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The Wolf of Wall Streetdropped Christmas 2013, but over a year later, the world is collectively still drooling over its breakout star, Margot Robbie. Fresh off of portraying Jordan Belfort's unbelievably sexy trophy wife Naomi, Robbie stayed low and racked up even bigger roles in upcoming movies. Her clip is fully loaded, so get ready to start hearing her name and seeing that gorgeous face a lot more often, beginning with this week's rom-com caper Focus, opposite Will Smith. By next year, she'll be a full-on household name when she throws her hat into the superhero movie ring as Harley Quinn in DC's highly anticipated supervillain extravaganza Suicide Squad. That same summer she'll play Jane in a new Tarzan reboot. The A-list awaits. Robbie's about to woo America over beyond a one-hit wonder opposite Leo, so now's the perfect time to get to know her. Her interviews are still lightweight scarce, but here are ten things you should know about your next actress crush, with sexy GIFs as the cherry on top.
If you're a TV nerd, Wolf of Wall Street isn't the first place you've seen her.
Marty Scorsese's hedonistic finance bro epic was her breakout, yes, but it wasn't the first US role Margot booked. For all those who give every new promising TV show a shot before it blows up, they first saw Margot in ABC's short-lived period drama Pan Am. The show was billed as broadcast TV's answer to Mad Men, but Margot would later admit the writing was on the wall after plots began to devolve into a much more soapy, melodramatic narrative typical of most ABC dramas.
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She lowkey "assaulted" Leonardo DiCaprio.
She aced her audition for The Wolf of Wall Street basically by duffing Leonardo DiCaprio. While running through a tense scene between Jordan Belfort and his wife Naomi, with only Martin Scorsese and the casting director in the room, Robbie feared she was bricking her big chance. So she took Leo's improvisational cues, but instead of ad-libbing lines, she threw in a slap that wasn't in the script. For a minute, she thought it was the final nail in the coffin of a weak audition. Instead Leo and Marty burst into laughter and thought it was brilliant.
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She improvised in her Focus audition too.
Turning up in auditions seems to be Margot's wave. Fresh off of slapping Leo to land her breakout role, she scored the co-lead gig in Will Smith's Focus when she went off-script and called him (in-character) a dick. Apparently the move became an inside joke within the cast and crew to the point of becoming a running gag in the actual movie.
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She's been trying to get into the superhero game.
Before landing the role of Harley Quinn in DC's highly anticipated Suicide Squad, Margot auditioned for Susan Storm in this year's upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Obviously the honor went to Kate Mara, but one could argue Margot won out with the flashier role.
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One of her first jobs was making sandwiches at Subway.
The official title was "Sandwich Artist." Nowadays, she says she can't bring herself to walk into a Subway. But not out of embarrassment (or, ya know, cuz she's too rich for fast food footlongs). She just can't help but be super judgmental and nitpicky when a Subway employee isn't respecting the artistry of her sandwich. Her respect for the craft and expectations are just too damn high after having been on the other side of the counter.
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Like most Australians, she's a huge sports fan.
Before Pan Am got canceled, Robbie and the cast put together a softball team wherein she was the de facto Coach Taylor. Sports movie pep talks, face-painting, and post-win turn-ups at the beer garden were the norm. She's also a huge hockey fan and plays in a league in LA. In other words, she's the perfect guy's girl.
She has an interesting nickname.
Her nickname is "Maggot." Definitely not what you'd expect for a dime such as herself—and of course it originated in grade school—and yet, she embraces it. Holler [if and] when you see her.
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She's probably already cuffed up.
Margot reportedly "doesn't talk about her personal life." (Don't they all?). But of course, rumors persist. The gossip blogs perpetuated a fling with the Fresh Prince himself during filming, but more likely are the rumors of her and assistant director Tom Ackerley. It's too boring to not be true.
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She actually doesn't want to talk about herself that much.
If you've made it to this slide then you've realized that there isn't much to grasp on, so far, in getting to know Margot Robbie. But as per this interesting quote from her interview with Violet Grey, that's lowkey by design: "There’s nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That’s not why I became an actress. That’s what I find so funny, that you become an actor and all of a sudden everyone wants to know about you. But I didn’t become an actor so I could show you me. I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me." Intriguing take in an era where most celebrities work just to further their Personal Brand™.
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And if she weren't acting...
She'd want to be a...trapeze artist? Random, but that probably came in handy while filming Tarzan.
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