On Tuesday in London, Margot Robbie hit the headlines by becoming the youngest performer to receive a special “BAFTA: A Life in Pictures” honor. BAFTA appreciated the 32-year-old multiple Oscar nominee to its London offices in full recognition of her accomplishments since spreading out in 2013 for both About Time and The Wolf of Wall Street, recognizing that she had surfaced in almost 30 movies while also establishing an extremely prosperous career as a producer. The event is typically reserved for performers and moviemakers with decades of work under their belts.
Robbie’s 2017 hit I, Tonya, in which she portrayed disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, which was one of the films highlighted in a discussion that covered the breadth of her career to date, beginning with her early teens on Australian iconic TV drama Neighbors and concluding with her most recent film, Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (for which she’s expected to receive her third Oscar nomination).
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I, Tonya, Robbie’s first significant production under her own LuckyChap Productions company, which she founded in 2014. It also represented a significant turning point, she acknowledged. She told the crowd, “I, Tonya, was the first time I watched a movie and thought, ‘OK, I’m a competent actor.” After coming to this conclusion, she claimed she felt “good enough” and “ready to reach out to my idols,” among them Quentin Tarantino.
This action ultimately led to her landing the role of Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She claimed that collaborating with Tarantino has long been on her “wish list item,” even though she was unaware that he was preparing the film at the time. Ultimately, Robbie was the director’s only option for Tate.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood received criticism after its debut for Robbie’s limited screen time and dialogue, which she said “did not upset” her. She acknowledged that some of the recorded sequences had been removed, but after watching it, she felt the message had been conveyed.
Robbie also said that she imitated a sequence from the movie in which Tate attends the screening of her film at the same theater where Tarantino’s main feature was playing. On a random Tuesday afternoon, she went there to watch it, sitting in essentially the same spot. “I had a similar experience to Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, right down to the ticket seller asking me, “But you’re in the movie,” to which I replied, “I know.”
