Cara Delevingne entered the superhero game by taking on the role of Dr. June Moon, an archeologist who is eventually possessed by an ancient sorceress who refers to herself as The Enchantress in 2016's "Suicide Squad." The main villainess of the piece, The Enchantress brings together a wide array of jailed bad guys together under the quasi-command of Amanda Waller (Viola Davis). Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), The Joker (Jared Leto), and a host of others come together to stop The Enchantress before she destroys the world.
According to an interview with W Magazine in 2016, as archived by IGN, Delevingne harnessed her inner Martha to get the role; she read a scene from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for director David Ayer to pass her audition. It was a character she last played as a 17-year-old high school student. "Somehow, when we were doing the scene, I became livid. I hadn't felt rage like that in years. And then I got the part!" she said.
Ayer's other suggestion to Delevingne was unique, to say the least. "David asked me to go and try and find a forest and, if it was a full moon, get naked and walk through the woods with my feet in the mud, which I did. There wasn't a full moon, but I howled like a wolf," she recalled.
While her feral performance couldn't save "Suicide Squad" from poor reviews, Delevingne moved on to play a supporting role in the historical drama "Tulip Fever" and the critical darling "Her Smell." She would also have a lead in "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," which did poorly at the box office but has become a cult classic. She would concentrate on television to deliver her next spate of memorable parts.
