Margot Robbie Wants to Direct – IndieWire

Margot Robbie is looking to her following function: supervisor.

The “Barbie” starlet and LuckyChap manufacturer informed Selection that routing is a “dear ambition” of hers to include to her multi-hyphenate abilities. Robbie started LuckyChap, which generated “Barbie” and “Saltburn” in 2023, along with previous Oscar-winning movie “I, Tonya.”

“The tricky thing is, as much as I say I’m strict about saying no as a producer, I also get so excited with all the things that I could produce that it ends up taking up all my time,” Robbie stated. “And as an actor, I get to work with so many brilliant directors and watch them do it — it’s like having a front-row seat to the best master class in the world. So it’s really tempting to keep doing that. But directing is a dear ambition of mine.”

She included of LuckyChap’s slate, “We have a penchant for actress-turned-writer-directors, between Olivia [Wilde], Greta [Gerwig], Emerald [Fennell], and Megan [Park]. It’s our sweet spot. […] We have to be really clear about why we started the company and what our North Star is always going to be. Because any opportunity is exciting. We set out to break barriers with and for female talent, and if it isn’t a project that could potentially do that, then it’s not a project for us.”

Robbie is following verified to be rejoining with “Barbie” co-star Ryan Gosling for an “Ocean’s 11” innovator, and was previously considered to lead a “Pirates of the Caribbean” all-female offshoot movie that has actually given that been shelved. Nonetheless, Robbie lately really felt resolved reports of various other possible tasks she is not connected with.

“I also read so much stuff that’s not true. ‘Margot Robbie’s doing that!’ And I’m like, ‘I’m 100 percent not and I’ve never even heard that,’” Robbie stated. “I know people do that just to whip up a buying frenzy. I mean, we should take it as a compliment.”

Robbie’s LuckyChap was erroneously reported by Web page 6 in November 2023 to be intrigued in acquiring the legal rights to Britney Spears’ narrative “The Woman in Me.” Reese Witherspoon’s Hey there Sunlight and Brad Pitt’s Fallback were likewise provided as feasible manufacturing business circling around the narrative.

“It’s not true,” Robbie stated at the 2023 Selection Power of Female Los Angeles occasion, including when asked if she would certainly ever before take into consideration playing Spears, “It’s not true, it’s not true.”