Bold and beautiful, the phrase would be more than enough to describe the ever-shining actress of Hollywood, Margot Robbie. The Australian-born actress has been an active presence in the industry since 2008. Through her remarkable roles that defied the boundaries of feminity, she emerged to be an iconic star.
The 32-year-old fierce female is not only an actress but she is also a producer. Producer of a production company that made it necessary that they dealt with “female stories”. The star talked to WSJ Magazine as the recipient of the entertainment innovator of 2022. In the interview, Robbie opened up about how she changed the trajectory of her acting career.
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Rewriting The Title “The Hottest Blonde Ever”
Margot Robbie established herself in Hollywood through her role in the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” directed by Martin Scorsese in 2013. The movie script description mentioned Robbie as “the hottest blonde ever“. But the star was not ready to fit into this caged title. “I was going to have to show people that I could do something different. I didn’t want to get pigeonholed,” the actor stated. Then she started warding off the roles that tried to confine her in the ‘blonde-bombshell’ image.
“I play a French peasant, and trust me, I looked revolting,” the actress shared with WSJ Magazine. “Then I did Z for Zachariah…and again, I looked revolting. By that time, I thought, I’ve shown people,” Robbie added. The array of roles she handled, from Jane Porter in ‘The Legend of Tarzan‘ to Sharon Tate in ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood‘, the blue-eyed star has established herself as unquestionably fantastic.
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Margot Robbie And LuckyChap Entertainment
“I remember saying, ‘Every time I pick up a script, I want to play the guy,’ ” Robbie recalls. “ ‘Wouldn’t it be so cool if people pick up scripts that we’re making and always wanted to play the female role?’ ”the celebrity asked. Margot Robbie co-founded her production company when she was 24. The ‘Harley Quinn: Birds Of Prey‘ actress had teamed up with assistant directors Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley (now Robbie’s husband) and her childhood friend Sophie Kerr in making the production company LuckyChap Entertainment a reality.
The company was to “make female stories“, involving female stories or female storytellers. The venture that took wings “on a kitchen bench in London” went on to make some of the best movies like ‘I, Tonya’, ‘Promising Young Woman‘, and ‘Terminal‘. Producing their first film ‘I, Tonya‘ established the company in the movie industry. A compelling and tragic biopic dismissed by others took shape in the hands of LuckyChap. “They [were] like, ‘You can’t make that…. You’ve got 200-something scenes, several locations, it’s period,’ ” says Robbie. “We read it and were like, ‘But it’s just f—ing great; it’s the best script ever, so who cares?’ ”, the producer recalls the company’s successful start.
