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Sun 19 October 2025 4:30, UK
By now, Margot Robbie’s bucket list must be busy with ticks. She’s done things people around the world grow up dreaming about as she’s climbed the ladder to become one of the best-known names and faces on the screen. But she’s not done yet.
Where to even begin with the many golden opportunities Robbie has harnessed?
Her fourth role came in the form of a Martin Scorsese flick, for one, seeing her take on the iconic character of Naomi Lapaglia in the huge The Wolf Of Wall Street. After that, more than made her name, she’s moved on to other goals, like getting a ‘Best Actress’ Oscar nomination for I, Tonya, starting her own hugely successful production company, and then later returning to the Oscars with a ‘Best Picture’ nominee, both thanks to her acting and her production role on Barbie.
That’s only just scratching the surface. Robbie by now has taken on a bunch of powerful roles, as well as working with some of the greats, including Scorsese but also Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Richard Curtis, Greta Gerwig and more.
It’s a career of dreams as she prepares to star in and produce an Emerald Fennell movie; it shows no sign of slowing or stopping, as the actor still has dreams and goals she wants to achieve.
In particular, she had goals to do with celebrating and sharing the screen with more homegrown Australian talent, telling FilmInk, “I’ve being dying to work with Andrew Dominik” as one of the directors she’s still determined to collaborate with. Baz Luhrmann would be another one as she said, “Baz Luhrmann would be one of those bucket list sort of things.”
In terms of other actors, she said, Cate Blanchett has always been my absolute acting “idol”. But there’s one man that she went as far as to say she’s mutated herself just to work alongside him.
“Ben Mendelssohn…I would chop off my right hand to work with him,” she said, so everyone, please safely remove the knives from Robbie’s vicinity.
It feels somewhat like a random one. Mendelssohn is well known, but mostly in the world of superhero flicks, thanks to his role as Talos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Perhaps this is Robbie saying she’s ready to surrender to the MCU and come back to the world of portraying comic book characters. But perhaps it’s more than she’s a fan of Mendelssohn’s other work, like his roles in 2010’s Animal Kingdom, which made his name.
Mostly, though, Robbie and Mendelssohn’s connection is one of a shared past. Both of them did the absolute Australian rite of passage by starring in the soap opera, Neighbours, so it seems that, really, good neighbours do become good friends who want to star in a serious movie together next.
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