What’s up? It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and Jared Leto is
setting the record straight on whether or not he actually gave Margot Robbie a rat as a gift.
Ok. I know, just when you thought the news couldn’t get any weirder,
Jared Leto enters the chat.
Fans know that Jared Leto and Margot Robbie both starred in
Suicide Squad which was released in 2016.
Margot is starring in the upcoming Suicide Squad 2 movie that comes out this summer.
And while fans loved seeing them as Harley Quinn and The Joker, they were also friends off screen.
Back in 2016, while they were promoting the first movie,
word got out that Jared supposedly pulled a major prank on Margot.
According to GQ, Margot revealed that Jared was so committed to his role as The Joker,
that he went full method actor and gave her a rat in a box as a prank gift.
But after an initial freak-out,
GQ reported that Margot actually developed a bond with the animal and named it Rat Rat.
She said quote, “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.”
Ummmmm. Ok.
But Margot said that eventually her landlord found out,
so she ended up rehoming the rat with director Guillermo del Toro.
Other Suicide Squad cast members like Will Smith also spoke about
Jared pranking Margot with the rat in interviews.
“Margot opened the box and there was a live rat in the box and so I wasn’t Deadshot. I wasn’t
Deadshot at all in that moment. I screamed for sure, yeah yeah it was pretty aaaahhhw.
But Jared really set the bar and we’re like oh. He’s taking this very seriously.”
And Jared himself said the rat in a box was a success in his mind.
“I think it freaked everybody out, but that was the point. The point was maybe to inspire some
chaos and insanity on the set.”
But even though Margot revealed that she had kept the rat as a pet, rumors started
to swirl around online that the rat Jared had gifted his co-star with was actually dead.
We found out later that this ended up being a combination of two separate rumors from the time.
One, that Jared had given a rat to Margot and two, that he had given a dead pig to the crew.
Viola Davis, who plays Amanda Waller in the Suicide Squad
movies spoke about the dead pig in an interview with Vanity Fair.
“He did some bad things, Jared Leto did. He gave
some really horrific gifts. He had a henchman who would come into the
rehearsal room and the henchman came in with a dead pig and plopped it on the table.”
But now all these years later, Jared is speaking out..
In a new interview with GQ, Jared went through
and broke down his most iconic roles, one of which was of course The Joker.
He described getting to step into The Joker’s shoes was like getting
to play this generation’s version of an infamous Shakespearean character.
Lots of people have played The Joker before, and more will in the future,
so Jared found a way to make the role his own.
But he said that while they had fun working on Suicide Squad,
it really quote, “took on a life of it’s own.”
Jared then went on and clarified that he never gave Margot Robbie a dead rat,
despite everyone all these behind the scenes stories.
He revealed what he actually gave Margot instead, and it honestly sounds much lovelier than a rat.
“I never gave Margot Robbie a dead rat. That's just not true. I actually gave her a lot of...
I found this place in Toronto that had great vegan cinnamon buns and that was a very common thing.”
Ok so, you’re telling me what we all believed this
rat story for the last five years and it wasn’t true?
He did say he didn’t give her a dead rat, maybe he really did give her the living one...
I don’t know what to believe, the entire cast was in on these stories!
Now we can’t help but wonder what other behind the scenes stories are made up. Or
maybe Jared is the one who’s now lying all these years later?!
At this point, any tinfoil-hat explanations are welcome.
Margot Robbie, Will Smith, and Viola Davis have
not spoken out about the matter since Jared’s recent interview.
But we will keep you guys posted if anyone from the cast clarifies!
For now, if you want more on what other crazy things actors have done for their
movie roles click right over here for another Clevver News video.
Though now, we’re not sure if they’ve all been telling the truth! Let us know down in the
comments if you think the Suicide Squad cast has been lying bout these stories for all these years.
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!