From femme fatale to romantic leading lady, Margot Robbie finally got a chance to work with Colin Farrell. Before her A Big Bold Beautiful Journey co-star’s tenure as Oswald Cobblepot, the 3x Oscar nominee almost went toe-to-toe with the DC supervillain when she starred as Harley Quinn in director Cathy Yan‘s Birds of Prey (2020).

Margot Robbie revealed in a new interview that The Penguin was originally the villain of her 2020 DC film "Birds of Prey" before "The Batman" filmmaker Matt Reeves asked her to use a different DC Comics character.

Matt Reeves isn’t a criminal mastermind like his The Penguin muse Oz Cobb, but he did steal one pretty major thing: Penguin himself. Margot Robbie exposed the director’s underhanded dealings in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview with her A Big Bold Beautiful Journey co-star Colin Farrell—who just happens to play The Penguin in The Batman and the eponymous,