She burst onto the scene as a manipulative wife in The Wolf of Wall Street, inspired a million Halloween costumes with her seductive realistic portrayal of Harley Quinn, and then… disappeared. Now she’s hitting the interview circuit once again with a slew of new movies (and tricks) up her sleeve. Welcome back, Margot Robbie, we’re very pleased to see you.
She burst onto the scene as a manipulative wife in The Wolf of Wall Street, inspired a million Halloween costumes with her seductive realistic portrayal of Harley Quinn, and then… disappeared.
Now she’s hitting the interview circuit once again with a slew of new movies (and tricks) up her sleeve. Welcome back, Margot Robbie, we’re very pleased to see you.
Margot Robbie delights in throwing herself into her performances. She once smacked Leonardo DiCaprio in the face while auditioning for The Wolf of Wall Street, revelled in her character Harley Quinn’s wicked behaviour on the set of Suicide Squad, and recently got caught up in a violent argument with co-star Sebastian Stan while shooting I, Tonya, a biopic about the notorious American figure skater Tonya Harding, and how her husband Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian) arranged to have someone break a rival skater’s leg prior to the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships. Margot became so overwrought while filming the scene that she stormed off the set screaming at Sebastian.
“We got so carried away in this scene where we’re having this massive fight, and he slammed my hand against a door and I think I even punched him in the side of the head,” Margot says. “It was such an incredibly intense argument that, for a moment, I forgot I wasn’t Tonya and he wasn’t Jeff and I wasn’t on a film set. Sebastian came running after me and asking me where I was going and I said I was going to the hospital because he had broken my hand in the fight... I forgot I was acting and nothing makes me more exhilarated than when I genuinely forget where I am.”
I, Tonya premiered to rave reviews at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, and is due to be released in December this year. In the meantime, Margot will be appearing in Goodbye Christopher Robin, the biographical drama about acclaimed children’s author and Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne. The story focuses on his relationship with his son, Christopher Robin, who became the inspiration and namesake for the child in the stories and his world of animal creatures. Margot plays his wife Daphne de Sélincourt, who has a complicated relationship with the troubled author, who struggled with PTSD after serving as a Captain in the British Army during WWI.
Tweeted Margot about her experience on the movie: “Had the most magical time shooting this. Trust me, you don’t want to miss it.”
Margot has also recently completed work on Mary Queen of Scots, in which she plays Elizabeth I opposite Soairse Ronan as Mary Stuart. Amidst her busy schedule, the 27-year-old native of Queensland, Australia found the time to get married to English filmmaker Tom Ackerley. They tied the knot in December last year after they began dating in 2014 when they met on the set of Suite Francaise.
Q: You’ve been playing a lot of intense characters lately, particularly in Suicide Squad and now in I, Tonya. Where do you get that strength from?
My mum has been a great example for me. She was a single mother raising my brothers, sister and me by herself, and we didn’t make life easy for her. We were always fighting, and my mum had to be a very strong woman to hold things together. She’s an amazing woman.
