Margot Robbie has revealed she just lately had her very personal Notting Hill second, the place she busted a gaggle of males in a pub discussing her blockbuster film Barbie.
Similar to within the cult ‘90s rom-com, the place Julia Roberts’ film star character bails up a gaggle of blokes speaking about her in a restaurant, the Australian actress encountered a really comparable situation at a consuming gap in Scotland.
Talking at a SAG-AFTRA screening of the movie in Los Angeles this week, Robbie informed how she overheard males at a bucks evening debating how Barbie had change into a popular culture motion shortly after the film’s launch in July final 12 months.
“I had this good expertise,” Robbie, 33, started. “I used to be in a pub in the midst of nowhere in Scotland and I listened for about half-hour to a gaggle of fellows on a bachelor get together discussing the Barbie film, not understanding that I used to be sitting two or three ft away from them.”
Robbie continued, “It was simply really fascinating. There have been individuals on the desk who refused to see the Barbie film.
“One man was like, ‘Dude, it’s a cultural second, don’t you wish to be part of tradition?’ And the opposite man was like, ‘I’ll by no means see it,’ and by the tip he did wish to see it. It was a complete factor.
“I wasn’t going to go as much as them, however then I did.”
Earlier than leaving the pub, Robbie casually waltzed as much as the group of males who “misplaced it” after they found she was current.
“On the final minute as I used to be strolling out I went to their desk and I went ‘Thanks for seeing the Barbie film’,” she added.
“It was very humorous, they misplaced it. It took a full minute for them to understand and I used to be virtually out the door they usually went ‘Ohhhh’.
“Folks’s reactions to the film have been the most important reward of this complete expertise.”
It comes after Robbie addressed her controversial Academy Awards snub within the Greatest Actress class, in addition to Greta Gerwig’s omission for Greatest Director.
Backlash was swift after nominations had been unveiled late January, and whereas Barbie scored a powerful eight nominations – together with for Greatest Image – many had been left disgruntled at how the 2 girls answerable for the movie’s billion-dollar field workplace success had been ignored, whereas Ryan Gosling scored a Greatest Supporting Actor nod for enjoying Ken.
However Robbie conceded there was “no approach to really feel unhappy once you’re this blessed.”
“Clearly, I believe Greta must be nominated as a director,” the three-time Oscar nominee added.
“What she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime factor. What she pulled off, it truly is.
“Everybody getting the nods that they’ve had is simply unimaginable, and the Greatest Image nod.
“We got down to do one thing that may shift tradition, have an effect on tradition, simply make some form of influence. And it’s already carried out that and a few, far more than we ever dreamt it could. And that’s really the most important reward that might come out of all of this.”