Margot Robbie Wants Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy’s Love Story In Movies

Margot Robbie has yet to confirm if she’ll reprise her role as the baseball bat-wielding Harley Quinn in future films. But if she does, a new love interest may be joining her, if she has any say in the matter. During a recent interview, Robbie said that she hopes a queer romance may be in the cards between her character and Poison Ivy.

“I have been pushing for that for years,” she told ComicBook.com in a recent interview. “I cannot tell you how hard I’ve been pushing for that. I want it too.” When asked who she envisioned playing the character, who was portrayed by Uma Thurman in 1997’s Batman & Robin and is voiced by Lake Bell in the HBO Max animated series, Robbie replied:“Honestly… I always picture like Poison Ivy in the comics. I don’t really actually picture an actress doing it.”

After stepping into Harley’s platform boots for 2016’s Suicide Squad, 2020’s Birds of Prey, and 2021’s The Suicide Squad, Lady Gaga will reimagine the role opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. “It makes me so happy because I said from the very beginning that all I want is for Harley Quinn to be one of those characters the way…like Macbeth or Batman always gets passed from great actor to great actor,” Robbie told MTV News in October about Gaga’s casting. “Someone gets to do their Batman, or someone gets to do their Macbeth.”

Robbie continued, “I feel like, in not so many cases, are there female characters — Queen Elizabeth I…which I got to have a crack at as well, which I was honored to do. I was like, ‘Wow! Cate Blanchett did Queen Elizabeth I. Now I get to.’ It’s such an honor to have built a foundation strong enough that Harley can now be one of those characters that other actors get to have a go at playing. And I think [Gaga] will do something incredible with it.”