Margot Robbie recalls pranking babysitter by faking her own death

Aussie actress Margot Robbie admits she had always been a dramatic child, once even staging her own death to prank her babysitter.

Margot Robbie. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

It seems Margot Robbie has been honing her acting craft since way before she made it big in Australia and overseas.

The Aussie actress admits she had always been a dramatic child, once even staging her own death to prank her babysitter at the time.

Appearing on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show with Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling, Robbie recalled scheming up a way to scare a new babysitter she didn’t like.

“We got a new babysitter and I wanted my old babysitter back, Talia, who was like 16 and I thought she was so cool,” Robbie said on the program, which was recorded before the SAG–AFTRA actors’ strike in Hollywood.

“We got this much older lady in and I was just not happy about it, and she told me to go have a bath and I didn’t want to and she was very cranky and I thought, ‘I’m going to show you.’”

So Robbie got a knife and “sprawled out naked on the tiles” in the kitchen of her Queensland home before covering herself with tomato sauce.

Margot Robbie recalls elaborate prank on babysitter. Picture: Instagram

Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling was impressed. Picture: Instagram

She recalled laying there for a long period of time waiting for the babysitter to find her, but said it was worth every second to watch the sitter run from the house, screaming.

“I waited like 45 minutes for her to find me,” she added. “But it was worth the wait.”

Gosling, 42, then joked that Robbie had “produced [her] own death”.

In the interview, the former Neighbours star admitted she had tendencies to fake injuries as a child.

“I also once practised like a pratfall on the cinema stairs at the shopping centre where I’m from and people called an ambulance. So I guess I was a bit of a dramatic child,” she joked.

Despite being perfectly cast as Barbie in the newly released live action film, Robbie said she was more of a prankster than a Barbie girl growing up in her native Queensland.

“I didn’t personally have any [Barbies] that I can recall,” she recently told People magazine.

“My sister did and I remember my cousin did. I would play with my cousin’s, but I wasn’t actually that much of a Barbie girl as a kid. I was more of a roll-around-in-the-mud kind of gal.”