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We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Exclusive. Sign-up. Olivia Anne Cleary. While investigating the true story, we discovered that Margot Robbie did portions of her own skating, but the more complicated parts were done by experts. Teacher sent 'vile' video of incest and sexual references to nine-year-olds studying at home by mistake... Margot Robbie on Reliving Tonya Harding's "Abuse" and Her Superhero Stalker Fears | Hollywood Reporter. Margot Robbie has some big shoes (or should we say skates?) 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Robbie wasn't the only one who had to learn how to ice skate as Harding for I, Tonya. Her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, played by Sebastian Stan, payed a heavy to break Nancy's legs. Margot Robbie adored the script for I, Tonya, the bonkers, ultimately dismaying film about the American figure skater Tonya Harding and the 1994 attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan. Q: We just saw “I, Tonya,” and I was wondering how much of the skating Margot Robbie actually did. Photo: 30West As a girl, whenever I heard about the disgraced Olympic figure skater and tabloid staple Tonya Harding, I … Margot Robbie is at her best as skater Tonya Harding (Picture: Entertainment One) This Oscar nominated drama is based on the true story of 80’s and 90’s ice skater Tonya Harding. Beautiful blonde: Former figure skater Tonya, 47, and Margot only met on a few occasions. 'You could read a script and almost pull them out and nothing else would be affected,' she told THR. Before I, Tonya, Margot Robbie could not ice skate, so playing the Olympic athlete required a lot of behind-the-scenes training, four months' worth to be exact. So she thought navigating figure skating to embody Tonya … But he botched the attack, leaving the ice star badly bruised but still able to compete. 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Dark side: The 27-year-old talked about reliving the 'abuse' the athlete suffered at the hands of her mother, played by Allison Janney, and husband, played by Sebastian Stan. For Margot Robbie, becoming Tonya Harding for her new film I, Tonya required more than just a little training. For the skating scenes that make up much of the film’s drama, director Craig Gillespie painstakingly re-created five of Harding’s performances, including her routines at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. Now, Margot Robbie, who looked batsh*t crazy in Suicide Squad, has completely transformed once more for her latest role as infamous ice skater Tonya Harding for the biopic I, Tonya. Play now. http://bit.ly/THRSubscribe Stay in The Know With all Things Hollywood, Subscribe to THR News! In “I, Tonya,” Margot Robbie steps into the ice skates of the infamously rough-around-the-edges Olympian Tonya Harding, a role that required on-ice believability. No amount of training could have prepared Robbie to even attempt such a trick on the ice. Margot Robbie is no stranger to morphing her body for a role, as her booty shorts-rocking character in 2016's Suicide Squad proved. Actress Margot Robbie plays Tonya Harding in a film about her life and role in the attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan as they prepared for the 1994 Winter Olympics Margot produced the movie via her LuckyChap Entertainment banner, which she founded in 2014 with her husband of one year, Tom Ackerley, and a couple of their friends. And she said she wished someone had explained to her that that's what comes with the turf. Margot Robbie has some big shoes (or should we say skates?) I, Tonya is already generating some Oscar buzz, and if all goes well, Robbie should be skating off into awards season come 2018. Wealthy members of £25,000-a-year Knightsbridge-based travel concierge service are being flown to the United... Pope Francis, 84, receives his first dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, Love keeping fit but your body finding it tricky? "Even if I had 10 years to practice, I could never do a triple axel. Margot Robbie reveals horror injury from I, Tonya skating: 'My arms started going numb' MARGOT Robbie paid her dues in blood, sweat and tears for her starring role in I, Tonya. She learned the hard way that wheels and ice blades are quite different. They set up LuckyChap Entertainment with two pals iun 2014 and I, Tonya was their first project. On the ice: Tonya, played by Margot, gets bad news from a law enforcement officer while she's with ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, played by Sebastian Stan. The biopic tells Tonya's rise and fall surrounding the infamous 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan before the Winter Olympics. Before I, Tonya, Margot Robbie could not ice skate, so playing the Olympic athlete required a lot of behind-the-scenes training, four months' worth to be exact. Margot Robbie saves the ice-skating biopic I, Tonya from sheer sensationalism. However, Margot did take the part of scantily clad supervillain Harley Quinn in 2016 blockbuster Suicide Squad. The hardest part of training and filming the ice skating for Robbie and director Craig Gillespie was when it came time to tackle Harding's signature move: the triple axel. Share. Margot Robbie speaks about her new role in I, Tonya IF ANY of Margot Robbie’s movies were hated by the critics or flopped at the box office, she could easily blame it on someone else. The map that shows Britain could be beating Covid: Boris delays lockdown tightening as England's outbreak... UK bans ALL travellers from PORTUGAL as well as South America, Panama and Cape Verde from TOMORROW at 4am to... Lockdown rules may be needed until the AUTUMN: Professor Neil Ferguson warns easing of restrictions will be... NHS asks hospitals to open hundreds more ICU beds to take in patients from areas worst hit by Covid as data... Police quiz finance boss of Oxford Covid vaccine firm after he drives 250 miles to his second home 'in... DIY schooling: Furious parents claim teachers are only using Zoom to do the register and read stories, or... Why DO experts say Britain's Covid outbreak is slowing if the death toll is continuing to soar? The 27-year-old talked about reliving the 'abuse' the athlete suffered in a cover story for The Hollywood Reporter in which she appeared with Tonya, 47, due out Thursday. It happens every other year: in a sea of great performances, one familiar actor or actress comes out of nowhere with a career-defining performance that has heads turning. by Mia Galuppo. (Photo: 30West) Tierney: When you’re shooting with the handheld cameras and Steadicams and … No, I don't know how to ice skate, we didn't do that," she said in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight. How Margot Robbie Learned to Skate Like Tonya Harding for 'I, Tonya' 9:00 AM 1/8/2018. By Ryan Gilbey. I needed help," Robbie told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival, via Popsugar. Balancing that she's also starring as Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen Of Scots, set in the mid 1500s, due out November 2. She told the magazine, she and Tonya had met only briefly before shooting began and that they watched the movie together at its Los Angeles premiere in early December. Fewer than 10 people have performed a triple axel in competition, but here’s how two skaters and two effects crews got Margot Robbie to do it on-screen. For the skating scenes that make up much of the film’s drama, director Craig Gillespie painstakingly re-created five of Harding’s performances, including her routines at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. 15:35, 16 FEB 2018; Updated 22:34, 16 FEB 2018; Movies. To prepare for the skating scenes, Robbie … Robbie, however, didn't grow up ice skating. Photo: Getty Sign Up. Margot Robbie in I, TONYA In the I, Tonya teaser, Robbie uncannily mimics her voice, summarizing Harding’s plight with the public eye. EXCLUSIVE: Andy Murray tests positive for Covid-19 days before he is due to fly to Melbourne for the... Free to enter with NO Covid checks: Travellers from South Africa and virus hotspots reveal they are walking... Confusion as Priti Patel appears on This Morning and tells viewers they should exercise ALONE despite... Brazil's COVID deaths soar back to their first wave peak of over 1,000 a day as new 'more infectious' strain... 'I'm holding him responsible for this mess!' She has received nominations from the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Spirits and the Film Independent Spirit Awards for her role in I, Tonya...and there's talk of Oscars recognition. In 1991, she was ranked first in the country, winning the U.S. Championships, after landing the first triple axel in competition. Share ; By. Margot Robbie has been nominated for an Oscar, for her role in I, Tonya.. Via IMP Awards. Margot Robbie revealed what disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding thinks of "I, Tonya" and apparently, she likes the film. Margot Robbie adored the script for “I, Tonya,” the bonkers, ultimately dismaying film about the American figure skater Tonya Harding and the 1994 attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan. to fill as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, because let's face it - regardless of where her morals lie, Harding was an incredible ice skater. Don't mess with her: Margot certainly made her mark as scantily clad supervillain Harley Quinn in 2016 blockbuster Suicide Squad. Another thing you should know about Margot Robbie in I, Tonya is that she really did learn to skate. With her alter-ego: Margot Robbie revealed it was 'emotionally traumatic' to play abused and disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, right, in  I, Tonya, in a cover story for THR on Thursday. But she wasn't ready for the superstar status that came with it - or the stalkers and death threats that now force her to spend a lot of money on personal security. YOU won't recognise Margot Robbie in amazing new pictures from I, Tonya, the new ice skating movie about disgraced Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding. As Tonya Harding in the irreverent biographical drama I, Tonya, Margot Robbie had to embody one of the best-known Olympic figure skaters of all time — both on and off the ice. She was just the second female ice skater ever to nail a triple axel in competition, and, according to a The New York Times, she had been practicing the move for seven years. I, Tonya: Surprise reason why Margot Robbie skating scene as Tonya Harding needed CGI I, TONYA features an impressive skating trick that needed CGI - for an unexpected reason. The comments below have not been moderated. 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