Margot Robbie just revealed that she experienced a case of imposter syndrome before playing Barbie.
The actress, who also produced the blockbuster, recalled in a conversation with writer-director Greta Gerwig how she was in complete panic just before filming started. Barbie.
“I went to Greta’s house and had that crisis. I’ve been trying to get this movie going for years. And all of a sudden we’re going to film the thing,” the 35-year-old actress revealed, adding, “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t know how to do this.’ It happens before every movie I’ve ever made.”
Margot continued, “A few weeks later I’ll have a meltdown thinking, ‘What am I doing? I don’t know how to act. Everyone will suddenly realize that I can’t do any of this, and it will be horrible.’ And then it’s just pure panic.”
She recalled going to Gerwig’s house that time, and her “panic was palpable and debilitating,” saying, “I don’t know how to apply the research I’ve done, and I’ve done all the things, and I still don’t know who she is.”
“It was so hard because it was trying to pick up something that had nothing to hold on to,” Margot said.
“It was like you only had one grape left in your bowl and you’re trying to get it with your fork, and I thought, ‘I can’t get you.’ There’s nothing to hold on to here because she doesn’t have childhood trauma and she doesn’t have all those things that I normally hold on to and then build on. She doesn’t have any of it, and I couldn’t get her,” she further explained.
But Gerwig “helped me through it and pointed me in the right direction, and we talked through it,” Margot Robbie concluded.
