While promoting her new film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey alongside Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie explained that the character’s inclusion was blocked by The Batman director Matt Reeves. “The first draft that Christina [Hodson] wrote of Birds of Prey,

Margot Robbie revealed the villain who was originally supposed to be at the forefront of her Birds of Prey film. Here’s what she said.

Farrell, who portrays Oswald 'Oz' Cobblepot, a.k.a. the Penguin, in The Batman (2022) and the HBO series The Penguin (2024), was surprised to learn that his character was originally intended to appear in Robbie’s Birds of Prey film. As Farrell explained that their characters: