![]() Similar to her character, Winstead has short, dark brown hair. Mary Elizabeth Winstead in 'Birds of Prey.' Claudette Barius/ & DC Comics Winstead's character wields a crossbow, rides a motorcycle, and seeks revenge in the movie. McGregor’s Roman and Messina’s Zsasz are great movie villains for so many reasons, but, for a movie that is about (and has been partially marketed as) a reclaiming of the narrative from men, it feels necessary-whether it was intentional or not. Mary Elizabeth Winstead portrays Helena Bertinelli, also known as the Huntress. While the gender politics of the film’s woman protagonists-man antagonist setup may have been unintentional in its conception, it’s a reality of the finished story. I think both Chris and Ewan bring this delicious, visceral, very human villainy to the story.” We didn’t want some megalomaniacal, mustache-twirling, blow-up-the-world villain. In the eighth DC film, Harley Quinn must team up with superheroines Huntress (Winstead), Black Canary (Smollett-Bell), and Renee Montoya (Perez) to save Cassandra Cain (Basco) from the crime lord. And it was also fun to just have a street-level villain that fit with these women. “Roman, himself, is hunting for this diamond, because it means, in some ways, and emancipation from his parents. Her character is completely different in the. “You can see Zsasz so trapped in this incredibly unhealthy dynamic with Roman,” says Hodson. Who plays Cassandra Cain in the movie After small appearances in Veep and Teachers, Ella Jay Basco makes her big screen debut in Birds of Prey. But truly, it started at character level and evolved from there.”įor Hodson, the decisions on who would be cast as the story’s villains was driven by the theme of emancipation-not just for the female protagonists in the film, but also for the male villains. That they represent the patriarchy whatever. ![]() “I think people will take a bit what they will. “It’s just how it developed, when we figured out who could be the best counterparts to this,” says Hodson.
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