Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie on those skimpy hotpants

AUSSIE superstar Margot Robbie loved her role as a bad girl in Suicide Squad so much, she wanted to take some of the crazy character home with her.

AUSSIE superstar Margot Robbie loved her role as bad girl Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad so much, she wanted to take a little piece of the psychotic character home with her.

But while she keeps Harley’s baseball bat by her bed, Harley’s hot pants and fishnets have no place in the bedroom.

Even if Robbie’s boyfriend were to ask really nicely.

“He ... no he hasn’t (asked),” Robbie laughed to News Corp Australia. “That would be very weird.”

The actor’s boyfriend of three years is British filmmaker Tom Ackerley. In Suicide Squad, the love of Harley Quinn’s life is The Joker (played by Jared Leto).

Robbie says Harley’s weapon of choice, a baseball bat with the words “good night” emblazoned down the side, serves a double purpose in her home.

Super villains beware.

“In case anyone breaks into my house, I’ll be fully prepared,” she said. “Plus when I go to sleep it says ‘good night’.”

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The actor has apologised in advance to mothers everywhere. Picture: Warner Bros

Robbie in Harley Quinn’s brief — to say the least — supervillain outfit. Picture: Warner Bros

Harley’s baseball bat will be swinging into Australian cinemas in Suicide Squad on August 4. The movie is set in the same DC Comics universe as another 2016 blockbuster, Batman v Superman.

While Harley Quinn has long been a favourite of comic book cosplayers, playing Harley dress-ups just got a whole lot easier for American fans with US chain store Hot Topic — a favourite with emo and goth kids and pop culture geeks over the years — announcing a Suicide Squad-themed clothing line.

A copy of Harley’s “Daddy’s Lil Monster” T-shirt and a pink/blue Harley hair dye kit is among the items available to help wannabes reach their Squad goals.

The Australian actor is in the midst of a mammoth two-month, around-the-world promotional blitz for her two blockbusters, The Legend of Tarzan and Suicide Squad Picture: AP

When News Corp Australia visited the set of Suicide Squad in Toronto last year, Robbie, 26, issued an advance apology to mums for “when their eight-year-old daughter is putting on fishnets and looking like a hooker”.

Readers can find the full Suicide Squad set visit story this Sunday in News Corp Australia newspapers.