Margot Robbie appears to have had ‘main character energy’ well before playing the role of Barbie.
In a recent interview, the Aussie actress admitted she once decided to fake her death in an attempt to scare away a babysitter.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, the star explained her bizarre prank and elaborate plan.
“We got a new babysitter and I wanted my old babysitter back, Talia, who was like 16 and I thought she was so cool,” Robbie said in a clip shared on Instagram.
Watch the video above.
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“We got this much older lady in, and I was just not happy about it. And she told me to go have a bath and I didn’t want to, and she was very cranky and I thought, ‘I’m going to show you.'”
Robbie didn’t shy away from making the prank as believable as possible.
“I got a big kitchen knife and the ketchup and I sprawled out naked on the tiles, covered myself in ketchup, put the kitchen knife [there], and I waited like 45 minutes for her to find me,” she said.
“But it was worth the wait.”
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The actress and producer confirmed the babysitter rushed from the house screaming, while her Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling, 42, joked that Robbie had “produced [her] own death.”
After recalling a second incident, in which she faked a fall at a shopping centre, prompting fellow shoppers to ring for an ambulance, Robbie admitted she was “a bit of a dramatic child”.
Robbie’s dramatic persona didn’t end at her childhood, and clearly with her impressive acting portfolio, it appears it’s doing her a world of good.
The Wolf of Wall Street star’s incline towards drama also extends beyond her on-screen roles, with her Barbie co-stars recently revealing a bizarre rule she had while on the set of the film.Barbie.
“Margot had this pink day once a week, where everyone had to wear something pink. And if you didn’t, you were fined,” Gosling told People in an interview published last week.
Gosling, who plays Ken in the movie, added Robbie “would go around collecting the fines, and she would donate it to a charity.”
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“What was really special was just how excited the male crew members were,” he said, adding, “at the end of the film, they all got together and, with their own money, made pink crew shirts with a rainbow fringe.”
The pink dress code, he says, was an opportunity for the cast and crew “to show their respect and admiration for what Margot and Greta [Gerwig, Barbie director] were creating.”
Barbie is in cinemas now.
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