Margot Robbie on Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in ‘Joker 2’ – Billboard

Whereas it hasn’t been formally confirmed that Girl Gaga will play Harley Quinn in Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, it’s positively doable — and Margot Robbie is absolutely onboard with that potential casting.

Robbie, who most lately performed Quinn in 2021’s The Suicide Squad, has portrayed the previous Arkham Asylum psychiatrist since 2016’s Suicide Squad and mentioned she’d be “so completely happy” if Gaga took on the function within the Joker sequel.

“It makes me so completely happy as a result of I mentioned from the very starting is all I need is for Harley Quinn to be a type of characters, the way in which, like, Macbeth or Batman all the time will get handed, you realize, from nice actor to nice actor,” Robbie mentioned throughout a latest interview with MTV Information.

She continued, “It’s form of like somebody will get to do their Batman, or somebody will get to do their Macbeth or somebody, you realize? And I really feel like in not so many instances are there feminine characters.” Robbie defined that one of many few feminine characters that has gotten handed on to different actors is Queen Elizabeth I, however there aren’t many past that.

“It’s such an honor to have constructed a basis sturdy sufficient that Harley can now be a type of characters that different actors get to have a go at taking part in,” Robbie mentioned of Gaga probably portraying Quinn. “I feel she’ll do one thing unimaginable with it.”

Gaga hasn’t but been confirmed to be taking part in Quinn in Joker 2 reverse Joaquin Phoenix’s Clown Prince of Crime. However the supervillain is understood for his on-and-off abusive relationship with Quinn, his former psychiatrist who falls in love with him and turns into his accomplice in crime.

If Gaga is to tackle the function in Phillips’ sequel, her model of the character would exist in a distinct DC Universe than Robbie’s does, leaving house for each actresses to play the psychiatrist-turned-criminal in separate movies.

Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener and Jacob Lofland spherical out the forged of Joker: Folie à Deux, which is set to hit theaters on Oct. 4, 2024. 

This text initially appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.