--- title: Suicide Squad: Margot Robbie on the Joker and Harley Quinn description: Margot Robbie reveals the Joker's effect on Harley Quinn in the movie Suicide Squad. canonical: https://time.com/4401715/suicide-squad-joker-margot-robbie-harley-quinn/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-11T20:37:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:16.569Z og:title: Margot Robbie on How the Joker and Harley Quinn Get Really Scary og:description: Still crazy after all these years og:url: https://time.com/4401715/suicide-squad-joker-margot-robbie-harley-quinn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Margot Robbie on How the Joker and Harley Quinn Get Really Scary twitter:description: Still crazy after all these years twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Margot Robbie Reveals How the Joker Brings Out the Crazy in Harley Quinn by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 11, 2016 8:37 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 11, 2016 8:37 PM UTC The publicity machine for [_Suicide Squad_](http://time.com/4288039/suicide-squad-footage-mtv-movie-awards/) continues to churn out [new factoids](http://time.com/4288039/suicide-squad-footage-mtv-movie-awards/) about what [the Joker](http://time.com/4397007/suicide-squad-the-joker-plot/) will be up to, and who he’ll be mad at. [Rat recipient](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/13/suicide-squad-margot-robbie-jared-leto-rat) Margot Robbie who plays his love interest, supervillain Harley Quinn in the movie, explained more about the dynamic between Harley and the Joker in an interview with [Collider](http://collider.com/suicide-squad-margot-robbie-interview/). What’s it like when these two lovebirds are together? Creepy! --- > “” --- If not for the Joker, Harley wouldn’t be sane or anything, but she’d be _more focused_. --- > “” --- Still crazy, after all these years. See them get weird together in the movie on Aug. 5, 2016. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4401715/suicide-squad-joker-margot-robbie-harley-quinn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4401715/suicide-squad-joker-margot-robbie-harley-quinn/"},"headline":"Margot Robbie Reveals How the Joker Brings Out the Crazy in Harley Quinn","datePublished":"2016-07-11T20:37:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:16.569Z","description":"Still crazy, after all these years","url":"https://time.com/4401715/suicide-squad-joker-margot-robbie-harley-quinn/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","celebrities","jared leto","Suicide Squad","margot robbie"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4401715/suicide-squad-joker-margot-robbie-harley-quinn/","name":"Margot Robbie Reveals How the Joker Brings Out the Crazy in Harley Quinn"}}]}] ```