Last week, Jared Leto revealed that he practiced his cackling Joker laugh in the bustling streets of New York and Toronto to prepare for Suicide Squad. This week, Cara Delevingne, who plays Dr. June Moone, aka Enchantress, bested her co-star by detailing her method acting… methods, and it’s, well… it’s something.
Take a look at what Delevingne said in an interview with W Magazine:
I met the director, David Ayer, at a hotel in London on a dark and stormy night. He didn’t tell me anything about the movie. Instead, he showed me pictures of these amazing, enlightened, powerful, but very evil women. He spoke to me about addiction and mental illness, which are things I find very, very interesting. The next time I met David was at his house in L.A. He asked me to read a scene from ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ I love that play and had acted in it at school when I was 17, so I was excited. Somehow, when we were doing the scene, I became livid. I hadn’t felt rage like that in years. And then I got the part!
There still wasn’t a script, but David asked me to go and try and find a forest and, if it was a full moon, get naked and walk through the woods with my feet in the mud, which I did. There wasn’t a full moon, but I howled like a wolf. It would have been really funny if someone had seen me.
What these actors do to prepare for their roles never ceases to amaze me. We writers, well… we mostly just drink a lot.
In case you forgot, Suicide Squad comes from the collaborative minds of DC Comics and Warner Bros. The film centers on a group of villains who get recruited by the government to do heroes work.
Suicide Squad arrives in theaters August 5.
