'Suicide Squad' Star Cara Delevingne Enchants as a 'Feral' Sorceress on Empire Cover
Cara Delevingne on the cover of ‘Empire’ Magazine
She might not have her name tattooed to her stomach, but as this first-look demonstrates, Cara Delevingne’s Suicide Squad get-up guarantees that her Enchantress character is no joke.
The 23-year-old Paper Towns star appears on an alternate cover of this month’s new Empire Magazine, which features one of the first in-depth stories on director David Ayer’s DC super-villain team-up flick, hitting theaters August 5, 2016 (Jared Leto’s Joker was featured on the main cover). Delevingne’s version of Enchantress is wearing a metal bikini that would make Princess Leia blush. Along with a gigantic necklace and a crescent moon on her forehead, she looks like she just woke up in a swamp — which certainly fits the character bio that Delevigne offers up in a tease of the story posted online.
“She’s an ancient sorceress,” Delevingne explained about the character, who has bounced around between different comic titles since her introduction in a 1966 issue of Strange Adventures. “A feral being. She’s been trapped for so long and now she’s finally let out.”
As we saw in the trailer that was released at Comic-Con, Delevingne also plays June Moore, the woman whose body is overtaken by the evil witch deep in a forgotten cave. “June is an adventure-seeker who’s always wanted some excitement,” the English actress adds. “And she gets what she wished for, in a terrible way.”
In June, Delevingne went on Late Night With Seth Myers, where she described Moore as a “mousy scientist.” She also told Myers that she auditioned for Ayer using a monologue from the intense 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf — not exactly traditional comic book material — and left the audition so riled up, she thought she might kill somebody. Which, to be honest, would make perfect sense for Enchantress.
Suicide Squad, which also stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, and Viola Davis, hits theaters on August 5, 2016.
