Oh, good. I was worried we were going to have to get through the summer without seeing Cara Delevingne roll her eyes through another promotional tour. Cara is gearing up to promote Suicide Squad, so she covers the June/July cover of W Magazine. And because she’s an actress now and not a model, she’s doing her Angry Baby Face in every photo – you can see W’s slideshow here. If Bella Hadid’s one expression is set to “sedated,” Cara’s expression is always set to “sullen.” Anyway, Cara says many words to W Magazine now that she’s an actress! Some highlights:

Wanting to be someone else: “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be other people. I went through different stages: I was a few Spice Girls for a while—first Baby, then Sporty, and then Ginger. I was never Posh, because she wore little black dresses, and I didn’t want to be that kind of girl. Beyond that, I only dreamed of being male superheroes. Spider-Man, especially, had a cool costume and cool toys. There were not many strong superhero-type women, apart from Wonder Woman—but I didn’t want to be a 5-year-old running around in, like, a bikini.”

How she got the part in Suicide Squad: “I met the director, David Ayer, at a hotel in London on a dark and stormy night. He didn’t tell me anything about the movie. Instead, he showed me pictures of these amazing, enlightened, powerful, but very evil women. He spoke to me about addiction and mental illness, which are things I find very, very interesting. The next time I met David was at his house in L.A. He asked me to read a scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I love that play and had acted in it at school when I was 17, so I was excited. Somehow, when we were doing the scene, I became livid. I hadn’t felt rage like that in years. And then I got the part! There still wasn’t a script, but David asked me to go and try and find a forest and, if it was a full moon, get naked and walk through the woods with my feet in the mud, which I did. There wasn’t a full moon, but I howled like a wolf. It would have been really funny if someone had seen me.”

Research for Paper Towns: “Growing up in England, I thought everything I saw in American films was fake. I didn’t think New York was a real place! So it was the same with high schools. When we made the movie, I actually got a locker and popped into classes at a real high school. Last year at CinemaCon, I received an award for Paper Towns, which was funny because the movie hadn’t come out yet. I said, “None of you have actually seen me act, but thank you for trusting that I can.”

She’s dark: “I like anything intense. When I was a child, I was obsessed with blood and death. This sounds really dark, but my earliest memory is of cutting myself. I was pretending to shave like my dad. One time, I covered my face in shaving foam, and I got his razor and ran it along the bottom of my finger and nearly cut it off. Do you want to see the scar? It’s barely visible now. But I like knowing that it’s there.”

[From W Magazine]

There’s a lot to unpack. First of all, I wish she had said a bit more about cutting herself, meaning she should have and could have given that a better context instead of saying she was “obsessed with blood and death.” Cutting can be a serious disorder and it’s important to discuss the psychology of cutting, and give it a proper context. I worry that she’s dismissing how serious it is. As for thinking everything in American films was fake… really? She didn’t know that New York was a place that really existed? That seems very sheltered. And as for the director telling her to walk naked through a forest… that seems like an inappropriate suggestion, right?

Photos courtesy of Mario Sorrenti/W Magazine.