Margot Robbie Was Not Famous Enough to Get Her Dream Role Before Leonardo DiCaprio’s Movie: “I couldn’t attach enough value to my name”
Margot Robbie is a prominent face in Hollywood, The actor rose to fame with the Academy Award-nominated and Martin Scorsese directed The Wolf Of The Wall Street. She has been associated with projects like- Harley Quinn: Birds Of Prey, Suicide Squad, Babylon, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and Peter Rabbit.
The actor was not a known face in Hollywood before The Wolf Of Wall Street. She was even skeptical about coming into the limelight after playing the role of Naomi Lapagila, the second wife of Jordan Belfort portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie. The actor opened up on her breakthrough role in The Wolf Of Wall Street in an interview with a media house.
Margot Robbie On Being Not So Famous Before The Wolf Of The Wall Street
Margot Robbie rose to fame with the 2013 released Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf Of The Wall Street. After the successful hit, the actor never looked back on her acting career. She was not even sure that she would become a part of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. During an interview with Reuters, the Suicide Squad actor revealed-
“Well, like everything in this industry, it’s rush-rush-rush and then wait. I did the audition tape here in L.A. and obviously never expected Marty [Scorsese] to see it. Then we got a call saying that he wanted to see me read with Leo in New York. I was contracted with Pan Am, a show I was doing, and there was the fact that I didn’t want to do nudity, so people were wondering why I even auditioned. But, then I got cleared at the eleventh hour.”
Margot Robbie became an overnight star after her stint with The Wolf of Wall Street, which was completely different from what she had predicted. She confessed her prediction with respect to the film that nobody would get to know about her no matter how big the movie is. She said-
“I know this sounds silly now, knowing how big the movie became, but at the time I was like, ‘No one’s gonna notice me in this film. It doesn’t matter what I do in this film because they’re gonna focus on Leo and I’ll just slip under the radar.”
The Babylon actor had her eyes set on Z For Zachariah before signing The Wolf Of Wall Street. According to an interview given to Contact Music by the actor-
“I was actually trying to get the role of Ann in Z for Zachariah before I had done Wolf. But because I hadn’t done a large film, I didn’t have enough international value to my name to get the film funded. So another actress was attached who had been in bigger budget, commercial films. Ironically, you have to do the bigger films in order to make a small film. When I first tried to do Z for Zachariah, I couldn’t attach enough value to my name.”
Thanks to her Wolf of Wall Street fame, Margot Robbie came into the spotlight of the world of movies. She has also been associated with the billion-dollar franchise DC.
Margot Robbie On Her Favorite Part From Her Movie Barbie
Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie Starer Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is set to hit the theatres in July 2023. In Barbie’s world, everything is- Pink. Margot Robbie opened the doors of the Barbie world to Architectural Digest. The actor showed all her favorite places starting from the multi-level playhouse’s kitchen to her magical closet. After stepping on the sets of Barbie, Margot Robbie felt that it was “pretty incredible” The actor recalled-
“It was kinda surreal, because I’d spent so long looking at the miniatures and the models and the drawings and the design of what it was gonna look like, and then when you see it firsthand in real life, it’s all there, and it’s really exciting.”
As Pink is Barbie’s color and the theme color of the upcoming movie, the discussion was surrounded around the color and what it exactly meant for every character. The actor said-
“I can’t even tell you the meetings we’ve had about pink. We like, sat with all these different kinds of pinks and we were like, ‘What is the pink? And how do the pinks interact?’ … When I was a little girl, I liked the pinkest, brightest things.”
“There is no water in Barbie Land. There’s no water or fire. There are no elements. How many people avoid walking” in the pool, despite it not actually being filled? Everyone walks around the pool. Even though it’s fake, it’s really beautiful, which is kind of like everything in Barbie Land.”
Margot Robbie’s Barbie is releasing on July 21, 2023, in theatres around the world.
Source: CheatSheet
