Matt Reeves isn’t a criminal mastermind like his The Penguin muse Oz Cobb, but he did steal one pretty major thing: Penguin himself. Margot Robbie exposed the director’s underhanded dealings in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview with her A Big Bold Beautiful Journey co-star Colin Farrell—who just happens to play The Penguin in The Batman and the eponymous,

His film features Penguin in a rather important role, one that has since gotten even more important thanks to the award-winning HBO spinoff show. So, had Reeves not asked for the character to be taken out of 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.