The Suicide Squad stars Joel Kinnaman and Margot Robbie explained why only writer/director James Gunn could have made the DC Extended Universe film.
Robbie and Kinnaman will reprise their roles as Task Force X members Harley Quinn and Rick Flag, respectively, in Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. The two actors both appeared in the original Suicide Squad in 2016. “I was very excited to read [Gunn’s] script,” Robbie said in an interview with Toronto Sun. “I knew it was going to be great because I love his films and I know that he loves comic books, so I thought there was no way it wasn’t going to be great. But it was still incredibly surprising.”
Robbie went on to say that “you still can’t get used to the direction [Gunn’s] bizarre sense of humor is going to go in sometimes,” and added that if anyone else had written the script, she would have said no to the film. “Because I would have been like, no one can pull this off,” she said. “This is so weird and specific and big … no one could pull this off except James Gunn.”
Kinnaman, who joined Robbie during this interview, added that Gunn was able to succeed with The Suicide Squad because of how familiar he is with the source material. “He knows the genre so well,” Kinnaman said. “He knows how far he can take things and how irreverent he can be. But after seeing the film, what struck me was how he creates these little moments; these pockets of sincerity and poetic beauty that I thought were very surprising. He was able to create them without it feeling pretentious or unwarranted or unearned.”
Robbie and Kinnaman are not the only stars of The Suicide Squad to praise Gunn’s work on the film. Amanda Waller actor Viola Davis recently gave her own thoughts on it, calling Gunn “a fierce leader” and saying that he had “created an experience that made [the cast and crew] all feel cared for and worthy!!!”
Written and directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad arrives in theaters and on HBO Max on Aug. 6.
Source: Toronto Sun
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