“I couldn’t stop thinking about that stupid dream,” she says, and so she found this place and took a few classes. She hadn’t given it a thought in years, though, until she began having a recurring dream not long ago in which she was flying through the air, high above the net under the big top.
When Robbie was growing up in Australia, her mother sent her off to circus school-she received her “trapeze certificate” when she was eight. I assumed Robbie had taken up the trapeze for one of the very physically demanding roles she plays in two big studio movies coming out back-to-back this summer-Jane in The Legend of Tarzan, costarring Alexander Skarsgård and directed by David Yates, in July, followed by the cultishly beloved psychopath Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, based on a task force of characters from DC Comics and directed by David Ayer, which comes out in August and seems bound to turn her into a household name-but I had assumed wrong. This was Margot Robbie playing her caricature-the retrograde Playboy fantasy in permanent soft-focus. Thankfully, the cameo turned out to be a clever little lie in a movie all about big fat ones. The fact that just two years prior she so ferociously inhabited the role of the hottest gold digger in the history of cinema in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, permanently lodging herself in the collective male libido, served only to reinforce my concern that she might be some new breed of high-maintenance superpredator.
Here, it seemed, was that girl who invites you to stare and then tells you to fuck off if you stare for too long. When Margot Robbie popped up in The Big Short last year for a 60-second cameo-by definition, playing herself-to explain what “shorting” a bond means while drinking Dom Pérignon in the bathtub of a billionaire’s Malibu condo, I subconsciously shorted her. With two major blockbusters on the horizon, her own production company, and a take-no-prisoners approach to the world at large, Margot Robbie is summer’s brightest-burning Hollywood star.
And then I thought, Well, why is she doing it? Why isn’t it me?” “I remember thinking, I could have done it better. Margot Robbie (with Tarzan costar Alexander Skarsgård) caught the acting bug while watching a fellow teen on TV.
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