Suicide Squad: Margot Robbie explains why Harley Quinn is the most manipulative member of the team
She also spoke about Quinn's relationship with Jared Leto's Joker
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Your support makes all the difference.With Batman v Superman having pretty much wrapped up at the box office, DC fans’ attention has turned to the next comic book-based property, Suicide Squad.
Although there are numerous villains in the film - including Will Smith’s Deadshot and Jared Leto’s Joker - the most hotly anticipated is Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn.
Having wowed audiences in the trailers, many are wondering whether the character’s relationship with the Joker will be as dark and twisted as it was in the Batman animated show. It seems it will be.
Speaking to LA Times at Cinema Con, Robbie revealed that her adaptation of the character sticks closely to the original story, with Quinn using her psychiatric past to manipulate other members of the team.
"She's definitely one of the more unpredictable members of the squad," Robbie told the paper. "She also used to be a psychiatrist so she has an extensive knowledge of mental illnesses and how to manipulate people.
“I’m sorry, well, she has a lot of knowledge on how to profile people, pick their triggers, and as Harley Quinn she kind of utilises that to just manipulate people and mess with them. And she definitely does that with the squad. She's always picking someone to be dissecting and playing off and messing with.”
Speaking about the character’s relationship with the Joker, Robbie called it ‘dysfunctional’, adding: "She's mad about him. Like, literally, mad. She's crazy. But she loves him. And it's a really unhealthy, dysfunctional relationship. But an addictive one."
It was recently rumoured that reshoots were being done to “add humour” to the film, yet director David Ayer has rubbished them.
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