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IT’S only a few days old but 2017 is already shaping as the year Australian screen star Margot Robbie becomes a true Hollywood heavyweight.
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IT’S only a few days old but 2017 is already shaping as the year Australian screen star Margot Robbie becomes a true Hollywood heavyweight.
Fresh from her low-key wedding last month near Byron Bay, the 26-year-old is back in the US where she is starring as disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding in the upcoming biopic I, Tonya.
The film follows the life of Harding, a promising figure skater turned criminal who paid a hitman in 1994 to break the leg of her closest rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Not content with the title role Robbie, who was yesterday named by Forbes magazine as one of the most influential people in Hollywood aged under 30, is also involved with the film’s production through her company LuckyChap Entertainment.
Helmed by her husband and fellow The Wolf of Wall Street star Tom Ackerley, childhood friend turned assistant Sophia Kerr and Ackerley’s friend Josey McNamara, LuckyChap also produced a thriller called Terminal last year starring Robbie, Simon Pegg and Mike Myers.
“It’s really cool and different, obviously with a smaller budget than the films people are going to see me in this year,” Robbie said of I, Tonya.
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Robbie was said to worth about $8 million last year — and that was before her biggest hit movie Suicide Squad grossed a staggering $US735 million worldwide.
Despite her mega riches, Robbie and Ackerley lived in a London sharehouse with six others until their post-marriage move to Los Angeles, where LuckyChap is based.
The fledgling filmmaking company has also picked up the rights for Gotham City Sirens, a spin-off of Suicide Squad in which Robbie will reprise her role as the pigtailed Harley Quinn, with a cast of fellow female superheroes including Poison Ivy, who will be Quinn’s on-screen girlfriend, and Catwoman.
In recognising her growing influence in Hollywood, Forbe wrote: “After a breakout role in Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Robbie ruled 2016’s multiplexes with The Legend of Tarzan and a leading turn in Suicide Squad. She is also working to build her own narratives.”
LuckyChap Entertainment is also in preproduction for the filmic adaptation of two thrillers, Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys and Gin Phillips’ novel Beautiful Things.
Power player
Forbes has name her as one of the most influential players in Hollywood under 30.
Recent movies
Wolf of Wall Street (2013), worldwide gross: $US392m
The Legend of Tarzan (2016), worldwide gross: $US357m
Suicide Squad (2016), worldwide gross: $US745m
In the pipeline
Robbie’s production company LuckyChap is working on several big movies:
I, Tonya (starring Robbie as disgraced Olympian Tonya Harding)
Terminal (thriller starring Robbie alongside Simon Pegg and Mike Myers)
Gotham City Sirens (Suicide squad spin-off)
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