Margot Robbie has recalled being offered a job at Hooters when she was just 16 years old.
The Babylon movie star, whose first major TV role came when she was 17 and landed the part of Donna Freedman in Neighbours, could have taken on a different career after getting spotted during filming for an advert.
The 32-year-old actress appeared in a commercial for the chain in Australia, which is well known for its scantily-glad serving staff, and caught the eye of bosses.
‘I was in a Hooters commercial, not as a Hooters girl but as someone eating Hooters,’ she recalled in an interview with NME.
Although she wasn’t paid for her work on the ad, Margot did get offered the chance to work for the restaurant chain.
‘At the end of the day, they offered me a job,’ she added. ‘And I was like, ‘I think this is where my career is going and I’m going to end up working at Hooters. That’s cool.” ‘
Instead, she found herself on Neighbours and moved to Melbourne to appear on the show, but at the time, she didn’t have any friends in the city.
She told the Sunday Express’ Sunday Magazine: ‘Everyone on that show I was really close with, and not just because I spent that amount of time with them, but because I was 17 when I started living in Melbourne. To me, that was the big smoke. I didn’t know anyone.’
Meanwhile, Margot recently had a very different blast from the past when her childhood friends crashed a red carpet interview and shouted ‘Hey, maggot!’ – her lifelong nickname – at the Babylon premiere in Sydney, Australia.
She previously revealed she’s had the moniker since the age of six due to a substitute teacher mispronouncing her first name, and she’s amazed it is still being talked about more than two decades later.
She told The Project: ‘That has been my nickname since I was six years old. I think a substitute teacher made a mistake on the roll call and said “maggot” and everyone love laughed. You can’t pick a nickname – you get given it.’
SOURCE: metro.co.uk
