"They lost it": Margot Robbie's surprise encounter with Barbie fans
Margot Robbie has recalled a sweet story about when she overheard a group of men talking about the Barbie movie, before giving them the surprise of their life.
At a screening of the Barbie movie in Los Angeles, the Aussie actress told the audience of the heartwarming moment she encountered in Scotland, shortly after the film's release last July.
At the SAG-AFTRA screening of the blockbuster movie, Robbie began, “I had this brilliant experience.”
“I was in a pub in the middle of nowhere in Scotland and I listened for about 30 minutes to a group of guys on a bachelor party discussing the Barbie movie, not knowing that I was sitting two or three feet away from them.”
Robbie continued, “It was just truly fascinating. There were people at the table who refused to see the Barbie movie."
“One guy was like, ‘Dude, it is a cultural moment, don’t you want to be a part of culture?’ And the other guy was like, ‘I’ll never see it,’ and by the end he did want to see it. It was a whole thing."
“I wasn’t going to go up to them, but then I did.”
Before leaving the pub, Robbie casually waltzed up to the group of men who “lost it” when they discovered Barbie herself had overheard their conversation.
“At the last minute as I was walking out I went to their table and I went ‘Thank you for seeing the Barbie movie’,” she added.
“It was very funny, they lost it. It took a full minute for them to realise and I was practically out the door and they went ‘Ohhhh’.
“People’s reactions to the movie have been the biggest reward of this entire experience.”
The heartwarming story comes fresh on the heels of Margot being snubbed for a Best Actress nomination at this year's Oscars for the Barbie movie, which caused an uproar on social media.
Margot addressed the snub at the LA screening, saying there's “no way to feel sad when you’re this blessed.”
“Obviously, I think Greta should be nominated as a director,” she added.
“What she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing. What she pulled off, it really is."
“We set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact. And it’s already done that and some, way more than we ever dreamt it would. And that is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this.”
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