ROBBIE’S ROLE A PAIN IN THE ICE
GOLD Coast actor Margot Robbie has revealed she had “tears streaming down my face” behind the scenes of her role as ice queen Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.
The 27-year-old told W Magazine she did not realise the pain that came along with figure skating.
“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,” she said.
“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.
“There’s no padding when you hit the ice. Our choreographer was never sympathetic. When I fell, she was like, ‘Come on, get up. Let’s go.’ One time I had a huge fall, and she said, ‘That was a real skater fall, and you can have a minute.’ I was so proud, with tears streaming down my face.”
Robbie plays disgraced former Olympic ice skater Tonya, who was convicted of a plot to attack her rival, skater Nancy Kerrigan.
Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee in 1994 – just one month before the Winter Olympics – leaving her unable to compete.
Robbie said after playing Tonya she had the opportunity to see things from her character’s perspective.
“The more I became Tonya, the more I saw things from her point of view. I’m on her side 100 per cent,” she said.