Lady Gaga; Margot Robbie.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty; Mike Marsland/WireImage
Margot Robbieis more than happy to be passing the torch for one of her most iconic roles.
“It makes me so happy because I said from the very beginning, all I want is for Harley Quinn to be one of those characters, the way Macbeth or Batman always gets passed from great actor to great actor,” Robbie said.
“And I feel like in not so many cases are they female characters,” she explained. “Queen ElizabethI, but like beyond that — which I got to have a crack at as well, which I was honored to do. I was like, ‘Wow, Cate Blanchett didQueen ElizabethI. Now I get to.'”
She added of Gaga: “It’s such an honor to have built a foundation strong enough that Harley can now be one of those characters who other actors get to have a go at playing. And I think she’ll do something incredible with it.”
Lady Gagaconfirmed her casting in director Todd Phillips’Joker: Folie à Deuxon social media in August, postingan animated videoof her andJoaquin Phoenix’s silhouettes set to old-timey music.
The 36-year-old superstar actress and musician is set to star alongside Phoenix, 47, in the upcoming musical sequel to 2019’sJoker, though her role has not been announced.
PEOPLEconfirmed Gaga’s involvementin the film — specifically, that she was in talks to play Harley Quinn — back in June.
While plot and character details are still unknown, Harley — originally known as Dr. Harleen Quinzel — is villain Joker’s love interest/sidekick in several iterations of theBatmanstory, and met the sinister prankster while serving as his psychiatrist at Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum.
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Robbie has spoken out about needing to take a “break” from portraying the fictional psychiatrist-turned-vigilante.
Admitting that she has no plans to reprise her DC Extended Universe character in the near future, Robbie toldEntertainment Weeklylast year, “I was like, ‘Oof, I need a break from Harley, because she’s exhausting.’ I don’t know when we’re next going to see her.”
source: people.com
