How Margot Robbie Got Ripped For Birds Of Prey

Landing a role in a superhero movie comes with more than just a nice paycheck and a steady work opportunity. Actors are now expected to get in superhuman shape for action roles, and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn is no exception. Here's how she got into havoc-wreaking shape.

Of course Margot Robbie is fully dedicated to playing Harley Quinn now, but she originally got the role without even having to convince anyone she wanted it. The actress told MTV News that the team behind Suicide Squad approached her with the role, offering her the part without even having to audition.

As it turns out, the producers were captivated by Robbie's performance alongside Will Smith in the 2015 movie Focus. Smith was already locked in to play Deadshot, and Suicide Squad wanted to recreate that connection when they cast their Harley Quinn.

"I guess they knew that Will and I worked well together, so that was a given. We didn't have to do chemistry reads or anything like that."

The studio's gamble paid off, and while the overall reviews for Suicide Squad were less than enthusiastic, the dynamic between Smith and Robbie was a consistent high point of the film.

Margot Robbie is already in pretty great shape, thanks to working out four or five times a week for an hour each session, according to Hollywood personal trainer Andie Hecker. To get in fighting shape for her comic book movie, however, she ramped that up to three hours per day.

As part of a ballet-based fitness program that Hecker operates, Robbie worked out in three-hour blocks nearly every day for three weeks while filming Suicide Squad. Hecker told People magazine that the focus on Harley's body and her skimpy costume pushed Robbie to work out that much harder. According to Hecker,

"There's a scene in Suicide Squad where she changes clothes in front of a bunch of dudes, so her abs needed to be impeccable. And in those tiny shorts Harley wears, her butt was constantly on display."

The parts of Robbie's body that were onscreen for most of Suicide Squad became the focus of her tailored workouts. Hecker came up with an exercise routine that would transform Robbie from a glamorous starlet into the tough and acrobatic Harley Quinn. According to Hecker,

"[Margot] wanted to lean out and tone up. She’s already slender, but we wanted to make her a little stronger.”

To achieve these goals, most of Robbie's workout regimen consisted of non-bulking cardio exercises like ballet jumps. As a former dancer who runs a ballet training program, Hecker told People that the jumps ballet dancers perform are, quote, "surprisingly the most challenging form of cardio I have ever come across."

But despite the relative difficulty of the exercises, Hecker said that Robbie rarely ever faltered in her commitment to the routine. Hecker compared Robbie to a machine when she spoke to the Los Angeles Times. The actress' workouts apparently resembled dance marathons, where other clients of Hecker's would steadily throw in the towel while Robbie kept at it, relentlessly. Keep watching the video to see how Margot Robbie got ripped for Birds of Prey!

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Becoming Harley Quinn | 0:16
Getting in shape | 1:14
Every day is cheat day | 3:48
Getting back into form | 4:37
A brand new Harley | 5:40


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