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Margot Robbieknows when she felt like she’d made it.
The Life in Pictures event honored 32-year-old Robbie’s near-30 film acting credits and her successful endeavors as a producer over the last decade.
The actress' first major producing credit came on her 2017 filmI, Tonya. Robbie told the event’s audience that the film marked “the first time I watched a movie and went, ‘OK, I’m a good actor.’ "
After succeeding in her portrayal of figure skaterTonya Harding— Robbie received a Best Actress nomination at the90th Academy Awards— the actress said that she then felt she was “good enough” to “reach out to my idols,” including writer-directorQuentin Tarantino, according toTHR.
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Robbie said that contacting Tarantino, 59, ultimately led her to her role asSharon Tatein 2019’sOnce Upon a Time… In Hollywoodand that working with the director was “a bucket list thing for me.”
Though Tarantino’s 2019 movie received some criticism for Robbie’scomparative lack of screen timeto that ofLeonardo DiCaprioandBrad Pitt’s characters, Robbie said Tuesday that the smaller role “did not bother her” and that she “thought we got across what we wanted to get across” when she watched the movie.
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The actress also shared that she re-created a scene from the movie in her real life when she went to the same Los Angeles movie theater to watchOnce Upon a Time… In Hollywoodthat was featured in the film, when Sharon Tate watches her 1968 movieThe Wrecking Crew.
“I just went there and watched it on a random Tuesday afternoon and sat in pretty much the same seat,” Robbie said, adding that she “had pretty much the same experience [as Tate in the movie].”
“Even down to the fact that the person I bought the ticket off was like, ‘but you’re in the movie,’ and I was like, ‘I know’, " Robbie said of the experience.
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Robbie said that the employee who sold her a ticket at the time even asked for a photo, just as the employee who Tate encounters in the movie asks for as well.
“I was like, ‘We’re practically doing the scene from the film!’ " she told the London audience, perTHR.
At the BAFTA Life in Pictures event in London, Robbie also admitted that shedid not know the definition of sexual harassmentbefore she took her rolein 2019’sBombshell. Robbie said that she took the part to help her better understand it.
“I realized that I — as a person with an established position in the industry, financially set up and self-sufficient — I didn’t know the definition of sexual harassment, and that’s shocking,” she told the audience, according toVariety.
Robbie also said it “horrified” her that she knew so little about the topic, andBombshelltaught her that sexual harassment and bad behaviors truly “flourishes in the grey area.”
“Roger Ailes or Harvey Weinstein, they take advantage of the area,” theBarbieactressadded. “The situation isn’t black and white.”
source: people.com
