Mary Elizabeth Winstead Calls ‘Birds Of Prey’ “Funny And Weird” & Says It Reminds Her Of A ’90s Film

Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been steadily showing up in movies for almost 15 years. From early films like “Final Destination 3” to more recent stuff like the underrated “All About Nina,” Winstead is a familiar face amongst film fans. But perhaps her two biggest films, both in terms of budget and potential superstardom are still ahead of her with this year’s “Gemini Man” and next year’s “Birds of Prey.”

And as she explained in a new interview with the New York Times, the actress had to go through some pretty rigorous training to become the action film star that she is going to be in both films. However, when you compare the two films, “Gemini Man” and “Birds of Prey,” she thinks that the latter film, a DC comics superhero film co-starring Margot Robbie, required much more effort on Winstead’s part.

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Winstead said, “In ‘Gemini Man,’ I’m a D.I.A. [Defense Intelligence Agency] agent who’s been hired to keep an eye on Will Smith, but in ‘Birds of Prey,’ I play this assassin who’s been trained since childhood. It’s all women and genuinely funny and weird. It feels from the ’90s, in the best way.”

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Regardless of the amount of action prep that the actress had to endure for “Birds of Prey,” it’s nice to hear that the film looks to be as “funny and weird” as the first pictures and teaser seem to indicate. In the film, Winstead plays The Huntress, and she teams up with Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Jurnee Smollett-Bell’s Black Canary as a badass group of anti-heroes that have to take down the Black Mask, played by Ewan McGregor.

“Birds of Prey” is directed by Cathy Yan and is set to hit theaters on February 7, 2020.