Margot Robbie Reveals What She Liked About Being in an Ensemble Cast in Suicide Squad

Margot Robbie clearly loves the “insane, completely nuts” Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. The actress came out to the world premiere of the film in New York dressed in a shimmering sequined Unicorn dress, and had nothing but smiles and excitement while talking about her much anticipated character. Harley is unique, too, in that she interacts directly with basically every character in the film, while most of the others tend to get paired up with one or two others to build their characters off of.

“It was really nice to kind of pick which members of the Squad Harley liked, why she liked them, and which ones she hated and why,” Robbie told Comicbook.com on the red carpet. “I mean, they all become like this weird, dysfunctional family by the end of it, but for the most part of the movie she’s just trying to mess with their heads.”

That dysfunctional family on screen actually mimicked the one between the castmates, not the other way around.

“Not even by the end of it,” she said when asked about the cast’s family attitude, “by very close to the beginning of it. We still are. We’re a weird bunch of brothers and sisters.”

The actress echoed earlier comments by Will Smith and Jai Courtney that she signed onto the film with no script and very little knowledge about the character, simply because David Ayer was set to write and direct.

“David is incredible. I watched End of Watch at the Cinema about four times, I was obsessed with it. I loved Fury, I loved Training Day, things he’s written and not just directed. I’ve always wanted to work with him,” the actress divulged. “When I signed on for this, there was no script, no other castmember attached, I didn’t know the comics; all I had was David Ayer writing and directing, that’s all I had to go on, and I said, ‘sign me up.’”

She did say that she’s now “obsessed with the comics,” even though she hadn’t read them before. As she’s noted before, she plans to play Harley Quinn “until they won’t let me anymore,” she said. “I’ll play Harley as long as they want me.” As for what that might look like, now that she is a comic book fan she says the possibilities are endless.

“If you look to the comicbooks, there’s a whole range of relationships she’s yet to explore, and missions, and there’s just so much to her. There’s a million different directions this could go.”

Margot Robbie stars in Suicide Squad opening August 5, 2016, and a Harley Quinn spinoff solo movie is already in the early stages.