Suicide Squad director David Ayer recently shared a set of test photos from the film, featuring Harley Quinn actress Margot Robbie. Ayer's post to his Instagram account revealed the photos came from several of the make-up and costume tests done in various lighting for the film.
He captioned the photos, "These are part of the extensive make-up an wardrobe testing [process]. It began with my make-up designer Alessandro Bertolazzi trying various products on stand-ins, It’s like the rough draft of a script - How does the product interact with the skin, the lighting and camera lens? Then we did various tests on Margot. It is days and days of work to dial in the look. Then it has to repeatable every day. Margot is a soldier, she endured endless trial and error. During the course of the tests you can feel her discovering the character.@krsoze @margotrobbie #filmmaking #beauty #makeup"
The first photo features Robbie with her hair down in her prison outfit, while the second and third photos have Robbie in her gold and black diamond dress in various poses. The last photo puts Robbie in a look that's similar to Harley Quinn's iconic battle outfit in the movie, though Robbie has her hair down instead of in pigtails and a white fishnet top instead of her "Daddy's Lil Monster" t-shirt.
Written and directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad is set to hit theaters Aug. 6, 2021. Also joining the cast are David Dastmalchian, John Cena, Joaquin Cosio, Nathan Fillion, Mayling Ng, Flula Borg, Sean Gunn, Juan Diego Botto, Storm Reid, Pete Davidson, Taika Waititi, Alice Braga, Steve Agee, Tinashe Kajese, Daniela Melchior, Peter Capaldi, Julio Ruiz, Jennifer Holland, Idris Elba and Michael Rooker.