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Warner Bros. released the footage after it leaked online_ by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Aug 19, 2015 4:45 PM UTC by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Aug 19, 2015 4:45 PM UTC Eight of the original fellowship members from _Lord of the Rings_ may have got matching tattoos when they finished filming, but the cast of _Suicide Squad_ took it a step further by actually _giving_ each other matching tattoos. On Tuesday, director David Ayer [tweeted photos](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/18/margot-robbie-suicide-squad-tattoo) from Harley’s Tattoo Parler Parlour of Margot Robbie wielding a tattoo gun in character as Harley Quinn. Soon after, other _Squad_ members like Joel Kinnaman (who plays Rick Flagg) and Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang) started posting photos of their own ink. Kinnaman shared a photo of his new “skwad” tattoo, courtesy of co-star Will Smith, who plays Deadshot. “Will has many many talents, tattooing is not one of them,” Kinnaman wrote on Instagram. “It was like watching a drunk baby fly a helicopter.” _Suicide Squad_, which also stars Jared Leto and Cara Delevingne, hits theaters next summer. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/19/suicide-squad-cast-tattoos) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ## Transcript [ NOISE ] Is checking some work but I finally have them. The worst of the worst? [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ] Where? Let's just say I put them in a hole and threw away the hole [ MUSIC ] There's rumors Amanda that some of them have abilities. Oh yeah. I have seen things. Maybe Superman was some kind of beacon for them to creep back from the shadows. I want to assemble a task force of the most dangerous people on the planet who I think can do some good. [ MUSIC ] They're bad guys. Exactly. And if anything goes wrong we blame them. We have built in deniability. What makes you think you can control them? Because getting people to act against their own self interest is what I do Father [ UNKNOWN ]. [ MUSIC ] Are you the. [ MUSIC ] All you need to know is you work for me. [ MUSIC ] So that's it, huh? We're the patsies? We're some kind of suicide squad? Let's go save the world. [ MUSIC ] Here at Smash Creek. [ MUSIC ] Just hope you got insurance. [ LAUGH ] Now they say they're the crazy ones. Huh? [ MUSIC ] Oh, I'm not gonna cure you. [ MUSIC ] I'm just gonna hurt you really, really Bad. 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