Margot Robbie served as a producer on Barbie lengthy earlier than she was forged within the titular position of the now $1.18 billion-plus grossing movie. And the paycheck for all her work on- and off-camera, Selection experiences, is legitimately staggering.
Three people with information of the deal informed the outlet that Robbie is about to make roughly $50 million in wage and field workplace bonuses for her work on the movie. Her manufacturing firm LuckyChap Leisure acquired rights to the Barbie IP years earlier than the movie finally got here out.
Robbie spoke to Vogue about that course of, saying, “It wasn’t that I ever wished to play Barbie, or dreamt of being Barbie, or something like that. That is going to sound silly, however I actually didn’t even take into consideration taking part in Barbie till years into creating the undertaking.”
She was in a position to construction her manufacturing firm’s cope with Mattel in order that director Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the script together with her husband Noah Baumbach, had full artistic freedom.
In her pitch to Mattel, Robbie stated she informed the corporate, “We in fact would wish to honor the 60-year legacy that this model has. However we have now to acknowledge that there are lots of people who aren’t followers of Barbie. And actually, aren’t simply detached to Barbie. They actively hate Barbie. And have an actual situation with Barbie. We have to discover a technique to acknowledge that.”
Robbie stated in a later interview with Collider that she tried to promote the movie to trade professionals by telling producers in an early pitch assembly that she thought Barbie might make a billion {dollars}.
“I feel my pitch within the green-light assembly was the studios have prospered a lot once they’re courageous sufficient to pair an enormous concept with a visionary director,” she stated. “After which I gave a collection of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that–just about naming something that’s been unbelievable and made a ton of cash for the studios through the years. And I used to be like, ‘And now you’ve bought Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’ And I feel I informed them that it’d make a billion {dollars}, which perhaps I used to be overselling, however we had a film to make, okay?!”
Robbie clearly wasn’t overselling in any respect—and is being rightly rewarded for that.
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