After months of hype, “Suicide Squad” fans were disappointed to see how few scenes Jared Leto’s The Joker featured in over the course of the movie. Now, co-star Margot Robbie is offering up an explanation.
Robbie, who plays The Joker’s lover Harley Quinn, insists that filmmakers shot so much backstory for her character and The Joker, it was inevitable that it all wouldn’t make it to the final cut.
“They probably realized that the emotional through-line of the story had to be the mission that we were on, and explaining the Enchantress’s position and all that kind of stuff,” she explains in an interview with Tipsy Talk. “And the [Harley and Joker] backstory stuff, though it’s magic and some of the stuff we shot was insane, they are flashbacks … so there’s a lot, but it just didn’t make sense to confuse the present storyline to incorporate all that.”
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When asked if there was enough for a potential spin-off for a story focused on The Joker and Harley Quinn, Robbie didn’t rule it out.
“I’m trying to make that happen,” she says. “There’s just so much more to do.”
Earlier this year, it was confirmed that DC and WB were entertaining the possibility of a spin-off featuring DC’s female heroes and villains, of which Robbie’s Harley Quinn would be a major part.
