DC’s Birds of Prey Adds Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell
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10 Cloverfield Lane standout Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Underground’s Jurnee Smollett-Bell have been added to the cast of DC’s Birds of Prey, opposite Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, per THR.
Before Winstead and Smollett-Bell landed their respective roles, possible candidates included the likes of “San Junipero” star Gugu Mbatha-Raw and The Leftovers’ Margaret Qualley, among others.
While Robbie reprises her Suicide Squad role as part of the forthcoming film’s titular female superhero team, Winstead and Smollett-Bell bring two new characters into the DC film universe. Winstead will play Huntress, a longtime Batman character who hasn’t appeared in any of the franchise’s films to date. Meanwhile, Smollett-Bell has been cast as street fighter Black Canary, which brings a non-white actor into a role that’s historically been portrayed as white in the comics.