Margot Robbie’s favourite moment from her greatest role: “They’re always really fun”
Since the very beginning of her career, Margot Robbie has proved herself to be a creative powerhouse in every sense of the phrase. With a slate of projects in which she is involved as both a producer and performer, her love for the medium has extended across all roles of filmmaking, leading to some of the most celebrated modern masterpieces.
After her explosive breakout role in The Wolf of Wall Street, the actor went from strength to strength, starring in projects that she helped lift off the ground through her production company, Lucky Chap, whether it be Barbie, Bombshell or the upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation. However, one role shines through as an early glimpse of greatness in her career, with the actor describing her favourite moments from the film that took Hollywood by storm.
Despite many knockout performances throughout her career, whether it be her role as Nelly Leroy in Damien Chazelle’s criminally underrated Babylon or her largely silent part in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Quentin Tarantino describing her as the ‘heart’ of the film, there is one that you couold argue truly marked a shift in her career.
After her role in The Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie worked in few films that reached the same dizzying heights of the Scorsese flick, with Robbie deciding that she wanted to do something about it and create more fascinating female roles through founding a production company that focussed on this very feat. The first film to be made through this company was I, Tonya, a biopic about the life of Tonya Harding and the events that shattered her reputation as the best figure skater in the world.
The film was a huge success, with Robbie giving a gritty performance as a very complicated woman in a stunning portrait about success, womanhood and familial relationships. The film does a good job of portraying Tonya as someone we can both sympathise with, but also doesn’t try to make her out as a good person. It’s a vast story that pulls on the perspective of multiple different people, making for a sprawling tale in which the truth keeps slipping away from us.
When describing the film, Robbie expressed her love for one particular scene, saying, “I love watching the wedding scene just because when you shoot a wedding scene — I’ve done a couple of weddings — they’re always really fun because everyone is excited and all dressed up. But I also love watching some of Sebastian [Stan]’s scenes between him and Shawn, played by Paul Walter Hauser. They crack me up when I watch those scenes. Their comedy is so spot-on and specific”.
Stan’s performance is exceptional in the film, with his character being a mixture of a lovable rogue and someone we completely despise, with this cumulating in a strange way during the wedding scene in which we predict that perhaps this won’t be a love story with a happy ending. As well as this, you can’t deny the simple fun of shooting a scene in which everyone is mimicking the best day of someone’s life, leading to an infectiously joyous shooting experience.
