Birds of Prey star Margot Robbie has revealed that Ewan McGregor’s Black Mask was not the original choice for the DC Extended Universe movie’s main villain. Who was the original villain of Margot Robbie’s Birds of Prey?

Margot Robbie revealed in a new interview that The Penguin was originally the villain of her 2020 DC film "Birds of Prey" before "The Batman" filmmaker Matt Reeves asked her to use a different DC Comics character.

Colin Farrell earned a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination for playing Oz Cobb, aka the iconic Batman villain the Penguin, in his 2024 HBO series, but the character almost debuted in the DC Universe years earlier.