Margot Robbie: Hollywood’s Golden Girl | 271

Even the Rich

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

As a kid in Australia, Margot Robbie knows she wants to be a movie star, but doesn’t think it’s possible. But after wowing audiences with her star turn (and convincing Brooklyn accent) in Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the Aussie is well on her way. And she flips her own script by developing material for herself, like 2017's “I, Tonya,” which scores her an Oscar nomination. And Margot doesn’t stop there. She decides to tackle a project that’s so iffy it’s already been passed over by some of Hollywood’s biggest leading ladies. She develops, produces and stars in “Barbie.” It’s a smash and cultural phenomenon that cements Margot’s place at the top of the Hollywood food chain. We’re just Margot girls living in a Margot world!

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of Even the Rich before anyone else.
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0:14.1	Brooke, how brave would you say you are?
0:17.2	Mm.
0:18.4	God.
0:18.9	That depends on the situation.
0:20.7	Yeah. Like, I don't know. I'm not brave. I. That depends on the situation. Yeah.
0:21.1	Like, I don't know. I'm not brave.
0:24.1	I think it depends. Like, am I, like, saving my dog's life, then probably pretty brave.
0:29.5	Am I?
0:29.7	Okay. Saving your husband's life? Not so brave.
0:32.8	Exactly.
0:36.0	Well, today's subject is definitely brave.
0:39.3	She grows up on the Gold Coast of Australia, chasing off potentially venomous snakes in her house.
0:45.4	Oh, my God.
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:46.7	And as an up-and-coming actor in her first major movie role, she insists on doing a scene with full frontal nudity.
0:53.5	She insists? She does. Not full frontal nudity. She insists?
0:54.7	She does.
0:55.4	Not because she wanted to, but because it would be true to the character.
0:59.1	And then a few years later, she takes a huge gamble when she makes a movie about a toy doll
1:03.3	that's basically considered outdated and uncool.
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