Supermodel-turned-supervillain Cara Delevingne confesses preparing for Suicide Squad unleashed her dark side
CARA DELEVINGNE fantasised about killing people in “demonic” moments during filming for Suicide Squad.
The supermodel-turned-supervillain — who plays Enchantress in the DC Comics blockbuster — admitted the role left her “losing my f***ing mind” and imagining she was murdering people for real.
And she told The Sun on Sunday she would “rob a bank or kill” if she thought she could do either without facing any consequences.
Playing Enchantress, a 6,000-year-old witch spirit that has possessed archaeologist June Moone, meant Cara had to get into an evil mindset from the off.
The 23-year-old explained: “I tried to imagine the darkest s**t for a long time like seeing people crumble and their skin melt in front of me or making people implode and trying to use my imagination in dark ways.
“I remember seeing a guy behind a bar cutting up a cucumber then seeing him cut all the way up his hand and I thought, ‘I’m losing my f***ing mind!’
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“Is this going to stick? Am I going to have to be sent in and locked away?
“I don’t like being by myself anyway but it was more scary when I was acting out the role.
“I didn’t like going home and being alone with these thoughts.
“When I was in the outfit, I was far more demonic than I’m shown on screen, my character definitely felt evil and living in that was very emotional.
“I studied addiction, desperation, that void. It was draining, desperate, exhilarating and maddening.”
Cara has to flit between the sweet, loved-up June and the ruthless Enchantress, whose power the misfit superheroes in the Suicide Squad wish to harness, if they can keep her under control.
When asked if she could ever be as evil as her character, Cara, who stars alongside Margot Robbie, added: “I’d rob a bank if I could get away with it. I would kill.
“Margot said she’d just break windows. She’s so sweet.”
Cara’s role in the £190million blockbuster, released last Friday, is the biggest she has landed since swapping the catwalk for the big screen.
Following 2015’s indie romance Paper Towns and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in Pan, she shares top billing with established stars.
Margot plays deranged assassin Harley Quinn, with Jared Leto as The Joker and Will Smith as conflicted baddie Deadshot.
For her character, Cara revealed she was able to look to her own teenage years for inspiration, as she was obsessed by witchcraft as a youngster.
She said: “I’ve always been a big fan of witches so I knew a bit about that in the magic sense of it. I thought of her as a demon.
“It was more about finding the evil in myself and finding the demon and the darkest parts of myself, why people do things and want to destroy the world and, most of all, have no heart. Or if they did, why did they lose it all? What happened to them?
“It was figuring out how it would feel to be locked up in such a place and finally released to be able to take vengeance on something, kind of coming at it from a new place instead of just being an old witch who’s lived 6,000 years.
“Having to go back and do reshoots for the movie, I didn’t have to try to be evil at that point.
“Getting back into that stuff and having to sit there in this freezing cold rain, I thought, ‘I am going to kill all of you!’.”
Cara, who is the face of luxury fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, described herself as emotionally guarded in real life.
Cara, seen right in a recent photoshoot for Esquire, explained: “In life I find it hard to be vulnerable generally. We all have a certain amount of armour we that wear walking around in life.
“I know I’ve had to do that a lot and letting people in is tough but doing what I do . . . to be very vulnerable in front of people has been quite tough.
“That’s why I love film so much because it’s also about how to be a more open person with myself emotionally.
"That’s the best gift ever and I get to do that with my job.
“I would say I’m fearless in life but isn’t it the way with everyone though? Like the people you think are the most confident are hiding the most pain.
“Humour is a wonderful thing and also a great distraction. And again, some of the most amazing comedians are sad people underneath.
“It’s definitely a bit of a mask that people hide behind.”
She’s certainly not guarded in other ways — she went starkers in a forest to research the Enchantress role and revelled in her character’s out-there attitudes.
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She said: “It was f***ing awesome. Freeing. She doesn’t give any s**ts.”
Cara’s reputation as a Kate Moss-style caner has softened, something she says is down to falling head over heels for her musician girlfriend St Vincent, real name Annie Clark.
She admitted recently: “I’m completely in love. Before, I didn’t know what love was — real love.
“I didn’t understand the depth of it. I always used to think it was you against the world.
“Now I know the meaning of life is love. Whether that’s for yourself or for the world or your partner.”
Having been linked to men and women — including One Direction’s Harry Styles, Skins star Jack O’Connell and Fast & Furious actress Michelle Rodriguez — she says she is happy to be labelled gay.
She said: “As a child, I used ‘gay’ as a bad world, as in, ‘That’s so gay’.
“All my friends did. I’m obviously in love, so if people want to say I’m gay, that’s great. But we’re all liquid — we change, we grow.”
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MARGOT ROBBIE worked out non-stop so “nothing shook” when she was dressed as Harley Quinn.
The Aussie actress, who had to defend her character’s outfit last week amid suggestions it was too revealing, said: “I worked my butt off so nothing shook – including my butt.
“I’ve done trapeze training in the past. For this film I started training about six months before.
“I was doing gymnastics every second day and going to the gun range every second day. I did jiu-jitsu three times a week, boxing four times a week and personal training.
“To go to the gun range wasn’t about my precision of aim – that doesn’t really matter in a movie. It was about being able to hold a really heavy gun with one hand and be able to reload without looking, then not have your arms shake, because my forearms were so weak that the gun would be wobbling.
“I’m drinking a lot of beer now.”