Insight with Chris Van Vliet - Margot Robbie Says She's A John Cena Fan & REVEALS How She Can Cry On Command!

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

Margot Robbie is an actress known for her roles in movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad, I Tonya, Bombshell and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. Her new movie Babylon (@babylonmovie) comes out on December 23, 2022. Chris Van Vliet sits down with her and Diego Calva to talk about working with director Damien Chazelle on this film, the moment that made them want to become actors, the idea that performances live on forever, how Margot Robbie is able to cry on command and more! For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All systems are going. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blitz! Well, what do you say we do this thing? Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight. I'm Chris Van Vleet. So excited to have you back with us and so excited to sit down once again with Margot Robbie. She is just one of the sweetest people on the face of the planet. And it just doesn't seem fair that someone is this talented as well.

Think of the movie she's been in. The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad, I Tanya, Bombshell, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I mean, that's just naming a few of them. And she has a new movie coming out on December 23rd called Babylon. It's directed by Damien Chazelle. And I mean, think of the movies that he's directed. Whiplash, which I loved, La La Land, First Man, so good. So I can't wait for you to see Babylon when it comes out on December 23rd.

And I was honored for this interview to sit down with not only Margot, but also her co-star from the movie, Diego Calva. So share this episode with someone who you think might love this. And tag the movie, tag at Babylon movie. Tag me at Chris Van Fleet so we can share this out. Speaking of tagging, thank you for continuing to tag me and insight in those Spotify wrapped posts that you have. I mean, it's just been so cool seeing the show at number one or in your top five of all

the podcast that you've listened to this year. Crazy. I started this again a few weeks ago. We're reading out one review on every single episode as my way to say, thank you for being on this ride with me. So a big shout out to Drew Meister-07, who left this review on Apple Podcasts that says, Favorite Podcast. Chris, I love your work. You do so many good podcasts. I enjoy every single one, and I love seeing your content on social media. I hope that you gain more success as you go further in your career. Well, thank you so much, Drew. I appreciate the kind words. And also thank you for not only leaving a review, but thank you for following me on social media, Drew. I appreciate that. TikTok, you just hit 170,000 followers, which for me is a lot. So if you're on TikTok and you haven't

followed me, please give me a following there at chris.vanveleet. And I'm just at Chris VanVleet on every other platform. Let's do this thing. Please welcome Margo Robbie and Diego. Calva. Last time I saw you, I found out you were a little bit of a WWE fan. Yeah. Is John Sina still? He is. He's still your favorite? He's so worth the hype. He's the best. I love him. I really love him. Even though we can't see him. Yeah, yeah, even though you can't see him. How do I get invited to a party like this? Oh, man, stick in town, kid. This is Hollywood. That's all it takes. No, I mean, I, I, I would all come to a Damien Chiselle set. Okay. Because being at that party, like you see it on screens,

I mean, that's kind of how it felt. It was the roaring 20s then. It's the 20s now. I know. Doesn't feel as roaring, perhaps, though. I don't know. No, not quite the same. No.

I love this idea in the movie that people may not last forever, but once it's on film, your performance lasts forever. I think that's a pretty magical thing. Yeah. Yeah. I love that line. Yeah, Gene Smart has this beautiful scene at the end with Brad, and they talk about exactly that.

And she says, you know, you'll die and stuff. but you'll dine with ghosts and angels forever. Because you're captured on cellular, and that line always made me cry. It's so, it's so beautiful. Do you remember what the moment was for you when you wanted to become an actor? And I wanted to become an actor. Honestly, I was doing boom operation, was a boom operator, and an actor didn't show up. And the director asked me, like, would you do this small role?

And I felt like, okay, this could be fun. And I just keep doing it and doing it. and now I'm here sitting with Margarov. It's a very manny story. Just like a movie. Just like a movie. That's crazy. And I love this other line in the film

that like a movie sets the most magical place on Earth. And I've had the great fortune of being on a few movie sets. It's true. It is true. What is it that's so magical about a movie set? I don't know. Maybe it's the fact that we're adults when we're all playing make-believe on such a huge scale. And it feels like we just hacked the system to be able to keep playing for the rest of

of our lives. I don't know. Maybe it's that. Yeah, like freedom. You can breathe freedom there. Yeah. Everything can happen. Yeah, anything's possible. I love the scene where your character is crying on command. Yeah. Repeatedly. Yeah. How? How do you do this? Just I can cry and command.

Seriously, you can? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Wow. And like Nellie says, oh, I just think of home. What is it that you think? I just think of something sad. Damien asked me that too. He's like, what do you think of something sad? Like, how sad are we talking about it? we talking about? You know, family dying and things like that. Oh, it's awful. Yeah, yeah, but it works. So these, the actual tears you were crying? Yeah. I also, if I have to do a lot of crying,

I kind of get, I try to not sleep a lot for days leading up to it because the more tired I am, the easier it is to cry. You know, when you're really tired and just kind of on the brink of tears if you're really, really overtired? So yeah, I just get like two, three hours sleep for three days leading up to it, and then I can try. Oh, that's it. It's just that easy. Yeah. Give it a try. Think of something sad and don't sleep. And don't sleep. That is just the simplest thing. I also worked on a soap for three years, so I practiced the crying thing.

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that you'll bring with you to every other set that you work on now? God, so many things you go first. The concentration, like he's just the hardest worker on set sometimes and he put you into the next level. He made me did

or find things on me that I didn't know that I had, you know. So that kind of just hard workers kind of situation, I think that's something that I tried to keep with me. Yeah, and that relentless pursuit of perfection. It doesn't have to be perfection in that it's perfect. It's that it's got to be better than you ever imagined. And if it's not that, you haven't got to take yet. And I've just, I hate that feeling on set where you move on

because you have to do time constraints or whatever, but not on a Damien Chazel set. You will go again and again. and again, until you've gotten it better and better and more and exciting. And, yeah, you never know when it's going to be his version of perfection, but you give it your all until he says, we got it. And those are some long takes. We did our one-a, which was like a two-and-a-half-minute one-a-thirty-six times.

And that's a record for me. Yeah. Wow, yeah, that's true. Well, the film is incredible. Thank you. So good to see you guys. Congratulations. Thank you.

All right. Well, there we go. Margo and Diego. So good. By the way, crying on command, that is impressive. Although, you know, I guess if that's a skill that you have in your tool belt, acting is probably the right job for you. Babylon is in theaters on December 23rd.

Please let me know what you think of this one. Tag me, tag at Babylon movie, and we'll share this out. I'll leave you with a quote from Damien Chazelle's movie, Lollaland, which I also loved. But this quote seems so fitting for... The movie we talked about, but just for this podcast in general, people love what other people are passionate about. Remember that scene? You remember that line in La La Land?

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