce . But you ’ve got Renee Montoya who is a cop plainly , and does truly want to … you know what everyone has in common ? They ’re all from Gotham . This part of Gotham , we ’re exploring the fringe of Gotham , as controvert to … if Gotham is New York we ’re not in Manhattan , we ’re in Queens or Brooklyn . But they ’re all from here , it ’s that feeling . It is contained in a way that there is a smaller community and everyone is in it , and everyone has their root in this part of town , and therefore want to struggle for it . So I think that ’s what they have in coarse . Whether they come out priority on upholding the law like Renee Montoya might . Or Canary again is unlike . Huntress is more of an foreigner coming back in . It ’s home for them , and they ’re fight for their community in some style , I suppose . In a very weird way .
The existent life cast , part of the fun of Suicide Squad coming out was the camaraderie of the Squad . How is it different ? Is it the same ? More intense , less intense ? Are you tattooing people on the set ?
No , I put the tattoo gun away . That ’s led to some interesting discussions . I guess it ’s different in the that that in Suicide Squad we got fuddle together right at the showtime of the cinema . In this the group finds each other . So we ’ve had less physical fourth dimension as a group . The scenes we ’re doing today is really quite late in the film , and that ’s when we first all kind of [ assemble ] . So we ’ve all had these moment to expend time together severally , as our role consort into each other , but this is the first meter that we ’re being thrown together . There always is though , on a pic set , that smell of comradeship . You find that quite promptly . You gravitate towards the grouping , the gang , quite quickly . I ’m sure by the time we ’ve done fifty million pleasure trip days we ’ll be lifelong friends . But the group straightaway got along , and it ’s great .
Yeah . I suppose there are so many films coming out now that the stripe has been lifted . There ’s just too much competition . You ca n’t really get by with just a bountiful blowup , that ’s not going to satisfy hoi polloi . Audiences are very smart , and audiences do have gamy expectations . It ’s not enough just to say , ' Here ’s a really coolheaded CG effect . ' Plus I do n’t need to spend years of my life work on something if that ’s all we ’re aiming to do , you make out ? I also want to deliver something that has an incredible plot , and eccentric work . And the spectacle as well , but the design in all aspects … I strive to have that all puzzle out at the high potential level . In this photographic film in particular , it is very plot - drive in some ways . Because we have a non - one-dimensional storytelling structure and we jump off around in meter , and therefore the plot really is quite of import . The character motivations are all quite simple and straight : we ’re all oppose for something reasonably straightforward . But I think the DC world does offer quite an opportunity for character study anyway , because the reference are quite colored , and often have quite a dark past . So we do explore that in bit and bit in this , and help find out character motivation through their back stories I suppose . But it is game driven for sure . There ’s a lot of rattling type mo . The design is beautiful . It does hopefully incorporate all those things interview are bet for .
In a hatful of these comic book movies and superhero movies in world-wide , the stakes can often be so eminent – the end of the cosmos , that variety of thing – this seems like it will have more personal stake .
It ’s more contain , for sure . Yeah . That was one of the few criterias that I started off with . When I first pitched it I was like , ' I am just so desensitized to seeing a city being flatten , it does n’t register . I ’ve construe it so many times on screen by this point , and VFX is so advanced at this spot , it ca n’t even offend me with the realness of it any longer . I just do n’t want to see stakes that big because I ’m dead to it . I feel like if we had it a little more contained … ' My initial sales talk was it should be no grownup than Mafia level , or gang stratum . It should all exist in a very minor geographic vicinity . And the stakes should palpate very personal , and palpate lifetime or demise , but not the life or expiry of thousands of the great unwashed . Just the citizenry that we ’ve pass meter with on - screen . So it ’s a far more contained adaptation , but it does n’t really take away from the stake , it still feels really , really significant . That was a huge part of it . I was just tired of seeing 1000000000000 of buildings falling down and overgorge like that .
You ’ll hear from [ Cathy Yan ] and see how amazing and smart she is . Truthfully she just add up in and blew our minds with her pitch for the cinema , and her discernment of what she was go away to bring to it . Automatically built off all the idea that we were excited about , she came in and speak about them in a elbow room that was going to bring up them to a whole new horizontal surface . That ’s kind of your dream scenario . You care about a project so much , you need someone to come in and understand it , and also feel as passionate about it as you do . And she did , she come in and we were all like , ' Oh my God , we found the person for this film , thank God . '
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