jamaicablueescape | Autumn 2016
JB INTERVIEW MARGOT ROBBIE
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on the brink of a year that looks set to land her place in the big time, she confesses she remains overwhelmed by the opportunities that have come her way in Hollywood. “I still feel undeserving to be part of all these films,” Robbie admits. “People work decades and don’t get opportunities like these so I will be guilt-ridden for the rest of my life and never feel like I really deserve this.” But then with a sincere smile, she adds, “But it’s also fantastic!” Margot Elise Robbie, the third of four children raised by a single mother, spent her childhood shuttling between the mountains near the Gold Coast and the small Queensland country town of Dalby,
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where most of her extended family lives. Her mother is a physiotherapist who worked with the elderly when she was young and now does the same work with disabled kids. Margot reveals her most cherished accomplishment to date is the fact that, on her mother’s 60th birthday two years ago, she was able to pay off the mortgage on her house. Robbie was only 17 and working at a local sandwich shop when she was auditioned for Neighbours and was offered her first full-time acting job. She moved to Melbourne for a two-and-a-half-year stint on the soap before then heading off to Los Angeles just days after wrapping her scenes. A year later, she was on set
filming the R-rated scenes in The Wolf of Wall Street, and that was when we saw Margot in a whole new light. Who can forget the seduction scene in the family nursery as she powerfully pushed her stiletto heel into Leonardo DiCaprio’s face? “It was a really long way from Neighbours, in so many ways,” Robbie recalls with just a hint of a proud grin. She won an instant fan in her co-star DiCaprio, who helped Scorsese in spotting the Aussie beauty and casting her as his wife. “Margot’s my homie,” DiCaprio says, using the popular gang reference as a term of endearment. “I knew she’d have a big career after our film and I’m proud to see how
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