Margot Robbie opens up about the two years she spent sleeping next to a facsimile of herself The suicide squad co-star John Cena, and it’s hilarious.
As seen in a video that recently started making the rounds on social media again, Robbie previously discussed the experience during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with James Gunn and Cena himself. Robbie explained that she herself was a casual person WWE fan as a child and teenager before beginning a romantic relationship with a die-hard fan. “Then in my late teens, early 20s, I had a boyfriend who was obsessed with John Cena.”
“So much so that he dressed as John Cena for his 21st birthday,” Robbie continued. “And he had a cardboard cutout of John Cena in his bedroom. So I slept in a room, for two years, with a life-size cardboard cutout of John Cena in the bedroom. Sometimes I’d wake up in the middle of the night and then I’d be like, ‘(gasp), Oh, it’s just John Cena. It’s okay.’ Robbie added: “I remember thinking, what if now that I’m going to work with John Cena, should I tell him this or is this going to be weird, and I thought I’m just going to keep it to myself. I’m not going to tell him. That would be a strange way to start our working relationship. “
Robbie and Cena shared the big screen together as members of the 2021 ensemble cast The suicide squad. The film saw Robbie reprise her role as Harley Quinn and marked Cena’s debut as Christopher Smith, better known as Peacemaker. The suicide squad was a huge critical success upon release, although the film failed in theaters for a variety of reasons ranging from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to the film’s availability on HBO Max. At the time of writing this article, The suicide squad holds a whopping 90% “Certified Fresh” rating via review aggregator Rotten Tomaotes, averaged from nearly 400 verified critical reviews of the film.
Will Margot Robbie return as Harley Quinn in the DCU?
Although Robbie hasn’t returned to the role of Harley Quinn since The suicide squadfans may not have to wait as long as they think before seeing his version of the character make his DCU debut. Last August, DC Studios co-head James Gunn responded to a question about Robbie’s potential place in the DCU with: “That will be revealed later.” While this doesn’t provide any concrete confirmation in itself, fans have taken it as tacit confirmation that Robbie will indeed be back as Harley Quinn in the near future, as Gunn has had no qualms about shooting down inaccurate fan theories or speculation.
The suicide squad is currently available to stream on HBO Max.
- Release date
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August 6, 2021
- Runtime
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132 minutes
- Director
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James Gunn
- Producers
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Charles Roven, Peter Safran
- Franchise(s)
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DC Extended Universe, The Suicide Squad
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Margot Robbie
Harley Quinn
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