Margot Robbie has delivered impeccable performances in the entertainment world. However, her portrayal as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (2016) remains one of her best performances, that captivated audiences’ attention. While she nailed the role at its best, one would be surprised to know that her DCEU journey was not an easy feat thanks to her co-star, Jared Leto.
It’s known to almost everyone that Leto decided to go with method acting for his portrayal of the Crown Prince of Crime. However, his conventional efforts for his role were not an easy ride for everyone. Even the actress had to tackle a lot more while filming the movie apart from her co-star’s weird antics.
Margot Robbie Talks About the Hardest Scene She Filmed for Suicide Squad
In an interview with The Washington Post in 2016, the Barbie actress reflected on her time while filming the DCEU’s Suicide Squad.
The 2016 movie revolves around a group of imprisoned supervillains who are recruited by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to carry out dangerous black-ops missions in exchange for reduced sentences. Focusing on the group overall, it also showcased each character’s backstory with Margot Robbie‘s Harley Quinn being one of them.
The movie unravels her transformation from Dr. Harleen Quinzel into her psychotic alter-ego, showcasing particularly the scene when Joker pushes her into a vat of chemicals. However, pulling off that sequence was never easy for the Bombshell actress, which she declared was her “least favourite.”
“That chemical [scene] was the most unpleasant thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. So that was definitely my least favourite.”
She continued,
“It was like this gluggy paint stuff that was so far in my ears and up my nose, and I was choking on it underwater, and I couldn’t breathe, and I tried to open my eyes, and it would glaze over my eyeballs, and I could only see white. It was horrible.”
While she did go to great lengths for the DCEU movie, it was quite the disappointment as the movie was critically panned. It received negative criticism aimed at its plot, direction, and action sequences among other elements. As for Robbie, her character portrayal garnered immense praise, but she also had praise for her co-star, who left her petrified.
Margot Robbie Described Working With Jared Leto in Suicide Squad
Speaking with NY Daily News in 2015, the actress praised her co-star for pulling off an impressive performance as Joker. She further revealed that she was petrified when she first saw him in the Joker makeup.
She stated,
“At first it was kind of confronting (to be up close) but now I’m so used to it, I think if I ever saw him out of makeup now I would be really confused.”
She continued,
“Actually, I saw him out of makeup once and I was actually petrified of him. I was too scared to go up and didn’t know who that person was, and when he got back into his makeup I was far more comfortable.”
With how he was into method acting at the time, it would have surely left her surprised. As for his on-screen partner in crime, he gifted a live rat that Robbie found “disgusting at first.”
She told Jimmy Fallon, via MTV,
“At first I thought this was disgusting. But then after that… I was like, I’m not going to kill him. So I ended up keeping him as a pet. I ended up getting him like a sweet little playpen, a slide, a hammock, and a leash because I wanted to take him to set and walk him around… But then our landlord at the place I was staying found out.”
However, Robbie was not the only one who received a weird gift from the Joker actor as he surprised several of his co-stars with the same. The movie grossed over $745 million worldwide as per The Numbers.
Suicide Squad is available on Max.
