5 Roles Margot Robbie Nailed
Margot Robbie is one of the fastest rising stars in Hollywood today, thanks to her role
in The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese, which launched her into stardom.
Comic book fans soon noted her striking resemblance to popular comic character Harley Quinn, and
it wasn’t long until people were clamouring for her to play the role. DC of course obliged,
and now with Suicide Squad under her belt her career is looking to hit the stratosphere.
While she hasn’t been in many films compared to stars like Scarlett Johannsson or Angelina
Jolie, she has played several characters that have really caught our eye. Here are the 5
roles that Margot Robie nailed.
Donna Freedman – Neighbours A lot of major movie starts got their first
break on soap operas: Julianne Moore, Ryan Phillipe and Josh Duhamel all began their
careers in daytime. While it may seem odd to put an Australian soap opera on this list,
Donna Freedman was the role synonymous with Margot Robbie before her big break in film.
Appearing in 311 episodes on the popular soap opera, Donna Freedman was very much the average
person… except, y’know… smoking hot. Margot was involved in several controversial
storylines, including kissing another woman on screen, a scene that caused the Australian
Family Association to express concern over the “normalisation of same sex relationships”,
despite the scene not involving homosexuality or bisexuality.
Being a consistently strong neighbour for three years before finally flying off to seek
a new life in New York, Donna is now considered one of the show’s most famous characters,
if all else thanks to Margot Robbie’s newfound fame.
While this role is already fast being forgotten with all of her recent movie success, this
was the part that brought Margot fame and without it, we likely wouldn’t have her
today. That being said, how impressive is it when someone is actually able to break
out of a career in soap operas?
Jane Porter – The Legend of Tarzan With Harry Potter’s David Yates in the director’s
chair, Margot Robbie stars opposite Alexander Skarsgard as Jane and Tarzan respectively.
Margot Robbie brings a strong emotional performance to the iconic character, playing her as an
American Aristocrat more in line with the character of the books, as opposed to the
wealthy English girl that the Disney movie made famous.
Playing Jane in the modern age was no doubt going to be a difficult task, as Margot had
to balance being strong and independent, but also had to convey that she still needed Tarzan
without seeming week. Margot Robbie pulls it off greatly, and shows her development
as an actor. She also, humorously, managed to physically
strike Alexander Skarsgard after David Yates told her to be more aggressive while filming
the movie’s sex scene; meaning that she is in a select order of people who have punched
Mr. Skarsgard and lived to tell the tale.
Ann Burden - Z for Zachariah With her natural brown hair, Margot Robbie
plays Ann Burden in Z for Zachariah, a tense post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Craig
Zobel based on Robert C. O’Brien’s bestselling novel of the same name. With only three actors,
Margot Robbie turns in a great performance in what is probably her most challenging role.
She pulls this great movie along with help from only Chris Pine and Chitwetel Ejiofor.
The movie focuses entirely on the relationship between the three characters and all the tension
that comes from it. Robbie really shows her range in a role that
required a lot of subtlety. Despite being one of her lesser known movies, and being
an independent film that did not benefit from a huge release, it is without a doubt one
of the finest performances that she has turned in thus far.
Harley Quinn – Suicide Squad Harley Quinn will likely be her best remembered
role for in years to come. Wanted by many fans to play Harley because of her striking
resemblance to the character and a proven knack for accents, particularly Brooklyn,
it’s hard to imagine anyone else playing the role anywhere near as well.
Perfectly nailing the manic crazy that is Harley Quinn, while still conveying the sensitive,
self destructive, tragic-romantic side of the character, Margot delivered a critically
acclaimed performance in a film that was largely panned by critics.
We’ll no doubt be seeing Robbie reprise her role as Harley Quinn in movies to come,
based purely on the popularity of her electric performance that made her the perfect foil
to Will Smith’s Deadshot. Naomi Lapaglia (Wollf Of Wall Street)
Based loosely on the real life Nadine Caridi, this is without a doubt the most important
film role that Margot Robbie has had so far. Being near the centre of the entire film,
Margot plays Naomi, Jordan Belfort’s wife and occasional partner in crime.
With her almost film noir esque character and look, Margot Robbie portrays Naomi like
a femme fatale at first, but as the movie goes on, we see a more 3 dimensional character
emerge. Not just a beautiful “trophy wife” to a wealthy wall streeter, Naomi emerges
as a character with emotional depth and intelligence and someone with a real sense of humour.
So thanks a bunch Martin Scorsese, we owe you one.
So these were our favourite 5 performances that Margot Robbie nailed, were there any
that we missed out? Would you have liked to have seen entries like Focus on the list.
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