Margot Robbie has found her girl squad. Warner Bros. has chosen Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Jurnee Smollett-Bell to join the actress in Birds of Prey.
Winstead will play the Huntress, a longtime Batman character while Smollett-Bell will play Black Canary, who is an expert fighter that is known for her “canary cry.” The character has traditionally been white in the comics, but Warner Bros. is casting diverse faces reflective of today’s moviegoing audience.
The actresses won the roles after several rounds of chemistry reads and screen testing that also included Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who starred in Belle and appeared in Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time, Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), and Cristin Milioti (Black Mirror, How I Met Your Mother), among several others.
Birds of Prey, which has Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn from DC’s Suicide Squad, hits screens on February 7, 2020.
