Margot Robbie doesn't understand why her and Brad Pitt’s movie Babylon was a box office flop

Margot Robbie is clueless as to why her and Brad Pitt’s movie ‘Babylon’ was a box office flop.

The 34-year-old actress and the 60-year-old Hollywood star starred as Nellie LaRoy and Jack Conrad in Damien Chazelle’s 2022 historical black comedy drama, and the ‘Barbie’ star still can’t fathom why it wasn’t such a big hit with cinemagoers and is still hopeful that it will follow in the footsteps of 1994 prison drama ‘Shawshank Redemption’ and become a cult classic years later.

During an appearance on the 'Talking Pictures' podcast, host Ben Mankiewicz said he couldn't understand why people disliked the flick – which made an abysmal $64.9 million worldwide - so much.

Margot agreed: “I am still saying that. “I love it.”

She continued: “I know I am biased because I am very close to the project and I obviously believe in it, but I still can’t figure out why people hated it.

“I wonder if in 20 years people are going to be like, ‘Wait, Babylon didn’t do well at the time?’ Like when you hear that Shawshank Redemption was a failure at the time and you’re like, ‘How is that possible?’”

Margot has recently signed up to star in Oscar-winning writer Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation.

The ‘Birds of Prey’ star will appear in the upcoming film alongside ‘Saltburn’ star Jacob Elordi, 27, with the pair set to play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in the latest film version of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, as per Variety.

Jacob’s signing means the movie will be packed with stars who featured in 38-year-old Emerald’s ‘Saltburn’ film – and its star Barry Keoghan, 32, is also said to be interested in a part.

The movie will be written, directed and produced by Emerald, who is reuniting with Margot and her husband Tom Ackerley’s production company LuckyChap on the project – the firm behind her 2020 film ‘Promising Young Woman’, which won the writer an Oscar for best original screenplay.