Margot Robbie reveals how Rachel McAdams' The Notebook audition helped Barbie star land major roles
Margot Robbie has credited Rachel McAdams' audition for The Notebook with helping her land major acting roles.
Margot Robbie has credited Rachel McAdams with helping her land all her major roles.
The 35-year-old star - who has appeared in the likes of Barbie, Wuthering Heights and The Wolf of Wall Street over her illustrious career - was inspired by her fellow actress' audition for The Notebook, and watched it back before her own auditions.
She told BBC Radio 2: "I used to watch Rachel McAdams’ audition for The Notebook before I would go to auditions.
"She’s so good, and she’s so charming and real, and like, in it. I used to watch it before I’d go to an audition, I was like, ‘OK, just try and be as good as her.’ ”
Margot was asked if The Notebook audition actually ever helped her win a role, and she insisted that's true of "any part" she landed.
She explained: "Technically, you could say any part I got would’ve been in thanks to her because I was always watching her audition before.
"It’s just the commitment. I always watched it to remind myself that you have to fully commit in the audition room."
The pair got to work together in Richard Curtis' 2013 time travel rom com About Time, and it only reaffirmed Margot's respect for how the Send Help star works.
She recalled: "I got to work with her in About Time. I had a small role, and she’s the lead in it.
"I was absolutely no one back then and she was so lovely to me and my brother. I’ll never forget how she’d go out of her way to be so kind. I just love her.”
Margot is best known for her on-screen work but she also co-owns production company LuckyChap Entertainment, and she previously insisted her two jobs are very different.
Asked if pitching a new film feels like auditioning for a role during the Hollywood Reporter's Actresses Round Table, she said: "It feels like selling. It feels like I’m a con artist convincing everyone that something insane is actually going to work.
"Whereas auditioning feels like … The funny thing is, I’m not good at lying. And people are like, 'Don’t you lie for a living?' No, I’ve never seen acting as that.
"I feel like acting is making something so incredibly truthful, and making it sound like the most honest thing that could ever come out of your mouth.
"Whereas pitching, it’s not lying, either, but it’s a lot of promising something you don’t actually know."
