Margot Robbieis no stranger to completely transforming into character for many of her movies, but the latest one took it to a whole new level.
“I’d say, ‘Hey, how’s your weekend?’ But they wouldn’t even get close to me,” Robbie, 28, recalls of trying to chat with people while covered with scars and thick white makeup. “It was very alienating. And I felt very lonely. It was an interesting social experiment.”
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Robbie says had to wear layers of prosthetics and makeup to transform into Elizabeth, who often sported the heavy white makeup to cover the scars on her face for the small pox. It made her completely unrecognizable in the role, stripping away the Australian beauty’s distinctive features and glowing blonde hair.
“Normally there’s someone who steps in and says, ‘No, keep all the girls looking pretty!’” she says of her experience on movie sets. “But Josie Rourke, the director, was keen to explore howQueen Elizabeth’s looks affected her relationships.”
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“Everyone manipulated their relationship,” Robbie toldEWof Mary and Elizabeth. “It’s complicated, it’s tragic, and it’s bizarre. Theonlyother person in the world who could understand the position they were in was each other.”
Mary Queen of Scotshits theaters Dec. 7.
source: people.com
