Suicide Squad’s Enchantress, model-turned-actress Cara Delevingne, has opened up about her character’s killer moves in the film, and recalls her disappointment over losing the title role in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie.

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Speaking to Time , Delevingne hyped the upcoming David Ayer-directed supervillain flick, saying, “[Suicide Squad] is going to be freakin’ awesome,” and went on to tease, “I kill people with my bare hands.”The actress-model revealed that for her Suicide Squad audition director David Ayer asked her to perform the character of Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a role that she had played in a school production. But Ayer told her to forget everything she knew about the character and try reading it enough different ways that Delevingne wanted to "beat people up" by the end of the audition.Delevingne told Time how she’s been modeling to pay for acting training, with the intention of one day acting as a full-time gig – that is, only if her characters are strong: “Everyone tried to typecast [me] as the dumb blond model or the girl who gets killed…I take what roles I do very seriously. I always want to portray a strong female. Acting roles for women are usually less strong and, like, bleeding hearts.”Before her days as a DC Comics supervillain, Delevingne was up for the lead role in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which ultimately went to Mia Wasikowska. Delevingne called the missed opportunity "the worst rejection I’ve ever gotten,” adding, “I didn’t get over that for, like, three years." She decided to stay in school and postpone her foray into acting until recently.Head over to Time for the full interview with Delevingne, where she shares some strong words for haters…Suicide Squad hits screens August 5, 2016.

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