Margot Robbie Interview

In the movie biz, the Paramount lot in Los Angeles has always been sacred ground: a crossroads for stars of all sizes, and it still is. Two-time Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie says it's a place she never gets tired of. It was so surreal being on the Paramount lot, she said. It's so exciting. There is nowhere more magical, nowhere more fun than a movie set.

And she should know. Her new film, Babylon (from CBS' parent company, Paramount), is a picture made the way they used to make 'em, and maybe, never will again. Director Damien Chazelle takes us on a three-hour-plus deep-dive into the chaotic underbelly of 1920s Hollywood, an epic story told in beautiful and sometimes lurid detail, with Robbie's character running off the rails in a place where the parties never seemed to end.

Yeah, I like taking risks, ' said Robbie. What can I say? I'm a thrill seeker. if it doesn't scare the s**t outta me, I normally don't really go for it.

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And in Babylon, there was a lot to be scared of. Her character, the young actress Nellie LaRoy, is a hungry outsider who turns out to be talented beyond anyone's expectations, with powers like the ability to cry her heart out on command.

I don't know. I think it's, like, a muscle. I could say to a director, 'Do you want it on my left eye or right eye? And tell me the word you want it to drop, ' and they'll say that.

Margot Robbie was raised by a single mom in Queensland, Australia. Through sheer persistence, she hit paydirt at age 17 with a role on the popular Aussie soap Neighbours. Cue the tears!

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Australian TV show ever. Like, just not nice on the ear! And they tried to round it out. They're like, 'You're so nasal. We need to just round that out.'

But her American accent was good enough to land her a series here, Pan Am, in 2011. It only lasted one season, so she started sending out audition tapes, including a Hail-Mary pass to a casting agent for a new Martin Scorsese film. The Wolf of Wall Street. Robbie said, No part of me considered that my tape would ever be seen by Martin Scorsese.

And she was as surprised as anyone when she got a bite. When she was first told, Marty wants to see you, she said, I was so confused. I didn't know who 'Marty' was, to be honest. And I was, like, 'Who is Marty?' They're like, 'Martin Scorsese.' And I was, like, 'How does

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Audition tape?' And they're like, 'Yeah, and he wants you to come in and read with Leo.' And I was like, '

Her performance opened a lot of eyes, and a lot of doors. Since then, she's played everything from the Queen of England (in Mary, Queen of Scots), to a real doll (in the upcoming Barbie), to a complete psychopath (Harley Quinn, in Suicide Squad).

In 2014 she started her own production company to make female-focused films, like I, Tonya. Robbie actually learned to skate like an Olympic figure skater, and to fight like Tonya Harding.

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Her turn as Tonya got her the first of two Oscar nods, but also put her on the map as a producer, drawing comparisons to Katharine Hepburn, who'd used her own business sense to help bring The Philadelphia Story to the screen.

There could be no higher praise for me, she replied, because I adore Katharine Hepburn. But yes, I think I've always … had a business-savvy brain.

Smith asked, When you first got your first paycheck, you had kept a written record of all the money that you'd borrowed from your mom?

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God, you do your research! Robbie said. Yeah. I have that piece of paper still. I kept it. Yeah, everything I owed my mom, I had it written down. She'd take money out of like, the house mortgage, lend me money. So, I always knew, I was like, 'Oh, gotta pay that back.' And then one day when I made enough money, I just paid that whole mortgage off completely. I was, like, 'Mom, don't even worry about that mortgage anymore. It doesn't even exist anymore.'

She's made her mom proud in other ways: this year the British Film Academy celebrated her lifetime in film. Never mind that she's only 32. At first, I was like, 'I don't think I should be getting this. Like, aren't I too young to be getting anything that has the word 'lifetime' in it?' But then I was like, 'But I'll take it. Thanks!'

I know I'm hardworking and blah, blah, blah, but I'm also the luckiest, luckiest, luckiest, yeah, person in the world, she said. Every time that I did something, I was, like, 'Ugh, now it's the top, it will never get better than this.' And then, somehow it's just kept getting better and better. I'm so, so grateful and lucky.is basically all we’ve been talking about since it was announced, and she got us even more excited in her interview with Vogue US.

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In the chat, she opens up about everything from what compelled her to star in the film, to how she feels about

Being sexy ('She’s a plastic doll. She doesn’t have organs. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs. If she doesn’t have reproductive organs, would she even feel sexual desire? No, I don’t think she could'), but something else that caught our attention was what she’s been doing to keep fit these days.

You may have seen the BTS pics of Margot and co-star Ryan Gosling (who takes on the role of Ken) rollerblading on LA’s Venice boardwalk. Well, apparently Margs likes to rollerblade in her own time, too.

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, Margot asked for the interview to be done while rollerblading, and even owns two pairs of blades - one of which she ‘took the brakes off because I hate to brake.’ Scroll through the

Snaps below until you get to her rocking some floral print rollerblades (and undies) and you’ll see she is clearly very good at it; can anyone else pose like that when rollerblading? Neither.

Which is why she doesn’t like brakes. ‘I never had them on ice skates, so it would mess me up, ’ she explains to

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Who is a ‘really cool Instagram skater’ has since taught her skate-dancing. ‘We were talking about skating. I was like, “Do you want to go on the weekend and teach me some tricks?” And she was like, “Yeah, sure.” So we went and she was kind of teaching me how to dance on my skates, ’ she says.

If you're wondering what skating could do for you, research conducted at the Universitat Konstantx showed that moderate roller skating could increase your heartbeat to 140-160 beats per minute. Pick up the pace and you'll likely top 180 beats per minute. In turn, this’ll strengthen your heart health and improve blood circulation. What’s more, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts, roller skating causes less than 50% of the impact shock to your joints than running does, making it a solid low-impact cardio workout.

Over breakfast, where she ordered avocado toast, grilled halloumi cheese and Australian-style bacon, for which she requested the waiter to ‘crisp it up’. Post-rollerblading, they then headed to her favourite ice cream shop, Salt & Straw. What a day.

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As for cooking, it's not for Margs. ‘In our friendship group in LA and London, all the guys cook, and love cooking, and are really good at it, ’ she says. ‘And none of the girls cook, and we love drinking, and we’re really good at it.’ And when she does give it a go? ‘Everything lights on fire in the kitchen. I’m not even kidding.’ We’ve all been there.

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