Margot Robbie reveals prescription medication nightmare ahead of big audition

Margot Robbie has revealed she accidentally took too many prescription meds before a “big audition” she was desperate to nail.

Margot Robbie has admitted she is still terrified of auditions and once got in such a flap that she ended up “off her head” on a powerful ­prescription drug.

The Hollywood A-lister opened up about her “terrible” audition ordeal in an interview with The Sun, revealing auditions still “terrify” her.

“Oh my God, I had a terrible audition once. It’s kind of a long story,” the Australian actress, 31, began.

“In America, obviously, the name of medications is different to what they are in Australia.

“I had this really small day surgery thing the day before a big audition that I really wanted the role for, and I was in so much pain. I was at my friend’s house and he’d just had root canal treatment.

“I was like, ‘I’m in so much pain but I’ve got this audition tomorrow’. And he was like, ‘Oh well, I’ve got painkillers from the root canal. Take them when you wake up before your audition and you’ll be fine’. And he said, ‘Here, take two’. And when he said, ‘Take two’ I thought he meant to take two as the dosage, but he really meant to take two just in case I needed another one later.

“Anyway, I woke up and I was getting ready for this audition, didn’t get time to eat breakfast so, on an empty stomach, I had two. I’m driving and halfway there I was suddenly like, ‘Oh my God, what a lovely day it is!’

“I’ve got one hand out the window. I was off my head. It was a terrible audition, I’m sure!”

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Margot Robbie has opened up about her ‘terrible’ audition. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Robbie said the whole process was “terrible” as she remembered “curling up on the couch” at the Sony studio.

“I was going for my driving test right afterwards to get my American licence and I was like, ‘I am not OK, I cannot do a driver’s test,’” she remembered.

“Fortunately my friend worked at Sony, and I ran to her office and was like, ‘Can you give me food or something? I think I’m high. I’m not sure but I think I’m high, help me.’ It was hilarious.”

Robbie said her audition phobia is a source of enjoyment for her husband Tom Ackerley, who she met on a film set in 2013.

Ackerley, 31, from Surrey, is a film producer and the couple married in Byron Bay, Australia, in 2016.

In 2014 they co-founded production company LuckyChap Entertainment, which has since produced several Oscar-nominated films, as well as US comedy TV series Dollface.

“I haven’t just had one specific incident or time in my life where I’m like, ‘That’s it, I’m calling it quits’ – I’ve had many,” Robbie said of her impostor syndrome.

“In fact, in the week leading up to the first day of playing any character – every character I’ve ever played – I have a huge crisis of faith and convince myself that I’m a terrible actor, and I’m not actually any good at this job, and that I don’t know the character, I’ll never be able to pull it off.

“And my husband’s like, ‘OK, you know you say this every single time.’ And I say, ‘It’s different this time. This time I really can’t do it!’

“And then the first day is done and I’m like, ‘I think I can do this.’ And he’s like, ‘OK cool.’

“He’s a very patient man. So it’s not one particular time but many times – every time.”

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Margot Robbie and her husband, producer Tom Ackerley. Picture: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for FIJI Water

Robbie is now back on the big screen, reprising her role as psychotic Harley Quinn in the second outing of The Suicide Squad.

It is a part she keeps threatening to quit due to the demanding nature of the role, but she reveals: “I loved playing Harley again. I miss her when I’m not playing her, I’m exhausted when I am playing her but I’m always just keen to do it again.

“So it was so nice to be back on set and be Harley again. I definitely feel like she becomes second nature, she kind of takes over at some point and I go on autopilot and she does her thing.”

And Robbie has described how the cast did everything they could to turn the movie into a hit.

“I don’t want to give it away, but when you watch the movie the toughest scene is probably about halfway through,” she said.

“There’s an insane sequence that Harley does which was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever shot on screen.

“We shot it in about four days and I remember looking at the schedule and being like, ‘Oh my God, we’re not going to be able to do this, this is going to be impossible.’ We did it but it was hard and I was beat up by the end.

“But the whole sequence is really cool. When you see the movie, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.”

Robbie started her career on Neighbours in Australia before moving to LA and winning her breakout role when she was picked to play Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in 2013’s The Wolf Of Wall Street.

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Margot Robbie is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/AFP

Since then, she has been nominated for an Oscar twice, first for playing shamed US ice skater Tonya Harding in 2017’s I, Tonya, then for playing a fictional Fox News employee in Bombshell in 2019.

Robbie said her meteoric rise has left her feeling a little exhausted, and hinted that she is eyeing a career break.

“The busier we are, the faster the time flies and I’ve always been very busy since I was 10, 20. But now, at 30, I try to focus on the things I want to really devote time to,” she said.

“But if it’s something I really want to do, I never feel like wasting a minute. I don’t know if it’s because I’m in my thirties now, or because life took a very strange turn due to Covid.

“With lockdowns, I was at home for longer than I’ve ever stayed anywhere.

“I’ve been moving at a million miles an hour for as long as I can remember.

“It can feel a little scary sometimes. But now I finally feel like it’s OK to sit still. Or even sit this one out. That’s a feeling I haven’t had before.”

This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission

Originally published as Margot Robbie reveals prescription medication nightmare ahead of big audition