Margot Robbie Goes a Little (American) Psycho in New Video
Suicide Squad’s promotional blitz is ramping up, and on the heels of news that Margot Robbie’s clown princess of crime Harley Quinn may soon be getting her own spin-off film, the actress has channeled her upcoming role’s psychopathic deviancy for a clip evoking another famed movie villain.
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In a new video tied to her appearance on the June 2016 cover of Vogue (watch it above), Robbie takes viewers on a tour of her morning routine—which, as it turns out, just happens to eerily resemble the preparation habits of Patrick Bateman, the yuppie serial killer of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (played, in the 2000 film version, by Christian Bale). While peeling off her facial mask with cold, dead-eyed precision, Robbie intones:
“There is an idea of Margot Robbie, some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.”
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Directed by Paranormal Activity 4’s Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, the clip also charts Robbie as she engages in some meditation and performs a ritual by holding black tea-dipped spoons over her eyes—ceremonies that lend the clip an additional creepiness. Harley Quinn, she of the smeary make-up, ratty t-shirts, and tight hot pants, likely has very different morning habits, though she’d no doubt feel a kinship with this parodic version of the Australian actress’ split personality-style habit of speaking about herself in the third person while discussing her elaborately demented beauty process.
Suicide Squad arrives in theaters on August 5.
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