‘I could have been hurt’: Margot Robbie breaks silence on Argentina paparazzo ‘brawl’

Margot Robbie reveals more about the alleged confrontation between her mates and a paparazzo while in Buenos Aires with Cara Delevingne.

Margot Robbie slammed paparazzi after saying she could have been hurt during an alleged confrontation outside a swanky Argentina restaurant.

Ms Robbie and actress Cara Delevingne were in Buenos Aires with two British filmmakers in October when they were photographed as they left a restaurant in the early hours of the morning.

In an interview to promote an upcoming project, Ms Robbie was asked by Vanity Fair author Rebecca Ford if she was hurt in the altercation.

“No, but I could have been,” she said, adding that ongoing legal issues prevent her from saying more.

Ms Robbie’s business partner, Wolf of Wall Street producer Josey McNamara, and filmmaker Jac Rhys Hopkins, were arrested over the alleged assault of photographer Pedro Alberto Orquera, according to a police report obtained by News Corp Australia.

Margot Robbie on the cover of Vanity Fair. Picture: Mario Sorrenti/Vanity Fair

Margot Robbie in Vanity Fair. Picture: Mario Sorrenti/Vanity Fair

CCTV footage shows what appears to be two males chase down another male, who is then seen falling on to the road outside the Patagonia Sur restaurant. Mr Orquera suffered a blow to the head and a fracture to his right elbow.

Ms Robbie said in Vanity Fair that there aren’t rules protecting public figures internationally like she has in Los Angeles, adding that her family in Australia have been in dangerous situations when being chased by photographers.

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

Ms Robbie, 32, and Ms Delevingne, 30, were in Argentina after flying in from Paris Fashion Week. It is not suggested that they are involved in any wrongdoing.

The close friends made headlines in September when Ms Robbie was pictured outside Ms Delevingne’s home in what paparazzo claimed was tearful worry over her the super model’s health. It left Ms Robbie’s mum calling to ask if she and Ms Delevingne were all right.

Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie. Picture: Getty Images

“I’m like, ‘First of all, yes and yes. And second of all, I’m not at Cara’s house — I’m outside an Airbnb that I was renting for five days!” Robbie told Vanity Fair, exasperated.

“And I’m not crying!’ I had something in my eye. I’m trying to grab my face mask, trying to hold a coffee cup, and I couldn’t get a hair outta my eye.”

Ms Robbie said she long ago made peace with the fact she couldn’t refute every false story that appeared online.

“You want to correct it, but you just can’t. You have to, I don’t know, look the other way,” she said.

While she wasn’t’ prepared for the instantaneous fame and loss of privacy that came with starring in Wolf of Wall Street, she has since learned how to better handle on navigating fame.

“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.’ 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.”

Margot Robbie and Leonardo di Caprio in a scene from 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Picture: supplied

“I know how to go through airports, and now I know who’s trying to fuck me over in what ways,” she added.

Vanity Fair Cover story highlights:

SHOWING SKIN IN TV SERIES, BABYLON

“I don’t really have a whole lot of modesty left,” she said. “I don’t feel embarrassed when it’s Nellie doing something. I’d feel embarrassed if it was me, but it’s all her.”

HER ROLE OF NELLIE in BABYLON

“It was the most physically and emotionally draining character I’ve ever played, by a country mile. She demands so much of you that she left me in pieces.”

THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF HOLLYWOOD

“The way I try to explain this job — and this world — to people is that the highs are really high and the lows are really, really low. And I guess if you’re lucky, it all balances out in the middle.”

BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY

“I have to fight every time,” she said. “Then everyone realises after a few months, ‘Oh, she actually is a producer,’ … But even still, people direct all the money questions at my producing partners, never at me. And so many times Tom and Josey have to say, ‘She’s the one to ask, actually.’”

GROWING UP IN QUEENSLAND

“I grew up in a very loud, busy house, and so I feel safe and comfortable when there is just chaos around me. I think it’s why I love movie sets.”

Originally published as ‘I could have been hurt’: Margot Robbie breaks silence on Argentina paparazzo ‘brawl’