Margot Robbie’s ‘Spooky’ Timing Led To Her In Sharon Tate Role

For so long as she had been appearing, relationship again to her time on the Australian cleaning soap opera Neighbours, Margot Robbie wished to be in a Quentin Tarantino film. But she wanted to really feel like she was a adequate actor to affix the ranks of Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. That confidence got here after she watched the primary reduce of I, Tonya, a efficiency that might result in an Oscar nomination (she ought to have been nominated for The Wolf of Wall Street, too, however alas). “So I wrote him,” the actress informed Vogue, “and mentioned, ‘I adore your films, and I would love to work with you in some capacity. Or any capacity.’ It labored:

When Tarantino acquired Robbie’s letter, he’d just lately completed the script for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a romp via the film trade of the late 1960s. Friends who’d learn the script had already requested if he’d be casting Robbie within the position of Sharon Tate, the actress, spouse of Roman Polanski, and sufferer of the Manson murders. Then Robbie’s letter arrived. The timing was spooky sufficient that Tarantino thought they need to meet. (Via)

They met at his home, and Robbie obtained the half. “Margot looks like Sharon Tate,” Tarantino mentioned about why he solid her. “And she can convey Sharon’s innocence and purity — those qualities are integral to the story” (even when Sharon Tate doesn’t have a lot to say within the film itself). Robbie’s subsequent high-profile position after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which opens on July 26, is Birds of Prey, the Harley Quinn spin-off which she calls “definitely less male gaze-y” than Suicide Squad. Erin Benach, the movie’s costume designer, defined the distinction between the 2 tasks: “That’s what happens when you have a female producer, director, writer.” Birds of Prey‘s producer? Margot Robbie.

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is scheduled to come back out February 7, 2020.

(Via Vogue)