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NEW YORK — Will Smith and Margot Robbie had so much faith in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad that they joined the squad before Ayer’s script was complete.

Smith and Robbie were working together on the crime thriller Focus but they didn’t want to miss out on playing once-in-a-lifetime roles; Smith as assassin Deadshot and Robbie portraying sociopath Harley Quinn.

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“I had Margot before I even had the script and the same with Will,” says Ayer, promoting the finished product. “But when they showed up on the Toronto set, they were really ready to play.”

In the film, an incarcerated gang of supervillians gets released from prison to join a world-saving mission. To keep the squad in line, an explosive device has been inserted into each of their necks.

That doesn’t stop them from being their insane selves, because, after all, they can’t help the irresistible impulses.

The Suicide Squad file:

Deadshot (Smith); lethal hit man capable of extreme violence by night, father to daughter by day, refuses contracts on kids and women.