FILMS YOU PRODUCE ARE LIKE YOUR BABY: ROBBIE

Actor Margot Robbie has said that she feels more involved in a project when she is also producing it. The 28-year-old actor turned producer with the biographical drama I, Tonya (2017), for which she had received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

“It actually works hand in hand with acting. I assumed it would be more of a conflict of interests, trying to split myself between the two roles. But actually, I feel like it made me better at each job, being so involved,” Robbie told Flickering Myth.

“And actually it does give me something I don’t get just from acting... you know, feeling like, ‘Oh, that’s our project’, as opposed to I got to be a part of someone’s project,” she added.

The actor also said that there is a far greater “emotional investment” in a project when she is attached to it from the beginning to the end. “When you’re there from the inception of the idea, to the development, to the preproduction, to the production — you’re there as an actor — to post-production, marketing, distribution... all that kind of stuff, you live with it for years.

“And after years, it’s like your baby and you have a greater sense of ownership over it. And therefore, a greater emotional investment, I think,” Robbie said.

THE 28YEAROLD ACTOR TURNED PRODUCER WITH THE BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA I, TONYA (2017)

PHOTO: VALERIE MACON/AFP Margot Robbie had been nominated for an Oscar this year for I, Tonya