AD“We just snuck it in there,” “Birds” director Cathy Yan says by phone. “I have to give all the credit to Christina Hodson,” she adds, referring to the British screenwriter (“Unforgettable,” the Transformers franchise film “Bumblebee”) who first showed Yan the script in 2018. AD“We always knew we wanted to have this string-out of ridiculous things that Roman would get upset at Harley for, so we just kept throwing things out there,” recounts Yan, who notes that the reference was purely for humor’s sake. Because the graphic whizzes past in a flash, “that makes it even funnier,” Yan says. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy has appeared in five Batman films, including 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and even shared a scene with Harley’s sometime boyfriend, the Joker, when he was played by Heath Ledger in 2008’s “The Dark Knight.”

Source: Washington Post February 08, 2020 12:00 UTC