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We'll see Margot Robbie playing both the venerable role of Jane Porter in "The Legend of Tarzan" (out Friday) and every fanboy's psycho sweetheart Harley Quinn in the DC Comics supervillain spectacular "Suicide Squad" (Aug. 5).

Guess that makes the 25-year-old Australian this year's Queen of Summer Movies, doesn't it?

"Audiences are going to be so sick of me after this summer," jokes the actress who has certainly not worn out her welcome yet with attention-getting performances in "The Big Short," "Focus" and "The Wolf of Wall Street." "I'm just worried that people are going to be like, 'Oh my God, this chick again. Go away, forget it!' "

More likely, they'll be asking for more of what Robbie brings to the two iconic roles.

First portrayed onscreen by Enid Markey in the 1918 "Tarzan of the Apes," the consort to Edgar Rice Burroughs' King of the Jungle was most memorably embodied by Maureen O'Sullivan opposite Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in the 1930s and '40s. "Legend's" Jane, though operating in the late 19th century, has a more contemporary attitude than others.

"She's a very modern-day version of Jane, I think," Robbie says. "We really embraced the idea of her being a bit of a nonconformist to society at that time. She grew up in the Congo, which was very different to London, and she's eager to get back home to her roots. You can tell that she's a free spirit — and pretty feisty, very intelligent and capable."

Years after the boy raised by apes has moved back to England and acclimated himself to life as a British Lord, Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is drawn back to Africa to fight King Leopold of Belgium's horrific treatment of the colonized Congolese. His wife Jane is captured by Belgian Captain Rom (Christoph Waltz), but it's uncertain who turns out to be more in need of rescuing.

"She's definitely not a damsel in distress," Robbie reports. "That was actually the main thing that I refused to do. I do not swing on vines, either. It's not really the loincloth version of Tarzan and Jane …but there are vine-swinging moments, I'm just not doing them."

Harley Quinn loves to swing baseball bats, however — and doesn't really care who might get brained with them.

"Suicide Squad" finds her sprung from prison and teamed up with such other bad people as Deadshot (Will Smith), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and her sometimes lover The Joker (Jared Leto), as part of a secret government troubleshooting team. Trouble with that is, Harley loves trouble.

"She's been a psychiatrist and she has a thorough understanding of mental illnesses and how to profile people," Robbie explains. "She kind of uses that as her arsenal to manipulate people now that she's Harley Quinn. She's incredibly intelligent, and just utterly gleeful whenever there's mayhem and chaos. That's just Christmas Day to her, and she is the happiest when things are going terribly wrong."

Insert "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" joke here. After the film that's supposed to launch Warner Bros.' DC cinematic universe bowed to negative critical and disappointing box office receptions this spring, rumors circulated that "S Squad," the next film in the franchise, was ordered into reshoots to make it more "fun," the lack of which was a major "BvS" complaint.

Robbie, who says she had a blast every day during director David Ayer's principal photography (which included scenes with the latest Batman, Ben Affleck), sounds perplexed by the very idea of messing with the movie.

"I don't think they're going to try and change it based on the release of anything else," she reckons. "All I know is, when we shot it there were moments when I was dying of laughter on set. There are funny moments, there are serious ones, there are big action set pieces, I think there's a bit of everything. I wouldn't say it's supercomedic or superdark or a straightforward action film either. I haven't seen it yet, but on the set we seemed to have a pretty wide range."

As does, we learn every time we see her, the Queen of Summer.