December 27, 2017
Australian actress Margot Robbie, who is a frontrunner in the
race to the Oscars in Best Actress category, has revealed that she wanted to
surprise her fans with this movie.
According to Contactmusic.com, the
27-year-old actress feels that the characters in the movie are amazing, so
flawed and wrong and you can see a bit of yourself in them at times.
The
'Suicide Squad' star said, "You've got the mockumentary feeling, the very dark
comedy, real life events, real life people. You've got an event people remember,
but have very strong feelings about. These characters are amazing, so flawed and
wrong, and yet you empathise with them in a weird way. You can see a bit of
yourself in them at times. There was a real opportunity to surprise people."
She also opened up about a bigger challenge that she had to face while
shooting the movie.
She shared that the biggest challenge for her was
learning how to ice skate, adding, "I did four months of training, five days a
week, four hours a day."
"On Christmas Eve, I was at the rink. And now I
actually really miss it. I kept my ice skates, but I said goodbye to a whole
world of pain that I didn't realise came along with figure skating," Robbie
said.
The 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' star noted that she also enjoyed
stepping up to play a lead role.
She explained, "It's the first time
where the title is also my character's name. I have never done that before. I
was Jane in Tarzan. And I wasn't the Wolf of Wall Street, Leo was. This was the
first time that I really had the weight of the film on my shoulders."
Based on unbelievable but true events, the film is a darkly comedic tale of
American figure skater, Tonya and one of the most sensational scandals in sports
history.
Tonya was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in
competition, her legacy was ruined by her association with an infamous attack on
fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan in 1994.