From femme fatale to romantic leading lady, Margot Robbie finally got a chance to work with Colin Farrell .

Before her A Big Bold Beautiful Journey co-star’s tenure as Oswald Cobblepot, the 3x Oscar nominee almost went toe-to-toe with the DC supervillain when she starred as Harley Quinn in director Cathy Yan ‘s Birds of Prey (2020).

“The first draft that Christina [Hodson] wrote of Birds of Prey , the villain was the Penguin ,” she told Farrell in an interview for Entertainment Weekly . “And then [ The Batman director/writer] Matt Reeves said, ‘Don’t use the Penguin. I’m going to use him in my thing.’ And so we swapped it to Black Mask [played by Ewan McGregor ].”

After she last appeared as Harley in James Gunn ‘s The Suicide Squad (2021), the DC St

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