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 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: