Conversations with Margot Robbie of I, TONYA

good evening everyone my name is Janel Riley I'm an editor at variety I am so thrilled to welcome you to this Q&A with one of my favorite movies of the year well we're in a new year one of my favorite movies of last year I Tania at this point please join me in welcoming the producer and star of the film since her breakthrough performance in the oscar-nominated wolf of wallstreet this is an actress who has just continued to make fascinating choices with movies like focus and Suicide Squad and she was excellent playing Margot Robbie in the big short please welcome Margot Robbie [Applause] thank you so much for being here it occurred to me I meant to say at the top that for your role in I Tania you've been nominated for every award possible I think they've made some up but including the SAG Award did you were you a SAG Award winner for your role in the Big Short oh no they didn't win but were you nominated as part of the ensemble because when you play yourself I don't know I've never even been to the SAG Awards this year will be my first time ever so I didn't hear that big show it was even nominated well good news I mean I remember going to the Oscars that year because I present it and I was like backstage and everyone's like well done and your movie and I'm like I really can't claim that the big shirt is my I did half a day of work like sipping champagne in a bathtub it was that is I wouldn't call it what at all yeah I said to Adam McKay I'm like I've gotten far more credit than I deserve for my part in this film but you actually make economics interesting like that isn't easy to do you fully deserve the credit I have to say I am curious I usually because this is an audience of SAG actors I usually like to ask about how actors got their sag cards but you are not from here the the accent is not justification you're from Australia what was actually your first job in the business when you sort of knew you wanted to be an actor best job in America or Festo just as an actress yeah it was this indie film short on the Gold Coast which is where I'm from in Australia and it never got released or I've never even seen it like it was very very low budget like lower than an indie film but more like a student film sort of thing but it was a thriller sort of thing called I see you do you worry it's not worry but do you expect it to come out any day now I it was a chance to be on a film set no matter how small the set was it was still film set and that was like a dream come true I have to say I actually love the title yeah I mean it's kind of clever I was all about voyeurism and yeah so you're making this sound good no I I haven't seen it so I got to have it it was like I said very very low low low low budget I think we shot in my friend's apartment yes so obviously on to bigger things with I Tanya how did this script find you because were you you you are also a producer on the movie were you looking for things specifically to act in or just produce or both and I read it as a producer initially I was looking for a company was looking for female driven content and heard this script was going around and it Steven the rotor write wrote it on spec so it was available it was an attached to any production house so studio and when I read it I just was fascinated and mind-boggled and I knew immediately that I wanted to play Tanya and produce so I met with Steven the next day and Brian Anka lists who had jumped on board like the day before we did actually and kind of pitched myself to play Tanya and to produce and they agreed you had to put yourself with but was there any sort of audition process or they were they were not stupid and said of course you complete on your part I mean I thought I was gonna have to do a lot of convincing and well it's a very American character and I'm obviously not an American and I actually when I read the script didn't even know it was a true story so I wasn't familiar with the whole thing but I thought you know I might my angle and it was I don't have any preconceived notions about this person that the first the world seems to hate so much and I think that's a better way to play the character and we all saw the project the same way immediately we will shared the same you know passion for the script and concerns about the script you know all that we just the gang kind of got along so quickly it turned into a family very quickly a little team Tanya I was great I mean when these events happen I think you were 2 years old so you can yeah you can be forgiven for not knowing it was real but it was there a point like while reading the script when you started to wonder a couple of times I was like no this copy this can't be real viscom I mean they're just using a mockumentary style sort of framing device throughout that's all this cannot actually of happy and then when I got to the end and it said you know where where they all are now sort of thing I was like oh my god I think this is true and I went online and I found I realized that you know it wasn't just based on a true story like the exact specifics like the moment that Shane stant arteries hit Nancy was running away with the baton in his hand and comes across locked doors and instead of hitting it with the he used his head like even that happened I mean it was I just kept finding more and I was like this is unbelievable it so it's funny that way that I mean I really feel like real life is often crazier than oh yeah films for sure I mean it but obviously it's not a documentary it's literally not a documentary you're allowed to take some creative license but was there one specific thing other than what you just mentioned that you were like this can't be true this can't be true oh my god is true I remember reading the description of Lovano and just like the fur coat and the bird on the shoulder and the I mean everything else like how this rider is so odd and specific and that I saw the footage of I was like just never see and this is something I love the writer Stephen Rogers he he basically told you you had the cast Allison Janney yeah so so Stephen and Allison have known each other for years and years and they went to the Neighborhood Playhouse together in New York and he kept writing roles for Allison and she never got to play them they always gave him too you know someone else and since he wrote this script on spec he kind of had the freedom to stipulate his deal points and he said it's it's Allison Janney for the part of LaVon or it's a no deal and we're like oh well - Sarah I'm will take her and she hadn't actually read the script at that point so no he had kind of made that deal you stipulated that Andy's deal with that actually I've given it to her to read but she obviously as soon as she read it she she loved the character and wanted to play I I mean after going like you wrote this for me yeah she funnily enough didn't question their friendship based on the fact that he wrote that for her she ya know she was excited to play Lavanya at what point did you become interested in producing I mean was it we all know that there's not so much this year but there's generally a dearth of good female roles were you always wanting to produce her was something you sort of felt you know it's burned into no I never thought I wanted to produce because I don't think I fully understood what a producer does I thought it was more of the crunching numbers as opposed to you know and figuring out the financing as opposed to the creative development which half of it is the creative development and I love that side of it and I do love the business side of it - I don't love doing nine our closing calls with bonding agencies but the rest of it I really love and it's it's something honestly a friend had a script and everyone was like it's too weird you can't make it and I was like I think it's great let's make it and so that's how it kind of started and then it kind of spawned into the idea of wanting to create more roles not just just for female people in the industry like female directors writers actors not just me anyone you know it that was kind of the thesis at the company to begin with and that's that's the direction it kind of started going in but no once once I started doing and I also thought there'd be a real conflict of interest between you know when producing and acting in a project I thought well on one hand an actor is gonna want you know the actor in me is gonna want another take and on the other hand the producer in me is gonna say we can't afford overtime so is this gonna you know is this gonna be too much of a conflict onset and it wasn't they actually really go hand in hand I don't know how many people in this room act and produce but I found that it goes hand in hand beautifully and in fact I could kind of recognize potential production issues months in advance because I was looking into it in a more specific way as an actor and vice versa I I was so immersed in the world as a producer like when I walked onto said it wasn't like oh okay this is I guess the house I grew up and it was like I've seen every location that we record I was here when we record theirs I was here when we picked that wallpaper I remember the comments like you know you just it it was so much easier to immerse myself in the world and the character having done the producing side of it having been on board for so many months beforehand we actually have a question from the audience and I you might have sort of addressed this but it's from Harrison don't be shy oh there you are hi once know as a producer on this film what ended up being your favorite part of the filmmaking process from behind the camera I I actually really loved watching the scenes I wasn't in and you know actually do it was a real guilty pleasure watching audition tapes because I obviously have never been able to do that before it felt like I was doing something really naughty by watching them I was like oh I shouldn't be doing this but watching everyone's audition tapes and I mean it's awful because I've done a million audition tapes and you always have this feel like oh gosh what are the people gonna say they're gonna like nitpick me and say Oh what is she wearing or why should she say like that'll you know make fun of me or whatever and now I've been on the other side I'm like no yeah everyone does watch the audition tapes and they're like pretty harsh and it's kind of terrifying but no it was it was great it was exciting to like see someone like pull Walter houses audition tape come through and just be like wow his take on the character was so different to the last one hundred tapes I've just watched and it you know he just made this dialogue he turned it into something else completely and that was so exciting to discover and being on that side of things I yeah i really loved watching the audition tapes so you had a lot of say and not only the director Craig Gillespie your fellow countrymen but the cast yeah yeah no yeah we we were in a really wonderful position where we could genuinely cost the best people for the role it was and I'll find a name find a name you know and the F finances were incredible like that they were like no you know pick the people who were right for the job and that's that gave us the freedom to be like Giuliana Nicholson one of the greatest on like actresses that people don't talk about enough and it's like yeah she would be perfect for this and same thing like Paul's tape coming through and Sebastian Sebastian is tape coming through I was like who is this unknown act I've never seen before this tape is incredible and then I own D beat him and I was like whoa it's the guy in the gossip girl TV show and Marvel movies like are you kidding me he just like was so Jeff I he just totally transformed and yeah we did chemistry rates together special and I and a couple of actors going for Jeff so that whole process is great to kind of like doing audition but knowing our you had the pot was lovely unfortunately you were saddled with Allison Janney who just brought the whole amazing and I was like I've been quoting Allison Jenny one line is my whole life and now I'm like watching her create new Allison Janney one line is it was like yay I get to have a knife thrown at me but again do it again yeah I am curious because you mentioned auditions you've been working in this business for quite a while are you good at a regime I am I get I still I'm terrified like public speaking scares me this actually I'm not scared doing this right now but like the idea of like doing a speech that that scares me od she should get you therapy i mean i guess i guess i get nervous like doing the chemistry rates even when i like i said when i know that I've already got the pot and I still find that nerve-racking yeah I find them really scary did you have any of those nightmare auditions that we hear so much about yes I oh my god I once had a terrible audition once I am it's kind of long story do we have time so I can I think we have done I had I in America obviously the name of medications is different too it is in Australia I had this like really small day surgery thing the day before big audition that I really wanted the role for and I was in so much pain but my friend I was at my friend's house and he'd had just had a root canal and I was like oh got it I just I'm in so much pain but I've got this audition tomorrow he's like oh well here I've got painkillers from the root canal I just had take them you know when you wake up for your audition you'll be fine and I was like okay thank you so much and he's like here take his I was like what is it you said I was percocet and I was like I'm gonna never heard of it it must be like panadol which is like Tylenol you know like so not a big deal and he was like here take two and I was like got it and I when he said take two I thought he meant like here you should take two of them as the dosage but really he meant he'd take two just in case you need to anyways I wake up I'm getting ready for this audition don't get time to eat breakfast on an empty stomach I have two percocets for the first time in uh I'm like driving to the substitution and like halfway there I was like suddenly like oh my god hopefully dating I got like one hand out the window I mean I was off my head and I was like oh great hey I'm feeling great about this audition I was completely like off my head and it was a terrible audition I'm sure but I was trying to do this audition I remember killing up on the couch and the whole thing was terrible and I was going for my driver's test right afterwards to get my American license I was like I I knew I was I was like this is I am NOT okay I cannot do a much driver's test and fortunately my friend worked at Sony which is where I was doing the audition and I like ran to her office and I was like can you give me food or something I think I'm hi I'm not sure but I think I'm hi help me this is one of those situations where I do hope that tape exists somewhere I really wasn't I have no idea what I did in that audition but I didn't get the role or a callback so I'm sure it wasn't good so for preparing for Tonya we have a question from is it Brendan Flannery wants to know how much interaction did you have with Tanja in preparation for the role I purposely didn't meet her until we right before we started shooting because there was such a huge amount of footage online I could kind of study her from afar pretty thoroughly actually very thoroughly and and I did I did that for the you know six months I watched every clip on her just on repaid and listened to her constantly and I made I mapped out the character as if it was a character not based on a real-life person just a fictional character and I made all the decisions based on the information I had and I could study her mannerisms had I liked all that kind of stuff from afar and then in that way I could keep the character and Tania separate in my mind and and I felt I needed to do that I felt if I kind of muddied the waters and knew that it was just too intimidating the thought of playing a real-life person who was going to see the film I feel like I would have held back on set and tried to sugarcoat things and make a you know it seemed as great as possible and you know it that that's not really doing justice to them to the character or her story and then right before we started shooting I flew to Portland with Craig our director and met her and by that point it didn't alter anything I'd already decided to do with the character at all because she's very candid you know when her interviews she was exactly the same in real life I mean there was nothing really to alter anyway um and I just explained to her like I'm playing a character and I see tonier as a character and you know I mean budding your spirit in and your circumstances but I'm not trying to replicate you if that makes sense and she was great about it very understanding and then I didn't see her again until the premium and we text you know throughout shooting but she wasn't a consultant she wasn't allowed on set she wasn't allowed to have a say in what we shot or how we shot it or anything like that we really wanted to try and be unbiased in that way so yeah but we we spoke throughout you know just out of respect I'd be like hey it's day one or hey happy Christmas or whatever but uh yeah she was very understanding what was her first reaction when she saw it did she say anything to you yeah not to me specifically she said she I think Steven was the first person to speak to her and she gathered that she found it to be a very emotional experience watching her as I imagined it would be and um you know she said she laughed and she cried and she said there was something she didn't agree with primarily the moments told from Jeff's point of view she's like I didn't know about the letters and I was like I know I know just like we have to say just one of you but she yeah she said we were pretty spot-on she was like when Sebastian started yelling it just like took her right back and you know yelling as Jeff of course and said Levana was like practically her mom and yeah she was she said that she felt like she finally had some closure which was which was nice to hear and know that the movies out you mentioned she came to the premiere I saw her at the Golden Globes yeah so it's okay to like sort of you know have fun with her now oh yeah the glozell larious sitting next to Tanya it was like she like I said very unapologetic and I mean she was like I'm gonna go say hi to Oprah and I was like oh god don't say okay it's just like Merrill let's get a picture I was like oh my god Meryl Streep she got me she asked Tom Hanks to take a picture of her and I was like oh my god I and she was a she at one point because when she was about to do the press line because it is really scary doing like the red cop but it's really intense and you kind of on your own and it's like a cattle call and whatever but apparently I wasn't with her at this point but she was kind of getting a bit panicky and scared about doing that and a lovely lady and the line helped her and like okay Stan I'll be waiting for you Bob wha and then we're sitting at a table she's like that's the lovely lady here come here come here this is the lovely lady helped me when we were doing the red carpet and I was like oh hello Sharon Stone hopefully lady can we talk about the physical preparation for the role I believe it was Juanita wanted to know if you had to learn to actually skate and how difficult was it yes I did and very difficult anyone here figure skate anyone done it before right okay so you know it's like it's a brutal sport and it looks like it's not that it really really is I grew up in Australia and there's no ice where I'm from so I didn't I escaped but I was obsessed with the Mighty Ducks films and I wanted to be an I so he plays so bad that I just wear my rollerblades and you know have my hockey stick and run like most skate around like that so I thought oh well when I moved to America I was like I'm in America now I can finally play ice hockey and I joined a league seven years ago and I played for like half a season until I started working on Pan Am that was the extent of my ice skating knowledge and I really oversold that part of it when I did my initial pitch to Steven I was like oh yeah I played ice hockey I'm like I'm a great skater in hindsight I was really just running on the ice with so much padding on there was little to no repercussions and once I had no padding and a toe pick on the end of the ice it's cuz I think of skating skates an ice hockey skates very different it was like a world of pain and I was yeah I really had to go back to basics and learn how to do it but I had an amazing skate coach who actually choreographed for Nancy Kerrigan back in the day York yeah yeah she and she was asked to choreograph for Tonya as well but she said no at the time and yeah it was it was really hard really hard I did it you know four hours a day five days a week for four months and it was yeah there's a lot did the choreographer like did you ask her eighth about Nancy I mean it's not really about Nancy so yeah I just let's know about the figure skating world I'm like wow I'm and when Tonya talks about it sounds like there's so many politics and she's like yep there is and yeah it sounded yeah it was fascinating to hear about what the world was in the sport was like and yeah but she was she was amazing and she's like she's I had no idea that all this you know that Tonya had upbringing she did or was going through which none of us knew we just kind of like everyone else kind of judged her based on the headlines or her appearance and you know she's she's not a dainty little thing no one really thought of her as being a victim so it was easy to kind of categorize her as the villain I guess and yeah she said she kind of sold that now and yeah in hindsight so not only capturing her physicality but some of these really intense fight scenes with both Allison Janney and Sebastian Stan in character I mean did you ever get hurt I did when we were doing the skating but not during any of the fights I mean I you always get bruises and stuff I mean I do anyway because I get caught up in the moment and kind of don't feel it at the time the next morning I wake up and I'm like whoa like black and blue so yeah just like bruises and stuff like that but I did herniated disc in my neck when I was while you were ice skating skating yeah were you able to continue skating I well had I not been a producer and I probably would have been like checking out now to go to rehab and fix my neck but because I was a producer I was like we can't afford that I'm just shoot me up with some steroids let's keep going and yeah so that I just would get MRIs at the end of each week make sure it was safe to keep going and that's the other that sounds really bad let's see everything I don't think people understand because this movie looks so terrific you're working with a pretty tight budget and not many shooting days yeah we did we had 31 days and you 11 million dollars and let wait really yeah and 267 scenes you know like a hundred and ten page script so I mean like a lot of scenes in 31 days and two Olympics and the whole thing was period which always makes it more expensive obviously so and the skating sequences I mean we were like scratching our heads trying to figure out like how can we shoot them how do we shoot something on ice we can't afford cranes wait we can't do that we can't like how we gonna do it and I out camera operator like piped up and he's like I can skate if that helps and we were like what if we put the camera on him on the ice and he's skating so that's what we did so he had the Emily shot on film so the camera was heavier than you know if you're shooting digital obviously it's like less equipment and so he was on the ice camera on the shoulder on his ice hockey skates me on my skates and we would kind of do this dance around each other and yeah it was great and then we kind of nominated out our crane shots very carefully well and also one things I really appreciate about the movie is I don't I don't think I knew that Tonya Harding was a good skater I don't think I knew just how good and how strong she was no I mean that's what that was what her pointed difference really she was a powerful skater she didn't have the grace but she had the power and when you watch it on TV I think with like a long lens and a static shot it all looks very graceful and easy you know and that is half the art the way it is for ballet but you I think that's what was so perfect about shooting it on the ice when you're up close you can see how much power it really requires to launch yourself in the air and do three and a half rotations and and land I mean it's it's insanely difficult what she did and we didn't realize how difficult the triple axel was going to be until it came time to shooting it and we're like okay we said to Sara a skate choreography okay so because we have skate doubles to do the big jumps we've had 10 years to practice I couldn't big drums and insurance wouldn't let me but like it was impossible anyway but we're like okay so couldn't skate doubles to like a trip black so it's just like what you know and we're like oh we fly someone in who can do the triple axel she was like no like no one can do a triple axel it's six women in the world have done it since Tonya did it 25 years ago it's still like a crazy impossible thing and that's when we really appreciated that you know the magnitude of what she had done and so we had to CGI the triple X on the end because it was just no one could do it yeah and going back to some of these intense scenes the movie is very funny but then it has these really heart-wrenching scenes and like depicts abuse like so unflinchingly were they hard scenes to shoot physically no because I've done like both session and I've done a lot of like fight choreography before so just like blocking it out with the cameras is more than mechanical thing emotionally yes to kind of to kind of track that and know that you're going to go back to this person when they've done that and it really it clicked for me I think when I saw there's a documentary about him about Tanya when she was 15 and she's very very matter-of-factly saying to camera my mom's an alcoholic and she hits me and she beats me and you know she was just listening it off like a grocery list like it was just nothing and that's when I was like oh wow I think the most horrific part of this abuse was the acceptance that it was just gonna be a fact of life it was always going to happen and there's nothing unusual about it and that's what was important with with the breaking the fourth wall and kind of saying speaking to camera in a matter-of-fact way it was really to give a glimpse of how habitual the abuse was and how desensitized people become to it and how they can just accept that and that to me was the most yeah that was the most heartbreaking part of it I think but what I loved and people may think this was weird is that I think the movie has kind of a happy ending I love that the final notice she wants you to know she's a good mother and yeah look at that cycle of abuse yeah and she did yeah when you talk to her it was like what really gave me a sense of okay she's okay when I met her just to hear her speak about her husband now and her kid who she adores adores and it's just yeah you can just tell that that's where she's found peace in her life and she has broken that cycle of abuse and yeah that's really really nice I mean something I think would be hard to do multiple times as when Alison throws the knife at you because you know what's coming as a person but as a performer you have to pretend like you don't know yeah I don't know how many times you shot that I mean we did not flinch we didn't have a lot of time to shoot anything really I mean that was kind of like that was yeah we kind of really went for it hard and fast and and then we moved on but there was a fun saying it was more trying to I was like just throw anything because she couldn't just straightaway pick up a knife but we didn't you know it wasn't we didn't have time to block it out we didn't have like breakaway cloths and a skunk stunk choreographer there and all that kind of stuff because you know it's an indie film so we're just picking up finding anything in the house that we could throw at each I was like throw that yep throw that to throw that if you want sure throw the glass don't worry about it so by the time it came to the knife I was like whatever just we had a rubber one for the you know the real intense throws it was fine you actually wanted to ask is the young actress who plays Tanya at an early age McKenna grace who's so lovely if you haven't seen gifted see it she's yeah credible incredible when you're both playing a character at different ages do you sort of consult with each other about like mannerisms or anything that's yeah that's an interesting question sort of I did definitely like let her know like these and the mannerisms I picked up on this is how I'm gonna play it but because there was I didn't have footage of her really at that age it was kind of like you know you do what you think you know she's I think that's one of the best things about this job and being an actor is age is so inconsequential it's it's really a level playing field so I mean she's she's a fellow actor and that's her character too and it's not for me to tell her how to do it I really you know respect her process and however she wanted to play that role I did say like these are the things I've picked up on I've done animal work or whatever it is and I'm gonna you know my walk is like this and whatever but like you do you do you like whatever whatever you think and she's so talented like it's very evident you don't need to give her any advice she knows what she's doing I want to take a couple audience questions this is Steven Payne oh right there wants to know what was your favorite scene to perform in the film and why hmm I love doing the wedding I love a wedding I've gotten married on screen like that maybe six times now and I always love a good wedding it's so fun cuz it really does feel like a wedding day like you've run kind of this cake and like everyone's kind of like happy and dancing and we obviously like had this 80s dress and the hair and right before we were shooting it because we were just kind of like making that bit up it was just you know kind of a montage sequence and I was like Sebastian because I I fall down I don't know about you guys I fall down YouTube rabbit holes all the time and one of my favorite things to YouTube is like when people choreograph a dance for their wedding dance you know when they like start as like a nice dance and then they break into like doing the running man or something I think that's amazing so I've watched watched a million of those videos I was like don't you think Jeff and Tonya would have done that and he was like what do you mean I was like I'll show you on YouTube and so I we like I was like let's just break out into like a like ridiculous 80s 90s dance and so we like choreographed it like two minutes before shooting it and it was just hilarious and then we cut the cake and then Sebastian threw it in my face which wasn't flat hand and like the whole thing was just so fun I loved yeah I always loved shooting a wedding oh yes yes yes you paid actually was the first dress we tried on we had like a couple to trial and as soon as I put it on I was like it's perfect is there a real wedding video you were able to model it after I see oh there's pictures and stuff of their wedding yeah we replicated the hair and um everything the look of it but yeah it was fun it was it was great like putting that wedding together we're like that yep plastic plates and forks and like it was it was great it was really fun you got married in real life like a year ago right before we shot on their actual I was gonna ask on your without honeymoon it was very romantic yeah middle of winter in Atlanta it was cold I just heard you had to delay your honeymoon and then you ran into Barack Obama yes yes did you watch Ellen today yeah no I just someone told me this was it today today I filmed it yesterday and yeah we so we postponed the honeymoon part because we were shooting and and then afterwards we went to Tahiti and we yeah we like got to this island it was like the last couple days about honeymoon we were gonna stay somewhere like really fancy but we just come from staying in an island that had no electricity and it was just a shack on the beach and it was like it was amazing but it was like bare-bones living and then that lost a few days was gonna be at this fancy resort and it was lovely but we got there and it was raining and we're like Oh what can we do here when it's raining and suddenly like you know 20 villas on the island or whatever and they're like oh well there is a small gym and we're like oh I guess we could go to the gym weren't really doing much but whatever and we like go to get on our bikes to ride there and my husband Tom who's also a producer in this film is wearing like his oldest gym shorts really old gym shorts really short really wide legged old gym shorts with nothing underneath and he goes to go under his bike and I was like whoa okay hey you don't wear those shorts literally your balls are hanging out like men cannot read like a Maasai oh please who are we gonna see who's who are we gonna run into I don't know it was like yeah you're right I mean this is like 10 they like you're not gonna run into anyone I said we walk into this gym which is legit the size of this platform here very small and we walk in and there's Ellen running on a treadmill and we were like and then she was like hi hi I'm Ellen and I was like hello Marcus told me she's like this is my wife Portia and I was like haha a wonderful Ellen and post her here oh my god and then she was like and have you met Barack that was like no I'm again he's like yes it was literally Barack Obama and then we had to do this whole stretching like yoga class with Tom in these little shorts and Obama like stepping over his legs to put weights down and stuff like that and he's like the gym instructor keeps going like lunge Tom lunge and Tom's like he's trying to like cross he's like smile lunging it was so funny it was it was hilarious Brooke Barack Obama he was he was familiar with your work yeah he was like he he knew who I was and he was like you're a very talented actress and I was like oh my god Obama knows who I am and and he was like yeah we were just talking about you the other night I was like thank you oh my god yeah it was crazy I want to believe he's a big Harley Quinn fan by the way what was it like for you there were so many Harley Quinn's last not last Halloween but the Halloween before I mean does that tickle you to see that was amazing or so cool especially cuz heaps of dudes dressed up this holiday as well and that that made me so happy because every Halloween like the funnest craziest characters always like a dude character so I'm always dressed up as the dudes and I was like ha this Halloween the chicks of the coolest craziest character and you can a dress up is that one that was awesome I have a feeling there'll be some Tonya's this year I was gonna go as Levana this year yeah I was really excited about it but then my best friend also has a birthday on Halloween and she picked like a Mexican fiesta themed and I'll say ah we have to do levana next year oh my god well that everyone will everyone will actually know what are you dressed up as this time yeah finally we have a question from is it Maggie you Maggie wants to know if you can talk about the time before you broke through as an actor and how and how you dealt with having doubt or fear I mean it's a pretty exciting time with the whole old times up movement and you know so many like like I said so many strong female roles this year I mean can you compare sort of when you first broke through to now yeah I've definitely seen a huge shift in in the material and everyone's obviously cottoned on to the fact that more females buy movie tickets than males therefore maybe they'd want to see more females on screen and you know I definitely in in my opinion I've seen way more scripts that are more female centric with great female characters and I think the next wave of changes to be to have female storytellers tell those stories which is which is amazing and everyone's you know really making an effort to do I find are you interested in directing I am yeah no not yet not for a couple of years but yeah that's that's always been a dream of mine that's amazing well you want to remind everyone this movie is still in theaters go see it again I've seen it four times actually because everyone wants to go see it yeah I would have watched it tonight but it was full thank you so much for being here congratulations on a great year a great performance and thank you guys for being a great audience thank you for watching [Applause]

Channel: SAG-AFTRA Foundation

Views: 25,916

Rating: 4.9589324 out of 5

Keywords: SAG Foundation, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Acting, Actors, Margot Robbie, suicide squad, wolf of wall street, Tonya Harding, I Tonya, Q&A, Interview

Id: 98TyMVrh8sQ

Length: 37min 9sec (2229 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 12 2018