![]() ![]() “It wasn’t like, ‘Guess I’ll go to America!’ For two years while I was finishing my contract on ‘Neighbours,’ I was carefully setting things up,” the actress said. There, Robbie began plotting an exit strategy. After appearing on TV commercials and taking odd jobs such as “sandwich artist” at a local Subway, Robbie lucked into roles on a couple of indie movies then relocated to Melbourne at 17, where she picked up work as a series regular on the long-running Australian soap opera “Neighbours.” “My Aussie breeding had prepared me well for that.”Ī native of Australia’s Gold Coast, Robbie grew up surfing and playing beach cricket but incubated her ambitions of Hollywood stardom as a young child by memorizing dialogue from old VHS tapes - 1993’s “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” providing a libretto for early dining room performances. “Amazing how easy it went down at 9 in the morning,” Robbie said with a grin. ![]() But after downing three shots, she was ready for the scene. Unbeknownst to director Scorsese, a crew member on the movie’s Brooklyn set suggested some liquid courage might calm her jitters and popped out to a 24-hour liquor store to buy the actress a small bottle of tequila. But then to play off the people who are tongue-tied, trying to talk to her because she’s so beautiful, she understands how to downplay moments to get the maximum impact.”Įnsconced in a Beverly Hills hotel suite, slogging through a long day of media engagements, and just hours after arriving from Australia where she spent the winter holiday with family, Robbie kicked off her Christian Louboutin heels and curled up on a sofa to describe what went into filming her nude scene in “Wolf.” The first and only time Robbie has bared all before the camera, she said, “it was stressing me out for months leading up to it.” And when co-star Jonah Hill first sees Robbie’s Naomi (nicknamed “the Duchess” in “Wolf”), his corporate character becomes unhinged in the middle of a crowded pool party.Īs Winter put it, “she’s incredibly gorgeous, which lends itself to the obvious stuff. ![]() ![]() DiCaprio’s first assignation with her character ends prematurely, hilariously, disastrously. In “Wolf,” Robbie is deployed like sexual napalm, more in the service of risqué comedy rather than eye candy. PHOTOS: Scorsese’s musical scores in his films She’s the rare glamazon who “gets it” in a way that recalls “There’s Something About Mary"-era Cameron Diaz. With her bombshell looks and cheeky demeanor, Robbie, 23, comes across as unattainable yet somehow approachable. ![]()
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