She was flawless as Elizabeth I in the film Mary Queen Of Scots, but Aussie actress Margot Robbie, 32 was hardly a shoo-in for the part.
Director Josie Rourke says that due to Margot’s sultry scenes in The Wolf Of Wall Street – in one she was nude – crew members were unconvinced she could play Elizabeth.
At last week’s Power of Film symposium, Josie said: ‘In their heads she was probably lodged more as a sex symbol figure than she was as Elizabeth I. But I made the argument for it.’
Margot might not have transformed Queen Bess into a pin-up… but she did get a Bafta nomination.
She was flawless as Elizabeth I in the film Mary Queen Of Scots, but Aussie actress Margot Robbie, 32 was hardly a shoo-in for the part
Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I in Mar Queen of Scots
Johnny Depp is heading behind the camera to direct a film about artist Amedeo Modigliani.
But could the actor’s art become more sought after than the famous Italian’s?
Depp, 59, has just sold £4.5 million worth of his paintings, including images of Bob Marley and Heath Ledger, all in a week, through Mayfair’s Castle Fine Art gallery.
Spice boy Tom
Actor Tom Hardy (left), 45, is investing in Kurk (right), a firm that promotes the spice curcumin as an anti-inflammatory
