Margot Robbie on Kissing Brad Pitt in Babylon | W Magazine

I've seen people's Halloween costumes of characters that I've played and it's so cool because no one, and I mean no one, loves dressing up more than I do. Ask any of my friends, any time I'm having a party, they're like, oh god, what's the theme? We're all going to have to dress up, aren't we? Yes. I had a Love Island themed birthday party last year, just right before we started shooting Babylon actually. Everyone had to dress like Love Island contestants and we did all the Love Island games. We had like a video room, like the diary room, yeah, there was a lot of fake tan and hair extensions and acrylic nails and I was just like a Love Island contestant. I didn't pick anyone in particular. I couldn't, it'd be like picking a favorite child. I could never, I could never, there's too many, too many to choose from. Today we're going to talk about Babylon. I got the script for Babylon and I've never quite felt that way about a script ever. I felt like I had to do it, I had to be a part of it. My team were a little bit startled because I was frantic about getting a meeting with Damien, frantic. At one point I suggested just showing up at his house and they were like, no, it's okay, I think he's down to me, we don't need to be so extreme. I was just like, I just have to play this character, she's mine, she's mine. So the character I play in Babylon is a fictional character, Nellie LaRoy, she added the La. I definitely drew on a lot of real life people for inspiration and building her backstory and her childhood, primarily Clara Bow, who had a really particularly horrible childhood. My character Nellie, she's a huge force of energy. She's an undeniable raw talent. She's untrained but she's the new it girl, but she doesn't have morals, that's something she doesn't have. She does tons of drugs and has sex and parties and she just doesn't really take care of herself. Playing a crazy girl isn't, weirdly, you'd be surprised to hear, isn't difficult for me. I find I have things in common. She doesn't wear a lot of clothes. She knows that the shock factor works for her, so she goes for that. So even if it's something unexpected like wearing a pair of overalls with no top on, actually there's a picture of Clara Bow wearing a pair of overalls with no top on sitting on a rock. No bra, no top, nothing except the overalls. That's one of the main costumes I wear in the film and I have to fight a rattlesnake in it and roll around in the desert and go to a party and have a fight and be piggybacked on the back of a football and I didn't have much to cover up with, so it was lucky that it was Nellie because that's her thing. I started on a soap kissing scene. Yeah, on a soap you're hooking up with everyone. On and off camera, everyone's hooking up with everyone. My character was married by the time she was 18, I think, so I can't remember the first on-camera kiss I would have had. In Babylon, Nellie kisses a lot of people. I was doing a scene, a party scene, it wasn't in the script. Nellie comes up and goes up to Brad's character and Catherine Waterstone's character and I was like, fuck it, I'm just going to kiss them, let's see what happens. They were a little bit shocked. Both their faces were like, what just happened? I think I'm still starstruck working with the people. Even when I've worked with people before, I'm still like, oh wow, that's Brad Pitt, that's amazing. I'm a Cancer, but I don't really identify as a Cancer, to be honest with you. Why is that? I don't know so much about star sign kind of characteristics, but everything I've ever heard about Cancers doesn't sound like me and I've checked and double checked my rising signs and all that kind of stuff and it's all Cancer. I think I'm like triple Cancer. And I even checked with my mum that she didn't get my birth date wrong, which she was very offended by. She was like, of course I know the day you were born. I was like, it's okay if you don't, you had a lot going on at the time, lots of other kids, you're busy. Well, I hear that Cancers are very sensitive, wear their emotions on their sleeve and are real homebodies. But I hate being at home and I'm not particularly sensitive and I don't really wear my emotions on my sleeve.