Margot Robbie Wants a Harley Quinn-Poison Ivy Romance

We don't know when Margot Robbie’s next appearance as Harley Quinn in the DC Universe will be, but the actress already knows the direction in which she wants her character to head when she does return.

Robbie revealed to ComicBook.com that she wants a Harley Quinn-Poison Ivy romance to happen. The Babylon star says that she has "been pushing" the queer romance "for years," adding, "I cannot tell you how hard I’ve been pushing for that. I want it too."

When asked if she has an actor in mind to play Poison Ivy, Robbie, 32, responded, "Honestly… I always picture like Poison Ivy in the comics. I don’t really actually picture an actress doing it." Robbie started her role as Harley Quinn in David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad before reprising the character in 2020's Birds of Prey and in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (2021).

The next time Harley Quinn returns to the big screen, it won’t be played by Robbie. Instead, Lady Gaga has been announced to star in the role opposite Joaquin Phoenix for the highly anticipated Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux.

"It makes me so happy because I said from the very beginning that all I want is for Harley Quinn to be one of those characters the way… like Macbeth or Batman always gets passed from great actor to great actor,” Robbie told MTV News about Gaga taking over the role. “Someone gets to do their Batman, or someone gets to do their Macbeth. I feel like, in not so many cases, there are female characters — Queen Elizabeth I… which I got to have a crack at as well, which I was honored to do. I was like, ‘Wow! Cate Blanchett did Queen Elizabeth I. Now I get to.’ It’s such an honor to have built a foundation strong enough that Harley can now be one of those characters that other actors get to have a go at playing. And I think [Lady Gaga] will do something incredible with it.”

There are over seven billion people alive on this Earth. So the possibility of a doppelgänger walking around looking exactly like you is highly probable. A doppelgänger is defined as a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck or seen as an evil twin. Research has found that people who are "true" look-alikes have more similar genes than people who don't feature a resemblance to one another.

Doppelgängers have made their way into modern literature, films, and television. Some of our favorite examples include the series finale of Twin Peaks. In the chilling scene, Special Agent Dale Cooper encounters a variety of doppelgängers in the Black Lodge, one of whom is a malevolent version of himself. His doppelganger switches places with him at the conclusion of the 1991 finale, trapping the original in the Black Lodge. In the show's sequel, Twin Peaks: The Return, three different doppelgängers are dispatched from the Black Lodge.

Christopher Nolan's 2006 psychological thriller, The Prestige, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest, revolves around rival stage magicians in Victorian London. They feud over a perfect teleportation trick in which the performer appears to transport across the stage instantaneously. It is revealed that one of the illusionists has actually been using a doppelgänger to perform the trick -- his twin brother.

Another great use of doppelgängers appears in Stephen King's book, which was also made into a fantastic HBO series that was canceled way too soon: The Outsider. In it, the antagonist can use the DNA of individuals to become their near-perfect match through a science-fictional ability to transform physically. The allusion to it being a doppelgänger is made by the group trying to stop it from killing again.

Take these 17 celebrity pairs, for example: in Hollywood alone, there are plenty of celebrity lookalikes. You wouldn't believe they don't share the same genes. See what the stars have in common besides their physical traits as well as how they handle the comparisons below: