Margot Robbie Said She Almost Quit Acting After 'Wolf Of Wall Street' Due To Struggling With Fame

The world may have never seen Margot Robbie step into the role of Barbie this year, as the 33-year-old actress once revealed that she almost quit acting after experiencing the “awful” sides of fame following her true breakout role in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, which she starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio back in 2013.

According to a very candid interview with Vanity Fair, the Australian actress – who first found fame in Australian soap Neighbours between 2008 and 2011 before making an even bigger name for herself in The Wolf of Wall Street when she was just 22 years old – said she really struggled to deal with fame, particularly the constant paparazzi attention and the invasion of privacy.

Margot Robbie Talks About The 'Awful' Sides Of Fame

"Something was happening in those early stages, and it was all pretty awful," the Babylon actress recalled, adding that she was concerned for her safety and the safety of her loved ones after starring in the movie. "I remember saying to my mom, 'I don’t think I want to do this.' And she just looked at me, completely straight-faced, and was like, 'Darling, I think it’s too late not to.' That’s when I realized the only way was forward."

The I, Tonya actress said she has gotten slightly better at dealing with the paparazzi, saying: "I know how to go through airports, and now I know who’s trying to [expletive] me over in what ways." She added: "If my mom dies in a car accident because you wanted a photo of me going in the grocery shop, or you knock my nephew off a bike — for what? For a photo? It’s dangerous but still weirdly nothing feels like it changes."

The Amsterdam actress told the pub that she wished that someone had warned her about the good and bad sides of fame at the start of her career, so she knew what she was getting into. "I just wish someone had explained a lot of those things to me early on," she confessed. "I wouldn’t have resented the position I found myself in because I would’ve known what I was getting myself into."

It's not just the paps who the Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood actress slammed in her candid interview, as she also took aim at the press too, recalling one time a story was published about her allegedly leaving friend and model Cara Delevingne's house in tears, which Robbie said was categorically not true.

"I’m not at Cara’s house – I’m outside an Airbnb that I was renting for five days! And I’m not crying!" she exclaimed. "I had something in my eye. I’m trying to grab my face mask, trying to hold a coffee cup, and I couldn’t get a hair out of my eye," she continued.

How Does Margot Robbie Deal With Fame?

However, the actress told the pub that she has since found ways to deal with the bad sides of fame, and essentially it all comes down to trying to find the right balance. "The way I try to explain this job – and this world – to people is that the highs are really high, and the lows are really, really low. And I guess if you’re lucky, it all balances out in the middle," she confessed, before going into a little more detail about the "death threats" she received when she played the role of Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad.

"There’s just all this stuff you learn along the way, like, when you get those death threats," she explained, before saying that she does a lot of research about threats to discover whether she really needs to worry about them.

"It’s [smart] to have a security team do a background check on whoever sent them to see if there is any past history of violence because you’ll need to know whether you need security to go to certain events," she explained, before adding that the aforementioned security doesn’t come cheap. "And every time you do a background check, it’s going to cost $2,000, so take that into consideration when you’re getting yourself into this."