Margot Robbie On Her Acting-Crisis Before Starting Barbie: “Oh My God, I Don’t Know How To Do This”

Barbie Girl Margot Robbie elaborates about her experience & phase of acting crisis before commencing the shoot for the Greta Gerwig directorial.

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00:00 Barbie, indeed, was 2023's biggest blockbuster of Hollywood, which also did a banger performance

00:07 in the Indian markets.

00:09 Margot Robbie, the main lead actress of the film, who also happens to be the producer

00:14 of the same, has recently opened up on overcoming actor crisis in relation to her most ambitious

00:21 project Barbie in a recent interview with Los Angeles Times.

00:27 Actor-writer Greta Gerwig also recalled the time when the Barbie star, Robbie, was having

00:33 a meltdown on the prospect of taking on the role.

00:37 In a conversation with Los Angeles Times, Margot Robbie revealed, "I went to Greta's

00:42 house and had that crisis.

00:44 I'd spent years trying to get this movie going, and suddenly we are going to shoot the thing.

00:50 I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't know how to do this.'

00:54 It happens before every single movie I've ever done.

00:58 A few weeks out, I have this meltdown where I'm like, 'What am I doing?

01:02 I don't know how to act.

01:04 Everyone's going to suddenly realize that I can't do any of this, and it's going

01:09 to be terrible.'

01:11 And then it's just sheer panic."

01:13 Filmmaker Greta Gerwig additionally elaborated her concerns about understanding the situation

01:20 with respect to Margot.

01:22 "I have a distinct memory of Margot coming over to my house before we started shooting

01:28 and having a bit of an actor crisis.

01:31 How am I doing this?

01:33 It's the actor equivalent of facing a blank page," she added.

01:38 Meanwhile, in terms of the film economics, Barbie had crossed over $1.44 billion and

01:45 achieved several milestones, including becoming the highest-crossing film of 2023 and the

01:52 14th highest-crossing film of all times.

01:56 "I think it's a really good film."

02:02 (dramatic music)