Vogue isn’t necessarily a publication you will see cited on our website often, but when they spend a day with our new crush, Margot Robbie – who will be playing Harley Quinn in this summer’s Suicide Squad, we’re likely going to send some folks their way.
Unfortunately, the piece is more so a candid, day-in-a-life of the beautiful Margot Robbie than any interview promoting Suicide Squad. Actually, the piece is meant to promote her turn as Jane in the upcoming Legend of Tarzan, but they’d be remiss if they didn’t at least talk a little bit about Suicide Squad.
If you’re not interested in her life, then leave now, but otherwise, it’s a very interesting read. What the writer seems to want to emphasize is that Robbie isn’t anything like the characters she’s played thus far (I kind of hope and don’t hope that she’s like Harley Quinn), more specifically focusing on her turn as Naomi Lapaglia in The Wolf of Wall Street. Instead, she seems like a person who’s impulsive, fun, and very down-to-earth. I mean, upon walking by a pool, she felt the need to take a dip… therefore, she changed into a bathing suit and jumped in.
However, there are a few tidbits in the article that are worth mentioning.
The writer also emphasizes that this girl is incredibly graceful as someone who likely has both danced and played sports at some point in her lifetime. The article quotes David Ayer, writer and director of Suicide Squad.
“[The role of Harley] a lot of heavy lifting for an actor. But she’s a tough girl, and she’s incredibly smart and mature beyond her years. She has ridiculous depth, and she’s never been coddled, so she’s very physically courageous. The things she was doing herself as far as stunts, you wouldn’t believe. There’s only a handful of actors who do that sort of work themselves.”
Tina Fey also managed to weigh-in on Robbie. They shared the screen in Whisky Tango Foxtrot, which opened last month. Fey explained that Robbie was scheduled to fly to Toronto for Suicide Squad after completion and how a personal trainer was “literally following her around the set so she could be ready for Suicide Squad.”
And of course, they touch upon the ever-popular story of Robbie giving the cast and crew of Suicide Squad tattoos on the set.
Apparently, it wasn’t something new to the young actress. In her home in London, there was, at one point, 8 people living there and she decided to make it a rule that whomever was to move it would have to get a tattoo. There was one specific tattoo artist that they’d frequent for this contractually obligatory roommate tattoo and she’d been begging to give it a try, which the artist eventually gave in. Her best friend purchased her a tattoo gun as a gift after wrapping production on Tarzan. Since then, she travels around with it and has given impromptu tattoos.
What seems to be the take-away from all of this is that “her willingness to try anything and her uncanny ability to be good at everything.” That seems to be an attitude at least worth trying, no?
She seems like a very free-spirited girl who’s just enjoying her time on Earth. Read the rest of the piece here.
Catch a more psychopathic version of her this summer. Suicide Squad opens August 5th.