Vogue Australia - 09.2019

(Steven Felgate) #1

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No-one is immune from the power of Margot Robbie. In
a global exclusive, Quentin Tarantino sits down with his leading lady and
reveals that she was first– and only – choice for the biggest film of the year.
Styled by Christine Centenera. Photographed by Mario Sorrenti.

At 29, Margot Robbie has built one of the most impressive nascent careers on screen,
thanks to star turns inThe Wolf of Wall Street,Suicide Squadand, more recently,
I, To nya ,which she also produced. But her new role as actress Sharon Tate, who was
killed in the Charles Manson murders in 1969, is set to propel her to even greater
heights. In Quentin Tarantino’s ninth and penultimate film,Once Upon A Time in ...
Hollywood, Robbie is both mesmerising and energetic opposite her one-time film
star neighbour Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double
Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who are clinging to the final days of cinema’s golden age.
On a recent Friday in Los Angeles, Tarantino, the Academy Award-, Golden
Globe- and BAFTA-winning director, sat down with Robbie to discuss her own
Hollywood fairytale and how fate played a part in bringing the two together. →

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