Margot Robbie ‘Disappearing’ From Acting For a While
Margot Robbie won’t be in any upcoming films any time soon. Following the major success of this summer’s blockbuster hit, Barbie, the Australian actress feels like everyone is “probably sick of the sight of me.” She told Deadline in a new interview on Wednesday (January 10) that she will be disappearing from the screens “for a while.” Robbie, 33, made her Hollywood breakthrough over a decade ago with 2013’s Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Since then, she has been highly sought-after in film roles and has since appeared in the DCEU as Harley Quinn and starred in the award-winning 2017 film I, Tonya. Robbie set up her own production company, LuckyChap a year after Wolf of Wall Street‘s success. The company has produced films Promising Young Woman and the most recent cheeky thriller, Saltburn.
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However, after being inescapable on billboards across the globe, Robbie is painfully aware that the general public is probably sick of her gorgeous face. As a producer, she won’t get a break. But as an actress, it has already been over a year since she has acted on set. She wrapped up Barbie in October of 2022, and that has been her longest break since COVID-19. She is totally fine with not being seen so people won’t be over her. As for what she’s got cooking up next, Robbie is unsure but hopes “it’s a little while away.”
Behind the scenes, Margot has produced and now wants to direct — something she’s wanted to do for the last seven years. “But I’ve always seen it as a privilege, not a right,” she tells Deadline. To earn that privilege, she has been slowly working towards the feeling that she has earned the right to direct, and feels like she is “getting close to that feeling now.”
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At the weekend’s Golden Globes, Barbie was awarded the inaugural Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, a category created to recognize films that garnered “extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence.” While it only took home one award out of its nine nominations, Barbie was the highest-grossing film of 2023 — both domestically and worldwide.
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