Margot Robbie has finally addressed the obsession with her feet online, and what she had to say it quite surprising.
Her feet sparked a major discussion online after the release of the Barbie teaser earlier this year, it’s safe to say people were obsessed.
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The film is expected to be one of the largest film releases in recent years, which comes as no surprise given the cast’s stunning performances, the writing and directorial team’s stellar reputations, and the fact that the story revolves around one of the most famous toys to have ever existed.
Now, Robbie has to be among the greatest celebrities in Hollywood right now. Since the Australian actor burst onto the cinematic scene in Richard Curtis’ About Time in 2013, it has been clear that she would become a star.
Robbie didn’t truly make a mark until later that year, when she appeared in The Wolf Of Wall Street. Robbie made waves for that scene in particular.
Despite her dedication to her art, Robbie nearly missed out on landing the role of Barbie, which was initially given to comedian Amy Schumer.
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According to JOE, the film has been in development since Mattel initially secured a contract with Universal back in 2009. After that, it went to Sony, and by 2017, Schumer had signed up for the role.
However, Schumer quickly concluded that the role wasn’t meant to be, since she and the studio had different ideas about how the story ought to be portrayed.
She told the Hollywood Reporter at the time: “The studio definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it. The only way I was interested in doing it.”
By July 2019, Robbie had been cast as Barbie, when Warner Bros. finally decided to take on the film.
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Now it’s almost time for the movie to come out after all these years of anticipation; it’s scheduled to premiere on July 21. But as excited as we all are about the movie, there’s still one strange obsession that’s being discussed online.
Fans couldn’t stop talking about Margot Robbie’s feet in the trailer for the movie that debuted earlier this year.
And now Robbie has addressed the fixation, telling Culture Blend: “The very first time I Googled myself, you know how when you type something into Google and it predicts what the rest of it is going to be?
“I’d started working and I was on some things and I hadn’t Googled myself before, and so I wrote in ‘Margot Robbie’ and before I finished writing ‘Robbie,’ ‘Margot Robbie feet’ came up.”
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She continued: “I clicked on it and realized that there were pictures zoomed in on my feet and people were writing about them and someone had made a video compilation of footage of my feet and I was like, ‘oh wow, this is like a thing. I didn’t realize.”
You’d think this would be a little hard to digest for the actress, but it seems she’s taken it all in her stride.
She added: “I think that’s lovely.
“I am [flattered], genuinely. I don’t feel weird about it.