, Rocksteady Studio’s long-awaited follow-up to their 2015 gamebrought back several familiar characters, including one that might surprise long-time players: Poison Ivy. but this mean green fighting machine’s story is far from over. In the revived Poison Ivy is back but in a way that differs greatly from her last appearance in one pretty noticeable way, and no, we’re not talking about her newly green skin.
I think the fact that it was a new version made it a little bit easier because I wasn’t, you know, slipping into someone else’s “meat suit,” to use an Ivy term. You have a little more leeway because it is a new version of this character with a new point of view. There was definitely a level of excitement, of “Oh! I’m part of the club!” that came with stepping into a character that has a history so, so far back that everybody knows.
Well, there’s a lot of memorable moments. We continued recording during the pandemic, so I was recording from home in my whisper room—I got the whisper room so that I could keep recording from home—this project really took me through the last few years and everything that’s been going on. But, there was the crying scene where they put the bomb in head. We had to re-record it, and I don’t know which take they ended up going with, but the first take was “too real.
That must have been really interesting to get to explore this totally new character dynamic between Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. Because this is obviously a pretty different place for them, emotionally, than where they’ve been. Did seeing the animation in progress ever impact how you did like a take? Did you look at the animation and go, “Oh! Let me try it a little differently now that I’ve seen what they’re actually doing.”The First.