On the one hand , everything we ’ve seen from Suicide Squad makes it very likely that it ’s go to be the best celluloid of DC ’s new motion-picture show world so far . On the other hand , filming it voice like it was a complete nightmare .

Regardless of the trailers , the costume , or the stunts , it ’s what pass off off - sieve that stands out most about this film . This is a picture show about a crocodile man , a woman with a magic sword , and a boomerang enthusiast , but there was much uncanny Irish bull move on off - camera than on . Here is a abbreviated story on this lunacy .

Dead Animals

First , the first foretoken that things were unusual were reports of Jared Leto ’s put-on “ in character . ” Adam Beach , who plays Slipknot , toldE ! that Margot Robbie ( Harley Quinn ) got a betrayer , Will Smith ( Deadshot ) got a bunch of slug , and the eternal rest of the cast contract a dead pig . Which was all well and weird , but the storytold by Ike Barinholtzis much staring than Beach ’s version :

He did this gaga affair . All the actors were rehearsing , and his part is in love with Margot Robbie , she ’s Harley Quinn . So we ’re rehearsing , and this actor who plays the Joker ’s kind of police lieutenant , walks in and he goes , “ Present for Ms. Quinn . ” Hands her a box . She open up the box , and a alive , gargantuan black rotter pops out . And we ’re like , “ What the roll in the hay is going on ? That ’s unhinged ! ”

So 20 minutes later , we ’re still rehearsing , and the histrion comes back in and he move , “ This is for the squad from Mr. J. ” And he throws a pig on the table , a bushed slovenly person , and as he puts the pig on the table all these bullets go to come out of it … this is in a rehearsal distance a calendar month before we started shooting .

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Leto was apparently so aware that he was going to be a nightmare that he discourage the crew ahead of metre , with costume intriguer Rene Fontanasaying“When we first meet him , he say — look , girls , I ’m decease to be somewhat intense , I ’m going to be the Joker when I come for fitting . ” And that was just what happened , since Fontana also said , “ Sometimes he tried to terrorise us , but we ’re potent women . He was growl at us , and we ’d play back . ”

In fact , even reporters invited to the lot during filmingwere toldto call Leto “ Mr. J , or Smiley . ”Severalof hiscastmateswere worried about approaching him when he was n’t in costume . To quote asemi - apocryphal fib , try acting , dear male child . It ’s much promiscuous .

Bad Tattoos

In addition to Leto wandering around stuck in the Joker ’s hide , there was also “ Harley ’s Tattoo Parlor , ” where the casting — mostlyRobbiebut alsoWill Smith — give and get tattoo of the word “ skwad . ” The spelling alone would be bad , but , again , the story astold by Barinholtz to Howard Stern(viaHitfix ) makes this strait less like a design and more like a series of drunken mishaps :

She has a tattoo triggerman , so [ the cast of characters would ] get intoxicated and [ she ’d be ] like , “ all right , let me give you a tattoo . ” And one of the guy she tattooed , she made a bounteous typo . And he was like , “ Oh it ’s nerveless , do n’t worry about it ! ”

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— David Ayer ( @DavidAyerMovies)August 18 , 2015

Psychological Torture

When Leto was n’t terrorizing people with “ gifts ” and Robbie was n’t giving people messed up tattoo , theatre director David Ayer was physically and psychologically excruciate the mold . “ There ’s all sorting of little illusion he has , handling that pen up into the process , you do n’t know you ’re victim to until it ’s in full effect , ” Jai Courtneysaid . “ It ’ll be sad to stop working with him , all of us hope that opportunity will do again . ” That does n’t sound the least act like Stockholm Syndrome at all .

Ayer ’s summons , Joel Kinnaman uncover in that sameYahoo ! set report , includes asking “ questions in front of everyone that were hard to elude . ” They have to utter about their fear and embarrassing or painful memories in front of strangers . Ayer offer the same information , of row , but he would n’t fight any of them .

Physical Pain

That ’s right . In improver to the enforced sharing , Ayer revealed that he also made the cast punch each other .

The dry run was very vivid . It was n’t a normal dry run , we ’d mouth about their lives , their account , and really go them to open up up as people to each other . I also had them fight . I had them fight each other . You learn a lot about who a person really is when you perforate them in the font . It gets disembarrass of a stack of the player stuff .

( Of of course , Leto was n’t in the dry run process , so he did n’t get rid of the “ actor poppycock . ” Hence the crumb and pig and things . )

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Everything was so acute that there was a sort of therapist / life coach - type personaround the setjust in case . This does n’t sound like a summer camp - elan set as much as a “ summertime summer camp from a horror movie ” variety of solidifying .

I have no doubt that the shape is as close - knit as they keep saying they are . They survived something utterly ridiculous .

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