Birds Of Prey Release Date, Cast And Story

At New York Comic Con 2019, Margot Robbie gave an interview to DC Daily along with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, and Ella Jay Basco. In it, characterization became center focus with questions posed to each woman about their place in the film. With emancipation being an overall theme, Perez cited Detective Montoya's need to emancipate from the patriarchal suppression she experiences in the police department, and how she would use her sometimes-overbearing sense of justice to "fulfill her agenda." It sounds like a kind of chaotic-good alignment — justice at any cost.

Smollett-Bell described Black Canary as a person needing emancipation of the self, a woman who feels uncomfortable in her own skin and specifically with her powers. Her journey is about mastering her ability and her identity in order to find purpose. Basco says Cassandra Cain is a street-smart take-no-guff girl who is eminently capable of manipulation of everyone around her, friend or foe. This is a particular turn given the fact that the plot summarizes her as needing rescue — she may be in danger, but she's clearly still determined to look out for number one. 

And Harley? According to Robbie, the story "is told from her point of view," and that means color, drama, and a wildly unreliable narrator. But at its heart, this movie is guided by the premise that women can save each other, as well as save and establish themselves securely away from the iniquities laid upon them by the world.