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 made the surprising revelation during a recent interview — shocking Colin Farrell, who was being interviewed as well.

His film features Penguin in a rather important role, one that has since gotten even more important thanks to the award-winning HBO spinoff show. So, had Reeves not asked for the character to be taken out of Birds of Prey,