Margot Robbie says fame after Wolf of Wall Street was one of her ‘lowest moments’

In a new Vanity Fair interview, Margot Robbie says fame after Wolf of Wall Street was one of her ‘lowest moments’ and says an ‘obvious’ Barbie movie wasn’t worth doing.

Margot Robbie takes aim at the paparazzi in her Vanity Fair interview. Picture: Mario Sorrenti/Vanity Fair.

Margot Robbie has opened up about the dark side of fame in a comprehensive new interview with Vanity Fair.

“The way I try to explain this job — and this world — to people is, the highs are really high and the lows are really, really low,” the actor and producer said of her meteoric Hollywood ascension in 2013.

“I guess if you’re lucky, it all balances out in the middle.”

The 32-year-old wasn’t ready for the loss of privacy following a breakout role in The Wolf of Wall Street (which Robbie got by tenaciously slapping Leonardo DiCaprio in her audition).

“Something was happening in those early stages and it was all pretty awful, and I remember saying to my mum: ‘I don’t think I want to do this.’

Margot Robbie takes Vanity Fair on-set of her new movie Babylon for the day. Picture: Mario Sorrenti/Vanity Fair.

“And she just looked at me, completely straight-faced, and was like, ‘Darling, I think it’s too late not to.’ That’s when I realised the only way was forward.”

Robbie adds that she’s learned how to navigate the fame better with age and experience: “I know how to go through airports, and now I know who’s trying to f**k me over in what ways.”

Margot Robbie on the Vanity Fair December 2022 cover. Picture: Mario Sorrenti for Vanity Fair in Paris on September 23.

However, there are some challenges she still grapples with, such as the lack of restrictions on paparazzi in her native Australia.

Robbie took aim at the photographers who have swept her family up in dangerous situations while pursuing them in Queensland.

“If my mum dies in a car accident because you wanted a photo of me going in the grocery shop, or you knock my nephew off a bike … for what? For a photo?

“It’s dangerous but still weirdly nothing feels like it changes.”

Robbie and her three siblings were raised by a single mum, she added, which is why she feels “right at home” in the “chaos” of movie sets.

Since founding LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014, Robbie has championed female stories and storytellers (bagging Oscar nominations along the way for both I, Tonya, and Promising Young Woman).

Elsewhere in the interview, though, she announced the female-led Pirates of the Caribbean spin-off that she’s had in the works is dead in the water. Disney did not want to do it, she said.

And there’s Barbie, the much-anticipated film that was a non-starter until Robbie signed on to star and produce.

“Making an obvious Barbie movie would’ve been extremely easy to do, and anything easy to do is probably not worth doing,” Robbie said.