Margot Robbie Interview – Blonde Ambition

Margot Robbie, at just 33, worries she may be on a downward career trajectory. The evidence, of course, suggests otherwise, with the Barbie movie propelling the Aussie actress back into the box office elite.

It’s natural for anyone, in any walk of life, to feel career anxiety and perhaps a sense of pessimism over their ability to perform.

When this is someone close to us or, worse still, ourselves, we accept the reality. We are, after all, just human, right?

Yet when the person is someone at the top table of the entertainment elite, we are maybe more surprised. How can someone who has everything feel that they might soon have nothing?

“The truth is most actors need constant proof or reassurance that they’ve still got it – whatever ‘it’ is,” begins the brilliant Margot Robbie.

“I am no different on that front. I need to keep taking chances, because standing still with the same project or the same concept is, in fact, going backwards, and I have already felt in certain moments that my career is at risk of a downward trajectory.

“It’s fair to say I will do absolutely anything to avoid that from happening.”

Her plan is working. For 2018 biopic-mockumentary I, Tonya – where she played the role of the film’s central character, American figure skater Tonya Harding – Robbie received nominations from the Academy Awards, BAFTA, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild.

The same four also nominated her two years for their Best Actress in a Supporting Role category for Bombshell.

The Queensland-born actress has been married to Tom Ackersley since 2016, and both helped co-found production company LuckyChap Entertainment, which is behind this year’s megawatt-smile release, Barbie.

First introduced in 1959, Barbie has lived through and impacted most generations, continuing to sell globally to a fervent market of fans. At age 64 (technically), it was probably about time someone put the iconic doll on the big screen, and Robbie – along with director Greta Gerwig – was determined to be the first to succeed with a big-movie version.

“I think it’s every girl’s dream to be Barbie,” she says excitedly. “It’s also every adult’s dream to make a girl’s dream come true, so it was a very special project. Barbie has been with so many girls growing up and we know just how vital it was that we got this right.”

And get it right, Margot Robbie continues to do. With so many scene-stealing roles in the likes of Suicide Squad, The Wolf of Wall Street and Birds of Prey, it may not be accurate to say Barbie will be the actress’s most profitable venture yet; but in terms of being the most defining, perhaps…