Why it’s go, go, go for Margot
ETHIC OF STAR
Leonardo Dicaprio’s cheek during the audition – that raised her profile in Tinseltown. Margot and Dicaprio were reunited last year in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. She played actress Sharon Tate.
After filming Wall Street, Margot lived in a house in Clapham, South London, where seven friends squeezed in to four bedrooms.
Pals dubbed the home The Manor. Margot was often globetrotting for filming, premieres and awards but loved returning to Clapham, where she had “the best times”. It was here that she hooked up with Surrey-born film-maker Tom Ackerley – now her husband.
The pair married in Australia’s
Byron Bay in 2016 and revealed the news via Instagram, declaring: “We are still roommates.” The newlyweds moved first to West London – then to Los Angeles in 2017. Their €2million five-bedroom pad in Hancock Park is a world away from The Manor. But Margot puts a good chunk of her success down to her time in Clapham.
She and Tom joined forces with housemates Sophia Kerr and Josey Mcnamara to set up their own production company called Luckychap Entertainment. It produced Margot’s critically acclaimed film I, Tonya, about American iceskating outcast Tonya
Harding. And it was in London that she was cast as Jane in the €145million blockbuster The Legend Of Tarzan. But success hasn’t gone to Margot’s head and she refuses to forget her humble beginnings. She says: “I was painfully selfconscious when I was a teenager. I had braces so I would smile and then quickly try to cover them. “I got to that really prepubescent, pubescent age where I was angry for no reason and I was selfconscious and embarrassed and confused. “I feel the person I am today is more similar to the person I was at seven. “I watched movies all the time and would replicate them and make Mom
Margot and hubby Tom watch. I was business-savvy too. I was a little wheeler-dealer. I was stealing my brother’s toys and setting up a store on the side of the road and selling them so I could go buy candy. He was furious.”
Margot has built on that early business acumen with her production company and admits she finds it hard to take her foot off the accelerator.
But she says: “I never complain. I love it. I just want to be on set.”
Margot and Tom even spent their honeymoon at work. “We did I, Tonya instead of our honeymoon,” she says. “Literally, we went straight into filming after we got married.
“There were times we were sitting in a car park in Atlanta in the freezing cold, thinking, ‘We should be on a beach right now. We should be on our honeymoon. What are we doing? Following our dreams’.”
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