It Wasn't A Blockbuster, But Margot Robbie Says This Was Her Best Role
After delivering a breakout performance opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, Margot Robbie hasn’t slowed down one bit. In the years that adopted, the Australian actress took on a various slate of initiatives, from portraying Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots to being DC’s Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey and The Suicide Squad to enjoying the overdue actress Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
And whilst these films turned out to be giant commercial successes, these aren’t the flicks that Robbie is most proud of thus far.
Margot Robbie Thinks I, Tonya Was Her Best Work
When I, Tonya came alongside, Robbie was somewhat new in Hollywood. Sure, by means of then, she’d already carried out The Wolf of Wall Street or even made a cameo in Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning film, The Big Short.
Fans additionally couldn’t get sufficient of her as Harley Quinn in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. But regardless of some of these, Robbie was feeling undecided about how far she may in point of fact take her profession. I, Tonya helped forged the ones doubts apart.
“I, Tonya was the first time I watched a film and went 'Okay, I'm a good actor,’” Robbie revealed while talking with The Hollywood Reporter while attending BAFTA: A Life in Pictures. The actress also added that working on the movie inspired her to achieve out to Quentin Tarantino.
This later resulted in Robbie getting solid in Once Upon a Time with Hollywood with DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
There Were ‘Concerns’ About The Actress Playing Disgraced Ice Skater Tonya Harding
By the time pre-production on I, Tonya started, Robbie had already made it transparent to Hollywood that she could act. However, I, Tonya producer Bryan Unkeless wasn’t positive if the actress could convincingly play Harding onscreen.
“There have been issues,” he admitted. “Robbie is Australian — can she do the accessory? Can she make the physical transformation?”
That stated, Unkless by no means doubted Robbie’s determination to nail the character onscreen. “There was this intensity in the back of Margot’s eyes,” he recalled. “And once I’d interviewed Tonya, she’d had that same depth when she’d speak about landing the triple axel.”
Once Robbie signed on, she spent much of her time on the ice with choreographer Sarah Kawahara.
“I felt like I lived at the ice skating rink,” the actress once mentioned of making ready for the film. “Every time my alarm would move off at like 5 a.m. I’d be like, ‘I will’t do it once more these days, I’m nonetheless so bruised from the previous day.”
The reality, however, was that Robbie become more than bruised within the process. Hours of intense preparation ended in a herniated disk on the actress’ neck. Robbie most effective learned what was taking place a week into taking pictures when her fingers started to change into numb.
By the time the movie went into most important photography, then again, the actress was able. That stated, Robbie still knew there was no manner she may just pull off Harding’s infamous triple axel and neither may just the doubles they thought to be for the actress. In the top, the film grew to become to visual effects for the triple axel scene.
Meanwhile, Robbie additionally studied as a lot pictures of Harding as conceivable. “I watched for roughly six months every single factor, each bit of skating, every little bit of interview, every documentary, I played it my iPod at night time … I had her face, like, painted at the inside my eyelids and her voice just continuously in my head,” she recalled.
At the similar time, Robbie labored on a specific posture for portraying Harding onscreen.
“I wanted it to feel like the sector was bearing down on her … I sought after her shoulders rounded, her head to be stooped,” the actress defined.
“I sought after her to always be on the defense – and on every occasion she was sitting to be sitting forward, looking ahead to validation, like she was looking ahead to a skating rating.”
I, Tonya Was Also Among The First Films Robbie Produced Herself
Steven Rogers chanced upon Harding’s story when his niece pressured him to observe an ESPN documentary on the ice skater and ice skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan one night time. And just like that, Rogers, who is best known for rom-coms such as Kate & Leopold and P.S. I Love You, was attracted to Harding who essentially lost her career after her then-husband-Jeff Gillooly, orchestrated an attack against Kerrigan off the ice.
“The factor that afflicted me is that [Harding was treated] like a punchline via the media,” Rogers mentioned. “It was the first time [the media] cared less about being accurate than about filling the gap, which is now an endemic.”
He went on to trace Harding and even spoke with Gillooly as well. And when the script was completed, Rogers sent it to quite a lot of producers, including indie manufacturing corporations. That’s how I, Tonya landed on Robbie’s radar.
By then, the actress had formed her very own production house, LuckyChap Entertainment, with then-boyfriend Tom Ackerley (they've since gotten married). And when the couple saw the script, it piqued their curiosity.
“We read it and went down a Wikipedia hole,” Ackerley recalled. “It was simply such a loopy story with such wonderful characters.”
In generating the film, Robbie additionally knew they were making a gamble. “Something like I, Tonya. A lot of people probably learn that script and went, ‘That can’t be made,’” the actress defined years later. “We have been younger and dumb sufficient to head, ‘Let’s make that.’”
And when the film was a important hit or even earned Robbie her first Oscar nod, it helped the actress get a lot of other initiatives greenlit. Since then, her company had long past on to provide Birds of Prey, as well as the Emmy-nominated Netflix sequence Maid, and the Hulu comedy sequence Dollface.
Robbie also serves as a producer in Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated live-action Barbie movie. The actress performs the iconic Mattel character.
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