There is a before and after in the career and life of Margot Robbie, the Australian actress who turns 30 today, known among other things for the role of Harley Quinn, Joker’s crazy girlfriend in Suicide Squad: is a scene from the film Wolf of Wall Street (2013) where he plays the wife of the protagonist, Leonardo DiCaprio. Sitting on the ground with a very short pink dress, she wants to make her husband pay for his shortcomings: even if you have not seen the film, it is unlikely that you did not come across the image of Robbie who drives DiCaprio away by planting a very high heel in front of him. It was the moment when Margot Robbie stopped being a pretty and promising blonde actress and nailed herself in the collective male desire, as he wrote Vogue.
Robbie grew up on an Australian farm together with two brothers, a sister and a separate mother. At 16 she studied acting and did three jobs to maintain herself (in a bar, in a fast food restaurant and to do cleaning), at 17 she moved to Melbourne to start her acting career, appearing in advertising and TV series. In 2008, while snowboarding in Canada, he received an offer to star in Neighbours, an Australian soap opera of a certain fame, where he transformed his character from secondary to central before abandoning him, in 2010, to move to Hollywood.
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There she was chosen for the role of the protagonist – a somewhat naive doll – of the TV series Pan Am, where there was also Cristina Ricci, with whom she then shared the apartment. Then Martin Scorsese arrived with Wolf of Wall Street: Robbie did not miss the opportunity of life and showed everyone not only her attractiveness but also her value as an actress. «She is the best sexy blonde discovered by Scorsese since Cathy Moriarty in Wild bull», he wrote her criticism Sasha Stone. “Robbie is fun and tough and is the soul of all the scenes in which he appears.” On BuzzFeed, Anne Helen Petersen he defined it, for that role, «a social climber, a pin-up dressed up as a parvenue; remember Lara Turner and even Marilyn Monroe. “
Since then Robbie has received one positive review after another, awards and new jobs: Jane Porter has been in The Legend of Tarzan (for which he refused the part of Penelope Lanier in A Bigger Splash by Luca Guadagnino, who went to Dakota Johnson); the protagonist, together with Will Smith, of Focus – Nothing is as it seems; she became Harley Quinn (who plays in all the films from DC Comics) using as little a stuntwoman as possible and doing everything herself; a Fox News presenter in Bombshell – The voice of the scandal, which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and Sharon Tate in Once upon a time in … Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino. She also played herself in the film The big bet, where he explains subprime mortgages by drinking Dom Perignon aged 20 years.
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The variety of roles is also due to Robbie, who immediately afterwards Wolf of Wall Street it had been flooded with proposals for all equal parts. She refused them, managing not to get stuck in an easy successful role, and revealing, she writes BuzzFeed, what she really was: “a girl who worked hard and who used her beauty only to make the big leap”. His performance was always surprising – Paul Dini, the inventor of Harley Quinn, called his interpretation “perfect” – and often the best aspect of the films he had chosen. In 2014 Robbie founded his production house, LuckyChap Entertainment: “I didn’t want to have to choose another screenplay where I was his wife or girlfriend, a simple catalyst for an all-male story,” as he explained to Harper’s Bazaar. Thus came the second turning point in his career.
LuckyChap Entertainment started out producing Tonya, the autobiographical film on the history of the figure skater Tonya Harding, played by Robbie herself: purposely made ugly and tucked into hideous Nineties clothes, including padded trousers to enlarge her legs. She was nominated for an Oscar and the Golden Globe for best leading actress.
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It has since produced Birds of Prey, released at the beginning of the year and focused on the figure of Harley Quinn while Joker remains in the background; the tv series Dollface, distributed on Hulu, on a girl left by her boyfriend who returns to live with her friends; the film Promising Young Woman, with Carey Mulligan seeking revenge after a rape; Greta Gerwig’s film on Barbie, which has yet to come out and which will be played by Robbie herself; a forthcoming adaptation from the book My year of rest and oblivion by Ottessa Moshfegh, one of the successes of 2018. The production company is working on many other projects that put women at the center: both the protagonists, not stereotyped of the stories, that the directors and the screenwriters who tell them.
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In recent years, the way Robbie has been portrayed in the press has also changed: newspapers no longer exalt only her beauty but say that she works 13 hours a day to release her films. The photographs no longer portray her in sexy poses and in swimsuitbut half-length and in full: “I want people to see me as an actress: I’m not a model.”
In 2018 the magazine Variety He called her one of the 10 film producers to keep an eye on, in 2019 Vogue he dedicated a profile to her, giving great space to his work as a director, accompanied by a video shot at LuckyChap Entertainment and last January Variety he dedicated the cover to her, calling her “actress-producer” and claiming that this is her moment.
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