Margot Robbie

17 Stars Who Went to Extreme Lengths for Movie Roles

August 14, 2018

Margot Robbie was nearly unrecognizable as Tonya Harding in 2017’s I, Tonya, but not just because on-set makeup artists transformed her with prosthetics, makeup, and a few very ’80s wigs. She also trained to look like one of the world’s former best skaters on the ice: Robbie actually skated for several hours a day, several days a week for five months (although she still couldn’t land the coveted triple axel, which is understandable). Robbie is far from the only actor to go to extreme lengths to prepare for a movie role in recent years; check out the list, including Christian Bale, Jamie Dornan, and more.

Barely Ther Dress / Charlize Theron wows in revealing black Dior dress at premiere of Bombshell

Charlize Theron wows in a black Dior dress as she promotes her new film 'Bombshell'

BARELY THER DRESS 

Charlize Theron wows in revealing black Dior dress at premiere of Bombshell

• Jake Harrison

• 12 Dec 2019, 1:23
• Updated: 12 Dec 2019, 1:24

CHARLIZE Theron looks an Atomic Blonde again as she steps out for a movie premiere in Los Angeles.

The American actress, 44, donned a racy-black Dior dress as she joined her co-stars, Nicole Kidman, 52, and Margot Robbie, 29, at the Bombshell US premiere.

The trio of leading ladies were all dressed to the nines at the event of the movie, which focuses on the sexual harassment claims against former Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, 77.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood review / Uneven ode to a lost era

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood review – uneven ode to a lost era

The director’s love letter to 1960s Hollywood, where all women are stereotypes and white men the real victims, disturbs and dazzles in equal measure

‘More than a buddy, less than a wife’: Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Photograph: Andrew Cooper/AP

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t’s hardly surprising that this, perhaps the most “Tarantino-esque” of all Quentin Tarantino’s movies to date, is a love letter to Hollywood. Who has been more vocal about his passion for the movies, in all their glorious (and inglourious) variety, than Tarantino? And who has been more promiscuous with his affections, flirting with everything from grindhouse and exploitation flicks to martial arts, westerns and second world war adventures?

Margaret Quallery and Brad Pitt

But cinema is a notoriously fickle mistress. And Tarantino is a man who clearly relishes the concept of revenge. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a film that is as much about the movie industry as it is about the Manson family crimes that rocked it, is a work of infatuation, certainly. But if it’s a love letter, it’s the kind tinged with the grasping anguish and stab of bitterness that comes from knowing that the object of affection is almost certainly eyeing up a new favourite.Success in Hollywood comes with built-in obsolescence. It’s an industry with a vampiric appetite for fresh blood. Actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio, signposting the character’s vulnerability with a slight stutter) knows this, but that doesn’t make it any easier to swallow. Formerly the lead in a wild west vigilante TV series, by 1969 Rick has already started the slow slide into bad guy bit-parts and bourbon bloat. As a guest on new shows, he allows himself to be bested each episode by the actors who are positioned as his replacements. Wet-eyed with self-pity after a straight-talking producer lays out a road map for his irrelevance, Rick hides behind the sunglasses of his confidant and former stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Their friendship is a constant in an uncertain world. Their fates are linked: “More than a buddy, less than a wife,” is how the film’s narration puts it.

That fear of no longer being current, no longer getting the calls is something that infects everyone who works in the movie industry to some degree or another. And you suspect that Tarantino himself is not immune to it. A scene in which an awestruck child whispers to Rick: “That was the best acting I have ever seen” is milked for manly tears. Meanwhile, young people with a less reverent approach to their elders are dealt with swiftly and efficiently, with the kind of sound design that emphasises the crunch of righteous fist into puny, snickering hippy jaws.

‘Depth and subtlety’: Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Photograph: AP

This is a film set in a stunningly evoked Hollywood past. It can also be read as a commentary on Hollywood present. It’s a present that has skewed dramatically over the past couple of years, in which the balance of power has started to shift. And an industry that has started to hold itself to account. With that in mind, Tarantino’s decision to engineer audience support and sympathy for a character whose career has stalled because of allegations of violence against a woman feels like a deliberate provocation and a petulant dig at the #MeToo movement.

It doesn’t help that the female characters tend towards the schematic and stereotypical. Through sheer force of charm, Margot Robbie invests Sharon Tate, Rick Dalton’s Cielo Drive neighbour, with more depth and subtlety than the gilded, angelic ideal that is sketched on the page. With two notable exceptions – Margaret Qualley’s star-making skittish Manson girl and Julia Butters’s precocious child actor – the majority of the other female characters fall into the categories of either shrews or witches.

It’s this – the positioning of middle-aged white males as the real victims here, goddammit – that rankles. Together with a troubling ending that, at the director’s request, can’t be discussed, it makes the indulgences less easy to forgive. And there are many indulgences: the baggy first hour; the unwieldy two-tier flashback that sets up Cliff’s backstory; the jarring scene featuring Damian Lewis as a polyester version of Steve McQueen; the cheap shot at Bruce Lee.

But, equally, there is much here that represents a film-maker at the top of his game. The delight he takes in the details that anchor the story in time and place: who else but Tarantino would include entire montages dedicated to vintage fonts? The heart-tugging music choices; the limber camerawork and tawny nostalgic warmth of Robert Richardson’s cinematography; every last juicy frame set at the Manson family hideout at the Spahn Movie Ranch. It’s a film that could only have been made by one man. Tarantino’s fear of replacement, the subtext of some of the more uneven passages in the film, is, for the moment, unfounded.

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Will Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn be the first superhero of the #MeToo era?

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Will Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn be the first superhero of the #MeToo era?

The character’s depiction in Suicide Squad left a bad taste – but with her own film on the way, DC has the perfect chance to redress the balance

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he art of franchise course correction is an onerous one. Star Wars creator George Lucas did his best to make amends for the horrors of Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace by virtually eliminating the bumbling Gungan from Attack of the Clones – bar a brief appearance in which the hapless stalk-eyed goon rubber-stamps the rise of the evil Empire. This might have worked if Lucas hadn’t introduced whining teenager Anakin Skywalker in the same movie, as well as ruining Yoda by recreating him in CGI.

Margot Robbie / It was the least romantic thing

'It was the least romantic thing': 

Margot Robbie opens up 

about filming steamy sex scenes 

with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio 

for  The Wolf Of Wall Street 

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:03 GMT, 19 December 2013 | UPDATED: 22:52 GMT, 13 January 2014

They share some of the most raunchiest sex scenes in film to date in their upcoming black comedy, The Wolf Of Wall Street.

But blonde bombshell Margot Robbie admits that shooting the racy scenes with Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio was the 'least romantic thing'.

The 23-year-old actress plays blonde beauty Noami Lapaglia in the upcoming Martin Scorcese movie, who gets caught up in a steamy moment with the 39-year-old hunk's alter-ego, Jordan Belfort, but she insists filming it wasn't as scandalous as it seems. 

Not as scandalous as it seems: 

Margot Robbie says filming sex scenes 

with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street 

was the 'least romantic thing' 

She said: 'The whole thing ended up being quite comical.'

The kinky scene involves the pair in bed together while there's a barking dog standing at the end of the frame, nipping at DiCaprio's feet, but Margot says shooting didn't go according to plan, and the whole room ended up smelling like dog food.

Speaking to the New York Post, she explained: 'We [had to] entice this dog to jump in the bed and bite at Leo's feet . . . so we had dog trainers at the end of the bed [with] dog treats . . . we're putting chicken liver on Leo's toes. We're in a small room, it's hot, it's sweaty, it smells like dog food.'

A mouth full of stiletto: One scene sees Margot and Leo caught up in a kinky moment in a baby's nursery

Meanwhile, Leonardo recently shot down reports that he was using a body double for the naked scenes.

He said earlier this week: 'It's all me, pal.

'Look, when you do a character like this, you have to go all out. You can't pull any punches. You have to swing for the fences. Hopefully people enjoy it.'

Stunning: Margot was seen arriving to appear on Good Morning America in New York on Thursday 

Monochrome chic: The actress looked stylish in a black and white peplum style top and a pair of tight black trousers

Flawless: The young star had her blonde locks in a razor straight style and wore minimal makeup on her flawless complexion

The Wolf Of Wall Street is based on the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort, and stars Leonardo as the protagonist.

Slated as a black comedy, it tells the story of Belfort as he becomes involved, but refuses to cooperate, in a securities fraud case which involves corruption in Wall Street and the world of corporate banking.

The movie has been nominated for two Golden Globes in the Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy and Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy categories.

Quick change: The actress later changed into a black and red wool dress for yet another promotional appearance 

Classic: The blonde beauty kept warm in a chic black wool coat 

It hits cinemas in the US on December 25 and the UK on January 17.

Leonardo and Margot were thought to have struck up a romantic relationship during filming, but the pair have both neither confirmed or denied it.

Meanwhile, the former Neighbours star recently made headlines after photographs of her and her Focus co-star, Will Smith, emerged, showing the pair getting cosy in a photo booth.

Busy girl: The 23-year-old Australian actress was spotted leaving The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York on Wednesday night 

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The actress posed with co-star Jonah Hill at a luncheon and Q&A for the film

In the pictures, published in Star magazine, Margot was seen lifting up her top to reveal her lacy white bra, as Will pulled up his own shirt, pressing his bare chest against her back.

However, Margot later took to Twitter to deny any inappropriate behaviour between herself and her co-star and insisted the pair were ‘just goofing around’.

She wrote: ‘Been working non-stop, just catching my breath. There's absolutely no truth to the ridiculous rumor in Star mag...

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Reunited: Margot, Leo, Jonah and director Martin Scorsese also answered questions at a screening of the movie the same day  

‘...It's disappointing that goofing around on set could be taken so out of context (sic).’

Will plays a professional grifter in Focus, who gets romantically involved with Margot's character after taking her under his wing.

Despite Margot’s insistence that the pair are merely friends, it was also later reported that the Independence Day actor ‘carried’ his co-star back to his trailer after taking the photos.

On the promotional trail: Margot and Leo both attended The Wolf Of Wall Street premiere on Tuesday night in New York City 

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Margot Robbie / Sex scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio

Margot Robbie: Sex scenes with Leo ‘the least romantic thing’

By Page Six Team

December 18, 2013 | 11:43pm

Well, we know what President Obama will have in his DVD player this week.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese reportedly headed to the White House on Wednesday to personally deliver the Commander in Chief a screener of “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Before heading to DC, DiCaprio was at a Four Seasons restaurant lunch for the film with the rest of the cast — including Margot Robbie, who dished to us that her steamy sex scenes with Leo on-screen were actually “the least romantic thing.”

“The whole thing ended up being quite comical,” said Robbie, whose love scene with Leo involves a barking dog on their bed.

“We [had to] entice this dog to jump in the bed and bite at Leo’s feet . . . so we had dog trainers at the end of the bed [with] dog treats . . . we’re putting chicken liver on Leo’s toes. We’re in a small room, it’s hot, it’s sweaty, it smells like dog food.”

Leo and his “Wolf” pack had been at a premiere of the film the night before at the Ziegfeld, and he showed up at a Roseland Ballroom after-party with a posse of pals including Orlando Bloom, Tobey Maguire, Lukas Haas, Kevin Connolly and Jonah Hill. They then continued to party at Tao Downtown before capping off the night at 1Oak.

Reps for the White House, DiCaprio and Scorsese didn’t get back to us about the DC visit.