00:00 ♪ You fall in love ♪
00:02 ♪ Same old sky above ♪
00:03 - He's after all of us.
00:04 The kid just robbed him.
00:06 ♪ Same old pain ♪
00:07 - You betrayed him.
00:08 You killed his BFF.
00:09 - You're dumb enough to be building a case against him.
00:12 So, unless we all wanna die very unpleasant deaths,
00:16 we're gonna have to work together.
00:17 (upbeat music)
00:18 - You have a unique opportunity to play the same character
00:22 in three different films that are not connected
00:24 with three different directors.
00:25 - It's weird.
00:26 - It's strange to see that.
00:27 It's not traditional sequels in any way.
00:29 Are you able to approach her in different ways
00:31 depending on which director you're collaborating with?
00:34 - Exactly, no, I totally do.
00:36 And it's actually amazing.
00:37 And it really is a similar format to the comic books
00:41 whereby with each author,
00:42 you are getting a different looking aesthetic
00:45 and a slightly different feel,
00:46 but really the spirit and essence of the character
00:49 is always the same.
00:50 And I'd say that's the case for the films.
00:52 And it is fascinating to see
00:54 how each director approaches her
00:55 because I feel like they gravitate to a certain aspect
00:58 or aspects of her personality
01:00 and wanna explore that and inject it into their version
01:03 of the film that they're working on.
01:06 And to me, there are so many aspects of her personality
01:09 and now I just get to explore all of them.
01:11 - You know, it was actually pretty much a blank slate
01:13 because of course she's bringing her own experiences
01:17 and how she interpreted the character in Suicide Squad.
01:21 And we were before The Suicide Squad,
01:24 so we didn't have that as reference.
01:26 - Right.
01:28 - And I think it was really just like to each their own
01:30 in terms of the movie.
01:31 And of course the essence of who Harley is,
01:33 she just knew so well.
01:35 And this movie was really much more about Harley herself
01:39 and her overcoming something and her trying to find herself
01:42 and her relationship with this young kid
01:44 and her relationship with other women.
01:46 So I think it was actually quite specific in that way.
01:49 - Now in any essence, are you like,
01:51 "But no, don't do that because she wouldn't do that
01:53 'cause you have ownership?"
01:54 - Sometimes, yeah.
01:54 Sometimes I'm like, "I'd shoot,
01:56 "that's not what she would do."
01:57 - Right.
01:58 - I think there's the temptation to,
02:00 at least in this version,
02:01 'cause Cathy definitely was interested
02:02 in seeing this more vulnerable version of Harley.
02:05 And we all wanted to see like,
02:06 "What does Harley order for breakfast
02:08 "when she's hungover?
02:08 "What does Harley's apartment look like?"
02:10 We did wanna see that real life side of her,
02:14 but I think there was a temptation.
02:17 I think Cathy was loving the vulnerable,
02:19 fun and sweet version of Harley.
02:21 And I had to keep being like,
02:23 "She's a bad person still though.
02:25 (laughing)
02:25 "She can't be there.
02:26 "She is a shitty person."
02:28 We can't forget that.
02:30 - Psychologically speaking,
02:31 vengeance rarely brings the catharsis we hope for.
02:34 - Yeah.
02:35 - Are we ready?
02:36 ♪ You blow up, you stay true ♪
02:39 - Let's talk about the fun house scene
02:40 because to me, it's one of the main reasons
02:42 to go see the film when you're finally all together.
02:44 And people will watch it
02:45 and they'll appreciate what you're doing,
02:47 but I don't think they'll fully appreciate
02:48 the amount of work that goes into
02:50 pulling a sequence like that off.
02:51 Can you just talk about how much went into
02:54 preparation for that, choreography for it?
02:56 I mean, there's some amazing stunts in it,
02:58 but how long does it take
02:59 to pull something like that together?
03:01 - Well, that sequence was very inhumane.
03:03 - Yes.
03:04 (laughing)
03:05 - But she's not, it's so rough.
03:06 We're not gonna tell you that's a lie.
03:08 It wasn't pretty.
03:10 We were in pain.
03:11 And in between takes,
03:13 I was definitely downing some highball energy drinks.
03:16 - Oh yeah, you were all about the energy drinks.
03:17 - Ooh!
03:18 I never drank energy drinks prior to this
03:20 and I was the person who was like,
03:21 "Don't do it, Jockey!"
03:23 My younger brother.
03:24 Man, that scene made me a believer.
03:27 (laughing)
03:28 - It was challenging for a lot of reasons,
03:31 but we had months and months of training,
03:33 but the sets didn't get built until very close to shooting.
03:36 So we did all the training and choreography,
03:38 but in like a big warehouse.
03:39 So then all of a sudden we're on set
03:40 and we're on a rotating carousel
03:42 that we've never rehearsed the fight on before.
03:45 - Right.
03:45 - With all these props coming from every direction
03:48 and I'm jumping on these tongues
03:50 that I haven't really had any time to practice on.
03:52 - My floors!
03:54 - I'm fighting on a seesaw,
03:56 but like 12 seesaws.
03:58 (laughing)
04:00 - It was a lot of on the fly, just go for it.
04:02 - You probably got out on a slide.
04:04 - They catch that epic.
04:06 (dramatic music)
04:09 - What?
04:10 - You were so cool.
04:11 - That also was like a day, I had like a day.
04:13 - No, that's my favorite part of the action sequence.
04:16 - Absolutely.
04:17 - And for me it was that, you know,
04:19 I was injured day one.
04:21 I tore my meniscus, this.
04:22 And so in the fun house, there was a,
04:25 I need a break, you know.
04:27 (laughing)
04:27 And then Son, he would come in,
04:29 you know, the physical therapist,
04:31 you know, massage my knee out,
04:33 put ice, okay, get back in.
04:34 You know, and it was tough.
04:36 - Like a real athlete though, you know.
04:37 - Yeah, it was.
04:38 - No, it's true.
04:39 - No, these girls were badass, I'm telling you.
04:40 - So for the sequel, you're behind the desk?
04:42 - No, honey.
04:43 - Sending them out?
04:44 - I'm gonna still be kicking ass.
04:45 - Good, good.
04:46 - You know, and you hear it or not.
04:48 - No, uh-uh.
04:48 - She ain't sitting nothing out.
04:49 - I'm not sitting anything out.
04:51 - How difficult is it to put your leading action star
04:54 in roller skates?
04:56 - Well, if she's Margot Robbie, not at all.
04:58 - Okay.
04:59 - Because she's just so incredibly capable.
05:01 I'm sure, you know, insurance wasn't super happy about it,
05:03 but she was such a good skater from I, Tonya.
05:06 - Oh, right.
05:07 - And so she was able to translate that really quickly,
05:09 like shockingly quickly.
05:11 We also obviously had, you know, a derby and roller skate,
05:15 like expert and mentor that like taught her
05:18 and trained her a little bit too.
05:19 But she does all of her own skate work in this movie.
05:22 - That's incredible.
05:22 - Which is insane.
05:23 - Yeah, that is insane.
05:24 Could this have ever been a PG-13 film?
05:28 (laughing)
05:29 - Yes, it could have been,
05:30 but I think it would have been a lot less fun.
05:33 - Yeah, very true.
05:34 And did you realize that early on, I guess?
05:36 - Margot had always wanted it to be R-rated as well,
05:38 it was how she pitched it.
05:40 And I think a lot of that was because it feels like
05:42 then we can really just let Harley be, you know,
05:45 who she wants to be,
05:45 like an unfiltered version of Harley Quinn.
05:47 - Oh, you're that psycho chick.
05:49 - I'll never call a woman a chick.
05:50 I'll accept broad lady, woman, and on occasion, bitch.
05:52 - Bitch?
05:53 - What are you talking about?
05:54 - Pull back for me, will ya?
05:55 (explosion)
05:57 - I cannot help but think of how different
05:59 this story might have gone
06:01 if Harley were just able to finish
06:02 her damn breakfast sandwich.
06:03 - I know. - I know.
06:05 - What a way to start my new life,
06:08 the perfect egg sandwich.
06:10 - I mean, do you know what?
06:12 There actually used to be a lot more
06:14 of the egg sandwich in the film.
06:16 - Really?
06:17 - And at some point everyone was like,
06:18 "I can't spend half a movie on an egg sandwich."
06:20 And Christina and I were like, "Of course we do."
06:22 (laughing)
06:23 - I had a woman behind me who screamed out
06:25 in physical pain as it fell to the floor.
06:27 (laughing)
06:28 - I love that.
06:29 - She just screamed out, "No, no!"
06:31 (laughing)
06:32 And I felt her pain in that moment.
06:34 Please just take me through the filming
06:36 of the creation of the bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.
06:38 - Oh yeah, that was so fun.
06:39 - It is food porn.
06:40 - Yes, yes, it was written in the script like that.
06:43 And I was, I love food, and I love food.
06:47 I watched like Joe Jindal's sushi five times,
06:49 and the way that the sushi glistens, you know?
06:51 And so we tried to just make it
06:53 the sexiest egg sandwich ever,
06:56 and the Barry White track doesn't hurt it, hopefully.
06:58 And then of course, just the drama
07:01 and the opera of it falling.
07:03 And that took some time, actually, to get it right.
07:07 And we shot on the Phantom,
07:09 so that could be super, super slow.
07:11 And Margot's face, I mean, her reaction.
07:14 - The cutaway is there.
07:15 - The cutaway is there.
07:16 - Yeah, just the tear, it's gold.
07:18 And we knew it on the day that it was gonna be a lot of fun.
07:21 - That felt pretty great.
07:23 - We are days away from a DC film
07:27 picking up some major Oscars,
07:29 and Joaquin winning for multiple--
07:31 - For a second I thought you meant us.
07:32 - I thought, no, I thought it was like--
07:34 - Who's gonna break it to this guy
07:35 that we are not up for Oscars?
07:36 - Not yet, not yet.
07:38 Next year, maybe.
07:40 But it speaks to that.
07:41 It speaks to the industry sort of taking these projects
07:43 with more seriousness, with more gravitas,
07:45 and recognizing the performances that exist in them,
07:48 and the goals that people are trying to achieve
07:49 with these films.
07:50 Is that what you guys are seeing in terms of the genre?
07:51 Also, has it evolved to a place of respectability?
07:54 - Sure, yeah, I mean, you know,
07:56 these, it's like we've been talking about these,
07:59 these parts are like Shakespearean.
08:01 You know, that's why we see, you get the Batman shirt on,
08:03 you see all these different Batmans and Jokers,
08:06 and it's like why we go to see Hamlet every couple years.
08:09 You know, so there's a lot to do with them.
08:12 And there's a lot of different interpretation,
08:14 and it's cool that they're being recognized in that way.
08:17 They're great characters, and there's a huge backstory,
08:21 and tons to draw from.
08:24 So that's really cool.
08:26 - Well, I think the material, the source material,
08:28 is like just a wealth of goodness, you know,
08:32 for an actor to get to dive into.
08:34 You know, there's so much there for pain,
08:36 and trauma, and experience,
08:39 that for an actor is like a treasure trove.
08:41 So it makes sense to me that you could take that
08:43 and make great filmmaking from it,
08:45 make great, great performances, make something special.
08:49 It doesn't have to be cheesy,
08:51 it doesn't have to be, you know, something unrelatable.
08:53 It can be very human and real.
08:56 - Or overly stylized.
08:57 - Or overly stylized, yeah.
08:59 It can be scrappy, it can feel like, you know,
09:02 real human beings, you know, in this metaphorical way.
09:05 - No, there's so much heart and humanity
09:07 in these comic books,
09:08 and I think that's why they're wildly popular,
09:10 is even though they're heightened and bigger than life,
09:14 at the core, are experiences we all can relate to.
09:18 - I was ready to embrace the fierce goddess within.
09:21 (sizzling)
09:22 (laughing)
09:24 - And it's very much so,
09:25 like Chris was talking about this last night,
09:27 like they're very much so like Shakespeare, you know?
09:29 It's set in times and eras that, okay,
09:32 maybe we don't live in,
09:34 but it's still set in the human experience.
09:37 And that we all can relate to,
09:38 and I think that's why they're so wildly successful.
09:40 - I mean, I think that what makes a comic book movie,
09:43 is really just the characters, right?
09:45 That we know them and we're familiar with them,
09:47 and they're based on lore and the history of them,
09:50 and that's what makes them so compelling.
09:51 But I love the ones that have sort of
09:53 pushed the genre a little bit,
09:55 or actually kind of try to reinterpret the genre.
09:58 And so, you know, Joker is also very much
10:00 a Martin Scorsese-owed movie,
10:02 or the way that Logan is actually a road trip movie
10:05 mixed with a western.
10:07 You know, I think those are really, really fun,
10:08 to be able to pay homage to other parts of cinema.
10:12 - Right. - Like this.
10:13 - Woo! - Turn it up!
10:14 ♪ Sky-catching, double-flashin' ♪
10:18 ♪ Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow your fuse ♪
10:21 (screaming)
10:23 ♪ When you're falling in love ♪
10:27 you
10:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]
