Margot Robbie’s sprint in the industry over the last decade has been startling. From making her first big screen appearance in About Time (2013), a feelgood movie with a serious undertone and some emotional highs, eventually rising to stardom by starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2015’s Martin Scorsese’s classic The Wolf of Wall Street, consequently creating a buzz to her name. Since then the actor’s cruise through the industry escalated by portraying a plethora of characters over the years alongside landing the role of Harley Quinn.
With the tidings of her name being attached to the much-awaited Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, people were assured to encounter another mystic performance by the Australian blonde but it seems things turned out a little divergent.
also read: “Babylon Review: Pure Adrenaline Pumping Cinema”
Babylon bombs at the domestic box-office
One of the most ambitious projects of the year Babylon, directed by the academy award winner Damien Chazelle, comprises a prodigious cast consisting of Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, and Diego Calva alongside Margot Robbie. The movie appeared too substantial to fail but guess the unforeseen occurred.
Even though the movie did acquire Golden Globe nominations, it wasn’t able to entice the masses in the cinemas. as the fans erupted and started inculpating everything starting from the first divisive impressions before its release, hovering over its explicit and depraved plot and bad weather sweeping the US, the movie failed to capture the audience into the cinemas with an awful $4.85 million four day start with a budget of $80 million.
The Harley Quinn star succumbs to an online rant
As people started inculpating various figures for the movie’s awful start from bad weather to divisive reviews, there have been some articles singling out one of the actors, Margot Robbie.
Margot Robbie takes the heat for the failure of this ambitious project as some call out that her name doesn’t hold enough star power to appeal to the masses after her consecutive box office bombs of the year. Stating “Margot Robbie flopped with Amsterdam and now Babylon,” wrote one person on social media, while another headline read: “Margot Robbie’s latest movie, Babylon, bombs at the box office.”
Correspondingly fans were not jolly about this breakout and came forward in support of the actress moreover raising questions about why the actor takes the fall for the failure while the academy award winners David Chazelle and Brad Pitt were left out, quoting “relatively unscathed”
To be fair Margot Robbie was not first billed in either Amsterdam (Christian Bale) nor Babylon (Brad Pitt) so while she is clearly having a bad BO streak, it is frustrating that the first billed men AND the male directors don’t get a fraction of the vitriol she gets. https://t.co/KI91G78WtH pic.twitter.com/S7XD0TEOq4
— Phantom (@effoff1988) December 26, 2022
Can you imagine thinking Margot Robbie is the reason Amsterdam and Babylon flopped?
— Adriano Na’vi Caporusso (@AdriCaporusso) December 27, 2022
That's what's called Hollywood misogyny, they always protect their male actors male Abuser's included, let this be a rude Awakening for Margot Robbie who thinks she's part of the
"Hollywood boys club" she's not, as Hollywood would always protect their male stars not females.— ¥Judy¥ (@judyju18) December 26, 2022
This. So much of the “BABYLON BOMBED!” narrative has been centered around Margot Robbie “not being a movie star/a draw” and yet… Brad Pitt, an Oscar winner who has been in the biz twice as long as her and was first billed, has come out relatively unscathed? Huh? https://t.co/8EszGbGV2v
— Zoë Rose Bryant (@ZoeRoseBryant) December 26, 2022
Blaming Margot Robbie for being the reason why Babylon flopped is dumb as hell. First of all, movie stars don't really draw people to the theaters as much as they used to. Which brings me to my second point: IT'S COMPETING WITH AVATAR! pic.twitter.com/n9Z3i6ii4I
— Nice Dude Movie Night (@nicedudemovies) December 27, 2022
Even though the movie didn’t open with immense triumphant, Margot Robbie rises to the occasion with her performance. Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy, an uprising silent film star who believes someone is either a star or they’re not. despite starring alongside the industry greats, Robbie takes the cake with her mesmerizing performance eventually proving why she is one of the best of this era.
Babylon is playing in theatres
Source: Deadline
