Margot Robbie dishes on ‘Suicide Squad’ co-star Idris Elba's dorky dad jokes

James Gunn's The Suicide Squad brings back a few of our favourite unhinged supervillains like Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) but it also introduces us to new characters like John Cena's Peacemaker, Pete Davidson's Blackguard, Sylvester Stallone's King Shark and Viola Davis's Amanda Waller.

Idris Elba has also joined The Suicide Squad as Robert DuBois, a.k.a Bloodsport, who was incarcerated for shooting Superman with a Kryptonite bullet and putting him in the ICU.

While he plays a mercenary on-screen, Margot Robbie revealed to Etalk's Chloe Wilde that her co-star took on the dad role on set, fully equipped with the dad jokes.

“As far as slipping into the leadership dad role I’d say that only went as far as his dad jokes. He has a lot of dad jokes which you just don’t expect from Idris. You’re kind of like, ‘Yeah, he’s cool, rapper, DJ.’ And then you’re like – sometime it’s like – just proper dad jokes and you’re like, ‘Wow, Idris, you’re such a dork,’” Robbie revealed.

“There wasn’t a specific leader of the gang. Everyone got along so well. It really did turn into a family pretty quickly. That always makes making movies so much more fun when you genuinely love the people you’re working with,” she added of the atmosphere on set.

When it comes to Harley Quinn’s evolution throughout the years, Robbie says she has enjoyed getting to know her at every stage of her life.

“I just love kind of playing her at different stages of her life. The first time I played her, she kind of had this perceived security by being in a relationship with Mr. J and then in Birds of Prey she’s kind of lost that and trying to figure out if she can stand on her own two feet," Robbie explained.

“In this film, she knows she can stand on her own two feet and she’s also kind of ready to look for love again. Romantically speaking, there’s been quite an evolution but she’s just been very different. She’s been at very different stages in her life in all three films so I’ve had fun with that.”

Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior also joined the Suicide Squad as Cleo Cazo, a.k.a Ratcatcher II, daughter and protégée of Ratcatcher. After being arrested, she became a member of Task Force X where she formed a close relationship with Bloodsport.

The Suicide Squad marks Melchior’s English-language film debut alongside Elba, Robbie and the rest of the crew. NBD!

“I felt that I was really, really lucky to have Margot as a colleague and everyone else in the cast. They all deserve to be where they are. I’m still speechless. I shot the movie two years ago almost and I still don’t know what to say about it because it was so full of emotions like good people, good experience, lots of jokes, lots of fights – but in a good way just while shooting,” Melchior said of her experience.

BEFORE YOU GO: Margot Robbie is taking a break from social media

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