Margot Robbie Learned To Hold Her Breath For Five Minutes For Suicide Squad

As soon as Margot Robbie isn't one spicy pepper as Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey, she's snacking on hot wings.


The actress appeared in a recent episode of Hot Ones, where she did her absolute best to create it through a series of progressively hotter wings, all splashed with different flavors of sauces.


certainly, that wasn't all she was there to do. Between fanning herself and gulping down water to try and make it to the next sauce, Robbie shared a number of interesting tidbits from her experience filming Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey as Harley Quinn. One point of interest? She actually learned how to hold her breath for five minutes for her role in Suicide Squad, which is nothing to sneeze at. She also boned up on her rollerskating skills for Birds of Prey.


"I spent a lot of the movie on rollerskates. We actually have a big scene in the movie on a moving carousel, and I'm beyond a moving vehicle. It's just really hard to do all that on wheels, so that was very challenging.


"That's, like, a fun party trick right now. It's a fun thing to mention 'hey, I can hold my breath for five minutes,'" she mentioned of her newfound skill, which she learned from a real free diver.


"He shows you how to take a big breath and expand your diaphragm and all that stuff. Really the most crucial thing he indicates to you is what occurs as soon as your body gets deprived of oxygen, and while you know, it's not that scary any time it begins happening. He's like 'so, you'll have convulsions whenever you get to this point.' Then you must, like, 30 or 40 seconds soon after that, so just ride out the convulsions, and they'll get worse, and this will happen." She explained the process in detail, which sounds like a terrifying ordeal – like, underwater convulsions – yet that's how dedicated Robbie is to her craft, soon after all.


you could go visualize Robbie putting her skating skills to work in Birds of Prey on February 7.