The Birds of Prey promotional tour is kicking off and Mary and her co-stars Margot Robbie, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Rosie Perez are featured in the new digital issue of Glamour UK. You can also read more about their Glamour shoot here. Click the pics below to view the whole set and see some behind the scenes videos from the shoot.
“I got divorced a couple of years ago, which was a scary, crazy thing for me because I had been with the same person since I was 18 years old, and that was what I knew. All the way through my twenties I was trying very hard to keep myself the same, because another thing I heard a lot growing up was people saying, ‘you’re so great, never change.’ You can take that to heart, in the wrong way, and try to keep yourself from growing too much because you don’t know what’s on the other side. So I was really starting new as an adult for the first time in my life. For me that was a big turning point, being OK with changing, accepting that change is a good thing and that it’s OK not to know where that change is going to take you.”
On how Scott Pilgrim VS the World affected her after it performed poorly at the box office:
“When I was 24 years old, I did this movie, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and it didn’t do well. Had that happened now I would handle it much better. But I was really disappointed. I thought it was going to be really big and I thought my career was going to change but it didn’t, it just stayed the same. It took a couple of years for me to really wrap my head around being grateful for those couple of years of not really getting much great work and having, I’m- never-going-to-match-anything dark moments. Twentysomething-me couldn’t have the perspective that the thirtysomething-me has on that kind of experience. I had the time to really figure out who I was and what I wanted, and I did exactly that in those couple of dry years after that movie came out.”
On how she’s changed now that she’s in her 30s:
I’ve got to the point where I just don’t give a sh*t. I’ve also had this feminist awakening when you look around and, for a lot of us I think it started happening at the same time as the Me Too movement, a lot of things that had been lying dormant within us started waking up, and realizing so many of us felt the same way and we don’t actually have to accept it.
How did a superhero movie become one of the most feminist films of 2020? For starters, women made all the big decisions. Our digital cover features the stars of ‘Birds of Prey’— @MargotRobbie, @rosieperezbklyn, @jurneesmollett, and #MaryElizabethWinstead https://t.co/Dq6Os6H74D pic.twitter.com/N3cERlHjoO
— Glamour (@glamourmag) January 15, 2020
“There was no pecking order going on; it was just women.” @rosieperezbklyn “appreciated how @margotrobbie can be in charge but not make you feel less than.” That unity translated offscreen too. https://t.co/yaIjqAactl pic.twitter.com/VioUHnH2vp
— Glamour (@glamourmag) January 15, 2020
“You’re not scrutinized with, ‘How can she look hotter?’ Which is an experience I’ve definitely had in the past.” Along with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, her ‘Birds of Prey’ co-stars say they felt incredibly safe on set. https://t.co/yaIjqAactl pic.twitter.com/M0uRzaJahD
— Glamour (@glamourmag) January 15, 2020
Birds of Prey Cover Shoot BTS https://t.co/CMtPPhHRwq #BirdsOfPrey #Huntress #MaryElizabethWinstead @MargotRobbie @jurneesmollett @rosieperezbklyn #HarleyQuinn #BlackCanary
— Mary E. Winstead Net (@MaryWinsteadNet) January 15, 2020