Margot Robbie attends the New York premiere of “Asteroid City” at Alice Tully Hall on June 13, 2023 in New York City.Photo:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic
Taylor Hill/FilmMagic
Margot Robbiewas a prankster as a child.
“So I got a big kitchen knife and the ketchup and I sprawled out naked on the tiles, covered myself in ketchup, put the kitchen knife, and I waited like 45 minutes for her to find me,” she added.
Margot Robbie attends a “Barbie” fan event at Westfield Sydney on June 30, 2023 in Sydney, Australia.James Gourley/Getty Images
James Gourley/Getty Images
Robbie also shared in the clip that her proclivity for faking injuries as a child didn’t end there.“I also once practiced like a pratfall on the cinema stairs at the shopping center where I’m from and people called an ambulance. So I guess I was a bit of a dramatic child," she joked.
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Robbie grew up in Queensland, Australia, on the country’s northeast coast. Ahead of the release ofBarbie, the star, who first broke out with a role in 2013’sThe Wolf of Wall Street,recently recalled to PEOPLE that she did not often play with Barbie dolls growing up.
“I didn’t personally have any that I can recall,” she said. “My sister did and I remember my cousin did. I would play with my cousin’s, but I wasn’t actually that much of a Barbie girl as a kid.”
Margot Robbie attends the press junket and photo call for “Barbie” at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on June 25, 2023.Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic
Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic
“I was more of a roll-around-in-the-mud kind of gal,” Robbie added, noting that the dolls she did play with were “all weird.”
“I think they were all so janky because they were not well cared for,” she said. “They were all weird Barbies.”
Robbie’s starring role in the new movie turned into a passion project; she brought on the film’s director Greta Gerwig to help bring the movie from the toy box to the big screen.
The actress stars as Barbie among a cast that includes Gosling,Kate McKinnon,Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Ana Cruz Kayne, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya and Dua Lipa.
Barbieis in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
