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THE INTERVIEW

“As much as I'd only like to concentrate on
the creative side of acting, the whole business
in general is just that - a business - and you
have to do your homework if you want to be
successful.”

- Margot Robbie

t the end of her first Neighbours’ contract, she did not real-life trader who is still making headlines. It was Robbie’s big
sign the renewal that was offered, instead decided it was opportunity, and she gave it all she had, including perfecting a highly-
time to take her chances in the U.S. Her rise to worldwide praised Brooklyn accent. The 2013 film earned a worldwide gross of
A stardom quickly began when she was cast in the $392 million, Scorsese’s highest grossing film. It was nominated for five
short-lived 2011 series Pan Am. Robbie made her worldwide big screen Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
debut in the British film, About Time, but came into her own when she
impressed Leonardo DiCaprio and the director, Martin Scorsese, during Robbie believes success lies in doing your homework and being
her audition for The Wolf of Wall Street. During the audition, embracing prepared. Her phenomenal performance in Suicide Squad came from
the role, in one of those life-changing moments, she hit DiCaprio, her commitment and allegiance to the role, which she prepared for both
something which was not in the script, but was what Robbie felt the physically, and mentally. For Suicide Squad, she learned how to hold
character needed to do. her breath for long periods of time, performed many of her own stunts,
and studied psychiatric journals to try and understand the off-the-wall
Her gut feeling was right on, and she was cast in her breakthrough role Quinn character and her relationship to Jared Leto’s characterization of
as Naomi Belfort, the wife of the film’s protagonist Jordan Belfort, the the Joker.

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