THE SUICIDE SQUAD: James Gunn Teases Four-Minute Harley Quinn Scene That's The Biggest Stunt Of His Career

THE SUICIDE SQUAD: James Gunn Teases Four-Minute Harley Quinn Scene That's The Biggest Stunt Of His Career

The Suicide Squad director James Gunn has teased a Harley Quinn-focused sequence in the DC Comics movie that he says is the biggest action scene of his career. Find more details on that after the jump...

By JoshWilding - May 20, 2021 04:05 AM EST
Filed Under: The Suicide Squad
Source: Associated Press

The Suicide Squad is clearly going to be a fun ride, and if the first trailer is any indication, an action-packed blockbuster to boot. That's a point James Gunn emphasised in a recent interview with Associated Press while talking about a sequence revolving around Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn. 

"She’s able to do the comedy. She’s able to do the drama. And physically, she is a pure athlete and is able to do these stunts in such a graceful, magnificent, beautiful way," the filmmaker said, praising the actress. "And so I wrote the biggest action scene I’ve ever done all around (Robbie’s character) Harley, and it was so fun to create just on every level from working with the stunt guys all the way through to working with her."

"It’s probably my favorite four minutes of film I’ve ever shot before," Gunn continued. "[Margot Robbie] can do anything. Or I thought she could do anything. And then one day she had to sing and I said, ‘OK, well you can do everything but one thing.’ But she’s such a great actress. She embodies the character."

That's high praise indeed, and The Suicide Squad writer and director would later take to Twitter to add: "Not only the most fun I’ve ever had on set, and the most impressed I ever was with a performer, it’s probably the coolest action sequence I’ve ever shot." He also confirmed that the cast was told whether their character would live or die when they were offered their roles. 

While Robbie is phenomenal as Harley, she's had a tough time of it on the big screen thus far. Many fans complained about the sexualised depiction of the character in David Ayer's Suicide Squad, while Birds of Prey ended up being a commercial disappointment for Warner Bros. 

The Suicide Squad will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on August 6th, 2021. 
 

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BatNips
BatNips - 5/20/2021, 4:43 AM
Sounds like a scene where my nipples could get hard
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 5/20/2021, 4:54 AM
@BatNips -
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/20/2021, 4:47 AM
Would be funny if it ends in her death. Not that I don't like the characters, it would just be a real ballsy move by Gunn
UXASIS
UXASIS - 5/20/2021, 5:01 AM
I hope she isn't the main character.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/20/2021, 5:20 AM
I’m positive it’ll be better than this scene
Kingdork
Kingdork - 5/20/2021, 5:22 AM
@BlackBeltJones - what's wrong with this scene?
MyGodItsRobert
MyGodItsRobert - 5/20/2021, 5:41 AM
@Kingdork - Awful choegraphy, edgy cringy set piece, and bad camera work.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/20/2021, 5:47 AM
@Kingdork - Everything.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 5/20/2021, 5:50 AM
@BlackBeltJones - Holy shit. I still haven't seen this film and have no real interest in doing so, but that "fight chorography" right there...sheesh.

I know when a 90 pound woman almost makes contact with my foot, I go flying UP in the air.
And dude in the striped shirt double-pumping falling backwards...man looks so natural. Lol


GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/20/2021, 5:52 AM
@Kingdork - what @MyGodItsRobert said
aresww3
aresww3 - 5/21/2021, 2:14 AM
@Kingdork - it looks awful. the impact looks staged and garbage
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/21/2021, 8:48 AM
@Feralwookiee - Don't bother it's crap, No sexy Harley Quinn,women good men bad and women can beat up men that are double their size.

Its woke crap.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 5/21/2021, 9:46 AM
@marvel72 - That's totally what it looked like and mostly what I've heard and I generally ignore that kind of needless propaganda shoved into my escapist entertainment.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/20/2021, 5:49 AM
She was the best character in Suicide Squad then she turned shit with her appearance and performance in Birds Of Prey.

I hope Gunn can make her good again.
AC1
AC1 - 5/20/2021, 5:49 AM
Most anticipated DC movie in years, even more than the Snyder Cut.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 5/20/2021, 8:08 AM
@AC1 - well that tells you all, because snyder cut sucked ass.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 5/20/2021, 6:19 AM
"[Margot Robbie] can do anything. Or I thought she could do anything. And then one day she had to sing and I said, ‘OK, well you can do everything but one thing.’"

Mugens
Mugens - 5/20/2021, 12:13 PM
@MosquitoFarmer - Yeah that was the one thing in the article that actually cracked me up.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 5/20/2021, 6:30 AM
Singing? Looks like James Gunn might be homaging a DCAU tradition.
http://i.insider.com/54e4d23beab8eac91b11959b?width=1200


Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 5/20/2021, 7:23 AM
@GwenLantern -
Roodi
Roodi - 5/20/2021, 9:36 AM
Harley was NEVER in danger of getting killed off in James Gunn's "I was allowed to kill anyone" Suicide Squad.
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