Margot Robbie has revealed that Quentin Tarantino requested that she didn’t wash her toes when on the As soon as Upon A Time…In Hollywood set.
The Australian-born actress shared the anecdote in a brand new video interview with Vogue, the place she broke down a few of the most well-known seems to be she has sported all through her performing profession.
Discussing her fictionalised portrayal of ‘70s actress Sharon Tate in 2019’s As soon as Upon A Time… In Hollywood — which additionally starred Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino — Tate shared perception into certainly one of her most iconic scenes within the movie.
The second in query was the scene through which Robbie removes her footwear whereas in a film theatre, and enjoys the movie whereas resting her naked toes on the seat in entrance of her. The scene is certainly one of apparently 36 pictures of individuals’s toes within the movie, in keeping with the TopMotionClips YouTube channel, and shortly grew to become a speaking level across the film.
In keeping with Robbie, whereas the plan for her to “kick off her go-go boots” and put her toes up was at all times within the script, the soiled look that they had within the ultimate shot was a spontaneous selection, after the director requested her to not wash them on the day.
“My character walks right into a film theatre to see herself on the massive display screen, and she or he form of kicks off her go-go boots and places her toes up and settles in to observe the film,” she defined within the video. “However my toes had been soiled as a result of I’d been strolling round set.”
She continued: “They stayed soiled within the film as a result of Quentin mentioned, ‘Don’t. Don’t clear them,’. Somebody ran in to do it, and he was like, ‘No, it’s actual. Hold it.’”
The Pulp Fiction director beforehand addressed feedback made about his “fetish” for girls’s toes, and justified his determination to have them seem so regularly in his cinematography.
“There’s a variety of toes in a variety of good administrators’ motion pictures,” he mentioned, including that he doesn’t take the feedback “critically”.
“Like, earlier than me, the individual foot fetishism was outlined by was Luis Buñuel, one other movie director,” he added. “And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”
In different Margot Robbie information, final month the actress admitted that she initially believed the upcoming Barbie film — through which she seems within the lead function — would “by no means see the sunshine of day”.
“The primary time I learn the Barbie script, my response was, ‘Ah! That is so good. What a disgrace it is going to by no means see the sunshine of day as a result of they’re by no means going to allow us to make this film.’ However they did.”
Set for launch on July 21, the movie is directed by Greta Gerwig and has been long-awaited by followers. It additionally stars Ryan Gosling, Helen Mirren, Michael Cera and Will Ferrell.