Margot Robbie Is 'Going to Win an Academy Award' for 'Babylon', Raves Costar Eric Roberts

Mar. 15, 2025

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“She blew me away,” Roberts added. “I couldn’t believe how brilliant every minute of every day she was.”

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Last Tuesday, Robbieopened up about her preference for exhausting and difficult rolesforWSJ. Magazine’s cover profile for the November Innovator’s Issue.

“I’m a masochist,” she told the magazine.

Adding that no matter how daunting or draining a role —Tonya Hardingin 2017’sI, Tonyawould seem to certainly count — the actress “can always find a fifth gear.”

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This will be the Oscar-winning director’s longest film yet: 2014’sWhiplashis 106 minutes, 2016’sLa La Landis 128 minutes, and 2018’sFirst Manis 141 minutes.

The film is, according to an official synopsis, “a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess” that “traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.”

Chazelle previously toldVanity Fairthis film is “definitely the hardest thing I’ve done.” He explained, “Just the logistics of it, the number of characters, the scale of the set pieces, the span of time that the movie charts — it all conspired to make it particularly challenging, but it was a challenge that was pretty exciting to take on.”

source: people.com