Meet Daniela Melchior, The Suicide Squad's Unlikely New Hero

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The actress talks fame, her ‘Suicide Squad’ audition and hanging out with rats

To say that Daniela Melchior’s chances were slim when she sent in an audition tape to play the rodent pied piper Ratchcatcher 2 in, which just hit both theaters and HBO Max, would be an understatement. For starters, the 24-year-old up-and-comer only did so out of fear that her manager would fire her. “I was really, really new in the industry, so I thought that would be possible,” she recalls with a laugh over Zoom.

Still wondering if it was a ploy to attract viewers in her native Portugal, Melchior eventually showed up to the screen test in what her managers guessed was Stateside protocol: full glam. The moment she walked in, director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran later told her, the pair “looked at each other and were like, ‘No.

Fortunately, Gunn and Safran were adhering to the mindset that there are two types of people in the world: those who would sooner perish than come into constant physical contact with rodents, and those who wouldn’t so much as blink an eye. Melchior immediately made it clear she fell into the latter category.

. Still, Melchior had next to no experience with doing publicity. “We don’t have that star system that there is in the United States,” Melchior says. “I can be the actress who’s working all the time, but who is not that popular. I can go take public transportation and people still ask,While her next English-language project is still under wraps, things are changing after her DC debut.

 

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