VIDEO: Margot Robbie Explains 'Birds of Prey's Connection to Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'

The long-awaited ninth movie from Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, comes out this weekend, starring big names such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie, the latter of whom is apparently taking her director’s energy and “injecting” it into another project of hers.

Robbie is returning as bat-swinging Harley Quinn in the upcoming DC Extended Universe venture, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). What fans weren’t privy to was just how much Robbie, her cast-mates, and director Cathy Yan wanted to infuse Tarantino-esqe themes into the film.

In a recent interview with MTV News, as reported by ComicBook.com, Robbie shared that the film used the working title Fox Force Five, a reference to a famous Pulp Fiction scene. The actress explained:

“In Pulp Fiction, When Uma and John Travolta are having their $5 milkshake, she's explaining the pilot that she - which I think, in real life, Uma had done. I think that dialogue was based on the fact that she'd done a pilot like that. And then he turned it into dialogue, and then she talks about Fox Force Five. And it's like a whole scene. But in our movie, there's five prominent women. And like, we always throw a reference to like, Tarantino moments that we pray to like inject into the film. So it felt fitting. And then, I also asked Quentin, I was like 'Would you mind if we used the working title Fox Force Five?' And he thought it was really funny."

You can watch the full interview below.

Keep an eye out for other Tarantino references in Birds of Prey when it is released Feb. 19, 2020.