Harley. She never really left me. She was kind of always there.
[in British accent] I'm here to report a terrible crime.
And what terrible crime is that?
[in normal voice] This one.
[Sue Kroll] She's so intimately familiar with the character of Harley Quinn.
She loves devoting the energy and time to figuring her out.
I think that, now getting to play her again
is really exciting for her, too, because she gets
to dive further into the character.
She came back, like, really, really quick.
[Sionis's driver screaming]
What?
[laughing] She was, like, ready to go.
I met with Margot in the summer of 2015.
It was a morning meeting on, like, a Wednesday.
And when they were, like, "Can we get you a tea or a coffee?"
We both were like, "Um... Yeah... Are you gonna...
Yeah, I could have, like, a mimosa or something."
[chuckles] And I was just, like, "| love this chick."
She's not really, like, cookie-cutter playing-by-the-rules.
[Hodson] And we both started talking about
what we were both interested in, the kind of movies that we loved.
And what we both wanted to do.
She told me that she had this idea, this dream
of doing a Harley Quinn, girl gang, R-rated movie.
And lwas like, "|'m in. 100%, 1000%, I'm in."
Isn't this fun? It's like a sleepover.
Should we get pizza? Make cosmos?
-Har|ey, focus. -Okay.
I pitched already the general idea,
and I think the studios were a little trepidatious,
especially when it came to, like, the "R" rating.
And they were like, "What are you trying to do here?"
And I was like, "Let me bring you a script."
[Jurnee Smollett-Bell] When I got the script, I was like,
I thought it couldn't get even more batshit crazy, and it did.
[laughs] It was that, times ten.
Christina's brain is, like, really interesting.
Some of the stuff, I'm like, "How did you come up with this?"
Like what's going on in your little head?
She really could write like Harley. lfsinsane.
[Kroll] She's so able to catch the tone and spirit of these characters.
Like the cadence of it,
the words that she uses, she's so tapped in
to how these characters should sound.
It was just about having fun, really.
And we kind of wanted to just explode that
and see what would happen if you didn't follow any of the rules,
you didn't do anything that was expected.
Yes, I take my art incredibly seriously.
And this is a serious place.
And it was the desire for us to entertain the idea
of a younger filmmaker,
and somebody who could bring a very unique point of view to this world.
We met first, and I didn't think I could do this movie.
I mean, I'd just finished my first feature.
I was just starting to get into the system and figure out
what I wanted to do next,
and then I read this script, and it was, like, love at first read.
[Robbie] It felt really right when Cathy came in.
She understood the story, the characters,
she had so many additional thoughts.
[Bryan Unkeless] She can seamlessly work within a very artistic realm,
and she can follow her heart,
and she can hold her own.
And yet she also
is able to be very focused and organized,
and structured about executing on that vision.
[Harley] Hold up, hold up. I 'm telling this all wrong.
Let's rewind.
I love the tone of our movie.
lt was a challenge, as the director, to get right
because you can veer into just pure comedy,
but I want the movie to have heart and soul
and a real arc for all of these women.
It's a story about a group of women
coming together through all the zany craziness
to help one another.
[Hodson] I think, so often women in movies
are perceived as being, like, competitive relationships
rather than friendships and collaborations.
And we kind of wanted to see what it would be like to have
a movie about our friends.
Those, you know, late nights, at 4:00 in the morning,
after a night out, eating tacos.
Morning margaritas!
[Black Canary] Thank you. I got you.