Harley Quinn animated interview

So... I read this article recently.. 

Metro.co.uk Harley Quinn's Kaley Cuoco and Lake Bell clashed over swearing limit on foul-mouthed DC series Abbie Bray 03/12/2019

....and it confirmed some things.

Kaley Cuoco and Lake Bell clashed over their characters in the Harley Quinn animated series for who could swear the most per episode – but who do you think had the last F-word? 

The foul-mouthed cartoon sees Kaley star as the titular anti-heroine, who decides to break up with the Joker and become a supervillain in her own right, teaming up with gal pal Poison Ivy (Lake) to join the Legion of Doom. Although what fans don’t know is that the show has a limit to how many swear words they can use per episode. And as a result, the stars had a bit of healthy competition by revealing they would try to claim more F-words for their characters. 

‘We don’t shoot together,’ Lake told ET. ‘We don’t record together and there’s often a fight.’ 

‘About who gets more [F-words],’ Kaley added. ‘Did Lake take the last f*** again?’

The over the top swearing made the adult themed show just that much more juvenile... like hearing Maggot Robbie spit out 'pussy' because she was under the impression that that's how you show that your character is so much more fearless than the Joker. Just... trying too hard and ultimately failing. Unless she was trying to cover us in spit, in which case she may have succeeded.

And speaking of the woman who has doomed all of my searches for the ACTUAL Birds of Prey or anything Harley related to end in her gross mug showing up, here's what the executive producer had to say about it.

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk about why Margot didn’t reprise the legendary superhero, executive producer Justin Halpern explained: ‘Margot was never going to be able to do it because she was doing the Birds Of Prey film and a million other things. ‘We talked with Margot a couple of times but only in so much as, “Here’s what we’re doing, I don’t know what you guys are doing”. ‘ 

I think they wanted to make sure there wasn’t too much overlap between this show and the movie.’ Justin added that she wasn’t nervous to take on the role of Harley and that she was keen to make the character her own.

She was very specific about the take she wanted to do and I think that was probably because there have been so many different innervations of Harley,’ he said. ‘I think Kaley really, really did not want to do a version of Harley that would be a rip off of another version of Harley.’

This raises a few questions. Firstly, did someone get to the level of executive producer and not know the difference between innervation and innovation? Otherwise that's an editing error for the website and that's equally disappointing. Secondly, why would Maggot be consulted about what's happening on the animated show? I get it if they were trying to get her to be the voice actress (ugh) but these are two different versions of Harley. Do you think people are consulting with Keaton about the latest Batman cartoon? How about Gadot? Does she get a say in the new animated Wonder Woman movie?

If the answer is no, then why is Maggot being treated like Harley-Jesus? If anything, they should be talking to Dini about it. This raises an issue in both Cuoco and Maggot being their own executive producers and maybe having too much control over the character - even though... AGAIN - they exist in two different universes.

Is the Harley from BTAS the same one that appears in Harley Quinn or The Brave and the Bold? Um, no. How about Thrillkiller Harley? Is she the same one that appeared in Mad Love? No, ya filthy animal. Why would they be concerned about telling two different stories in two different universes with two different interpretations of a character? Heck, if DC can't even consult with writers doing the same character IN UNIVERSE simultaneously, then I don't see why they should be making these ones line up and keep in their box. It's just weird man.