Outdated Hollywood glam! Margot Robbie shocked on stage on the 2023 Oscars.
Although the Babylon actress, 32, didn’t make an look on the champagne carpet at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, she wowed whereas honoring 100 years of Warner Bros. alongside Morgan Freeman throughout the occasion. The Barbie star seemed each bit a Twenties film star in a black, sequined Armani Privé robe that featured a deep, sweetheart neckline and off-the-shoulder sleeves. She wore her lengthy, brunette locks slicked straight down her shoulders.
“A story of outsized ambition and outrageous extra,” per its official synopsis, Babylon — which has already taken house the Golden Globe for Finest Authentic Rating – Movement Image — “traces the rise and fall of a number of characters throughout an period of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.” Amongst these characters are Brad Pitt’s Jack Conrad (an growing older silent-movie star), Robbie’s Nellie LaRoy (Tinseltown’s subsequent “It” lady), Jean Sensible’s Elinor St. John (a celeb journalist) and Diego Calva’s Manny Torres (an immigrant from Mexico who rises by the ranks of the movie studios). Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Olivia Wilde and extra additionally star within the Australian movie, which was launched in December 2022.
The ritzy image is up for 3 Oscar statuettes on Sunday night time: Finest Authentic Rating, Finest Costume Design and Finest Manufacturing Design.
Whereas Pitt and Robbie had been nominated for his or her star turns within the black comedy on the 2023 Critics’ Alternative Awards in January and on the Golden Globes the next month (Calva, 30, was up for a greatest actor award for his function within the movie that night time), the actors — and the remainder of the solid — the duo had been snubbed for any particular person performing nods on the SAGs and the Oscars. The solid as an entire, in the meantime, was nominated for Excellent Efficiency by a Solid in a Movement Image on the SAG Awards however misplaced the actor statue to Every little thing All over the place All at As soon as.
Throughout a November 2022 screening of Babylon, the I, Tonya actress opened up about portraying the tour de power that was her character Nellie — and why the expertise left her spent.
“I really like her a lot however she’s so exhausting,” Robbie mentioned on the occasion, per Selection. “She took the whole lot from me, bodily and emotionally.”
The Australia native elaborated: “Throughout dance sequences or no matter, months into the shoot, I needed to actually sustain the power ranges. I keep in mind I had written on the entrance of my script, ‘Demand their full consideration, at all times.’ She did that to me.”
It was probably the most intense function the two-time Oscar winner had ever taken on. “By the top of the primary week of taking pictures, I got here house and I keep in mind I mentioned to my husband [Tom Ackerley], ‘That is the toughest I’ve ever labored.’”
Jun Li, who portrayed Girl Fay Zhu within the movie (based mostly on real-life Hollywood starlet Anna Might Wong) informed Luxurious London that very same month that probably the most “lovely” a part of Babylon was “each actor, background or in the primary solid, gave 1,000 p.c with each single take,” she mentioned. “Each time was just like the final time we had been going to do it.”
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