"Barbie" star Margot Robbie on being a "thrill seeker"

hey Barbie yeah can I come to your house tonight sure sure I don't have anything big planned just a giant blowout party with all the Barbies and planned choreography and a bespoke song you should stop by so cool yeah yeah it's Sunday morning on CBS and here again is morocca that's two-time Oscar nominee Margot Robbie as the iconic doll Barbie you might say that like Barbie Robbie herself is adaptable to pretty much any role and much more than just a pretty face Tracy Smith has one of our Sunday best what's it like walking around here now I love it I just have so I remember when shooting up there I remember I did all my dance lessons around there I it was so surreal being actor producer Margot Robbie says a studio lot is one of her favorite places on Earth it's so exciting there is nowhere more magical nowhere more fun than a movie set and she should know here we go Barbie day one hi Barbie I can her latest film Barbie is a star-studded summer spectacular that's being hailed as the film to see if you love Barbie or hater looking good Barbie this Barbie has all the accessories the Retro Dream House the pink car and of course Ken played to the hilt by Ryan Gosling I thought I might stay over tonight why because we're a girlfriend boyfriend [Music] I'm actually not sure just looking at Margot Robbie you might not think the role was much of a stretch but it's never easy to play a legend either living dead or plastic what do I have to do you have to go to the real world you can go back to your regular life or you can know the truth about the universe the choice is now yours the first one the high heel you have to want to know okay do it again it seems like you're all about taking risks yeah I like taking risks ILO can I say I am a thrill seeker it doesn't scare the out of me I normally don't really go for it [Music] and in Barbie Robbie sometimes in Risky territory especially for a tour think about dying her character and her look is about a million miles from her previous role in last year's Babylon where she played a young actress with boundless Talent like the ability to cry her heart out on command cut hiya I'm Nelly Leroy should we go on again okay so let's talk about this crying IQ thing you can really do that yes I did 300 and something episodes on a soap so I had a fair share of practice Crying On Cue how I don't know maybe I think it's like a muscle I could say to a director do you want it on my left eye or right eye stop and tell me the word you want it to drop and what what is going through your head like where does it come from I don't know just honestly it sounds so stupid and and derivative but I just think of something sad but in her life she says there's really not much to be sad about Margot Robbie was raised by a single mom in Queensland Australia through sheer persistence she hit Pay Dirt at age 17 with a role on the popular Aussie soap neighbors cue the tears he promised me who would be harmful tonight she was a perfect fit for the show almost at a very strong Australian accent it was two Australians for Neighbors two Australian for neighbors they had a dialect coach come in to make me sound less Australian for the most Australian TV show what is can you do it what's a two Australian accent I'm very like oh how's it going like just just not nice on the ear and they tried to round it out they're like you're so nasal we need to just round that out so ask yourselves why would Pan Am the best airline in the world promote someone so young but her American accent was good enough to land her a series here Pan Am in 2011. it only lasted one season so she started sending out audition tapes including a Hail Mary pass to a casting agent for a new Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street no part of me considered that I would have my tape would ever be seen by Martin Scorsese and she was as surprised as anyone when she got a bite but when they first told you oh yeah Marty wants to see you your reaction was I was so confused I didn't know who Marty was to be honest I was like they said Marty Marty wants to see you and I was like who is Marty Martin Scorsese and I was like how does he know who I am they're like he watched your tape and I was like Martin School says you watched my audition date no yeah and he wants you to come in and read with Leo and I was like Leo as in Leonardo DiCaprio oh my God my nickname base is already with everyone um yeah it was wild I'm Gonna Be Friends yeah you want to be my friend We're Not Gonna Be Friends her performance opened a lot of eyes and a lot of doors since then she's played everything from the Queen of England Young clever confidence [Music] to a complete psychopath seriously the hell is wrong with you people bad guys is what we do went from breaking glass windows to titlings in 2014 she started her own production company to make female focused films like this one [Applause] [Music] for the movie I Tonya Robbie actually learned to skate like an Olympic figure skater and to fight like well Tanya Harding I out skated him today we also judge on presentation her turn is Tanya got her the first of two Oscar nods but also put her on the map as a producer drawing comparisons to Katharine Hepburn who used her own business sense to help bring the Philadelphia Story to the screen I'm such an Unholy mess of a girl what do you think of that comparison I mean there could be no High Praise for me because I adore Katherine Hepburn um but yes I think I I definitely have that kind I've always been like a bit of a like yeah I've had a business savvy brain and Robbie's success has allowed her to do things even more important to her than movies when you got your first paycheck you had kept a written record of all the money that you'd borrowed from your mom how'd you do your research yeah yeah I have that piece of paper still I kept it um yeah everything I owed my mom I I had it written down she'd take money out of like the house mortgage lend me money so I always knew I was like I gotta pay that back and then one day when I made enough money I just paid that whole mortgage off completely I was like Mom don't even worry about that mortgage anymore it doesn't even exist anymore you paid off her house yeah honestly anyone in my position you'd do that for your mum of course you would Margot of course she's made her mom proud in other ways last year the British Film Academy celebrated her lifetime in film never mind that she's only 33. does it feel kind of weird to get that at such a fairly young age yeah I I at first I was like I don't think I should be getting this like I'm not too young to be getting anything that has the word lifetime in it um but then I was like but I'll take it thanks and with her latest role it's clear that she's earned her own place in Hollywood history I know I'm hard working and blah blah I'm also the luckiest luckiest luckiest yeah person in the world you know every time that I did something I was like oh now it's the top it will never get better than this and then somehow it's just kept getting better and better I'm so so grateful and lucky

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Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023