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00:00 I feel like I'm crushing this game.
00:01 I wouldn't even know how to say this without the accent.
00:03 It was so ingrained.
00:04 Ooh, you might have me here.
00:06 What is that?
00:06 [upbeat music]
00:09 I see myself as an influencer in the Jesus space.
00:15 [laughs]
00:17 That's from "Bombshell."
00:18 I see myself as an influencer in the Jesus space.
00:21 That's a character I didn't want to sit in.
00:22 There are some characters where I'm like,
00:24 oh, I want to be Harley for eight,
00:25 well, you don't want to be Harley for too long either
00:27 'cause she's exhausting,
00:28 but that was a character where you want to leave it behind
00:30 at the end of the day.
00:31 Oh, it makes so much sense.
00:32 Frighten, titillate.
00:34 Right, frighten, titillate.
00:35 First time working with Kate McKinnon, it was so good.
00:38 We didn't do an audition or a chemistry read together,
00:41 so I didn't know that we were gonna have
00:42 such great chemistry, and thank God we did
00:45 'cause it's important for the story,
00:46 but it also meant that later when it came to casting Barbie
00:49 and Greta was like, I'm friends with Kate McKinnon,
00:51 I was like, I love her and we've got really good chemistry.
00:54 So it was so good to team up again.
00:56 But yeah, I love our relationship in "Bombshell."
00:58 It's so fun and she's so, I just love her so much.
01:01 She's brilliant.
01:01 Okay.
01:02 Oh, I know this one.
01:05 Who, who, what are you, a fucking owl?
01:07 Who is she?
01:09 From "Wolf of Wall Street."
01:10 Who, who, who, what are you, a fucking owl?
01:13 Who is she?
01:13 I wouldn't even know how to say this without the accent.
01:15 It's so ingrained.
01:17 That actually was not in the script.
01:18 That was on the day.
01:20 I find a Brooklyn accent far easier to do
01:23 than other American regions
01:26 because dropping the R is something we do
01:28 in Australian as well.
01:30 And actually hitting a really hard R
01:31 is hard work for my mouth.
01:33 Doing like the accent I did in "I, Tonya,"
01:36 really, really strong R's.
01:38 Like, I'm not a girly girl.
01:40 It's like, R on the R's.
01:42 Whereas like in "Wolf of Wall Street,"
01:43 she's like Jordan.
01:44 She doesn't even do an R.
01:45 It's not Jordan.
01:47 So I found it much easier.
01:49 That's why I love doing a Brooklyn accent.
01:50 I do a Brooklyn accent for Harley Quinn as well.
01:52 And I love it.
01:53 We're gonna have to work together.
01:54 I'm America's best figure skater.
01:56 I never act in my own accent.
01:58 I actually don't even know if I could now.
01:59 It'd be so weird.
02:01 I'd feel like I'm just playing myself, I think.
02:03 The audition process for "Wolf of Wall Street,"
02:05 they didn't need a known actor for that role,
02:08 which at the time, not being a known actor
02:11 is like the most exciting thing you can hear
02:13 because everyone in town, in my age demographic,
02:16 was like, "Oh my God, we can audition for a Scorsese film."
02:19 I did a tape like everyone else.
02:20 Never expected Scorsese himself to see it.
02:23 I just wanted Ellen Lewis, the casting agent,
02:25 to like the tape and remember me for future things.
02:29 But I never did the tape
02:30 considering I'd actually get the role.
02:33 You know, I got a call a while later saying,
02:36 "Scorsese's watched your tape
02:38 and wants you to come in in person
02:40 to read with him and Leonardo DiCaprio."
02:42 It was so much fun.
02:43 It was my first movie in America
02:45 and quite an introduction to the industry, obviously.
02:49 It was a wild and incredible film.
02:52 And the set was wild and incredible as well.
02:55 And everyone was just trying to one-up each other,
02:58 do something crazier than the last person.
03:00 And every scene would just escalate
03:02 and get bigger and crazier and crazier and crazier.
03:04 And I think Marty was really like
03:05 fostering that atmosphere on set
03:07 because he knew that's what this movie
03:09 needed to be infused with,
03:10 this idea of something spiraling out of control
03:12 and the decadence getting even more crazy and insane.
03:15 So on set, we had a bit of that vibe, which was so fun.
03:19 Ah, okay.
03:22 "America, they want someone to love
03:25 and they want someone to hate."
03:26 That's from "I, Tonya."
03:28 - America, they want someone to love.
03:30 ♪ Stars fading ♪
03:33 - They want someone to hate.
03:35 "I, Tonya," the movie making it to the Oscars
03:37 was kind of like Tonya Harding herself
03:39 making it to the Olympics.
03:41 There was like this feeling of,
03:42 oh, we're like the scrappy underdog
03:45 that like got into this fancy event
03:46 and we're just gonna go for it.
03:48 There was an extra satisfaction in knowing that,
03:51 okay, we really took a big swing here and thank God
03:54 we stuck the landing, as they say.
03:56 I didn't have a cherished ambition of producing per se,
03:59 but I wanted to be more involved in filmmaking,
04:02 make my own things was, I guess,
04:04 how I thought of it in my head.
04:05 It's like, I wanna make things
04:08 without realizing exactly what the role
04:11 a producer entailed.
04:12 Back in my early 20s, you know,
04:14 I just knew that I wanted to be more involved
04:16 because I love all the aspects of putting a film together
04:19 or a TV show together.
04:20 And so then when I met my two best friends, Tom and Josie,
04:23 they were ADs on a set and we spoke about
04:25 making our own things.
04:26 And the following year we started the company
04:28 and started making our own things.
04:31 Did any of these drawings by chance
04:32 have thoughts of death and cellulite?
04:34 That's from Barbie.
04:35 I feel like I'm crushing this game.
04:37 Did any of these drawings by chance
04:39 have thoughts of death and cellulite?
04:41 We at Lucky Chap find ourselves drawn
04:43 to kind of scary territory
04:46 and the amount of expectation around a Barbie movie
04:51 made it feel scary and thrilling.
04:54 It also felt like it had, obviously,
04:56 an innately female lens,
04:58 given that the protagonist is a female character
05:00 and has had so much of the male gaze on it
05:05 throughout history and then also female criticism,
05:08 female celebration.
05:09 I mean, it's just like the gender politics
05:11 that kind of rife for exploring in a project like Barbie
05:14 and all the credit goes to Greta.
05:15 And then you can't help but make things
05:18 that you know your girlfriends are gonna love
05:19 and you know your mom is gonna love.
05:21 You know, like deep down,
05:22 that's who we really wanna please or entertain.
05:25 My closet is so populated by pink now,
05:27 I am gonna have to do a clean out.
05:29 Otherwise people are just gonna be like,
05:30 "Get over it, babe, it's over.
05:32 [laughs]
05:33 "Stop parading around in pink."
05:35 What's that, I should kill everyone and escape?
05:37 Sorry.
05:38 It's the voices.
05:39 That's Harley Quinn in "Suicide Squad"
05:41 'cause the third one is called "The Suicide Squad."
05:43 The first time I played Harley was in "Suicide Squad."
05:46 What was that?
05:47 I should kill everyone and escape?
05:49 Sorry.
05:52 The voices.
05:54 I got so into the comics 'cause they're so good.
05:57 They're really good.
05:58 And just comic books as a medium
06:00 is just like such a fascinating art form
06:02 and so fun as an audience, as a reader.
06:06 Yeah, I love the comics.
06:07 I'm not shopping at this store, I'm robbing this store.
06:10 Oh, that's Harley too, that's in "Birds of Prey."
06:13 It's in "Birds of Prey"?
06:14 I'm not shopping at this store, I'm robbing this store.
06:16 Yeah, in the grocery store.
06:17 Yeah, yeah, yeah, "Birds of Prey."
06:19 I'm not shopping at this store.
06:21 I'm robbing this store.
06:24 I immediately, when reading Harley,
06:27 identified that she works best in a group.
06:29 So I think a lot of people were kind of saying like,
06:31 "What about a solo Harley film?"
06:32 And I was like, "That'd be like watching a kid
06:35 "play in a playground on their own.
06:36 "Like, how fun's that gonna be?
06:37 "Populate that playground, that's gonna be fun
06:39 "for a character like Harley."
06:41 And I really wanted like a girl gang movie.
06:43 I wanted to do like a, you know,
06:45 group of female characters getting together
06:48 and, you know, kicking ass.
06:50 I also produced that, took quite a few years
06:54 to get that, put that one together actually.
06:56 'Cause at the time, doing an R-rated comic book film
06:58 was not a sure thing.
06:59 I pitched an R-rated version of "Birds of Prey"
07:02 before "Deadpool" had come out.
07:03 And "Deadpool" was the first big R-rated comic book success.
07:06 So after that, it was easy.
07:08 But when I first pitched it, they were like,
07:09 "You can't do a comic book movie with an R-rating.
07:11 "It can't work, it doesn't."
07:13 It was like breaking the algorithm.
07:14 You know, maybe a year later, "Deadpool" trailer dropped.
07:17 And I was like, "Well, if this movie works,
07:18 "do we get the R-rating?"
07:20 And they said, "Yes."
07:21 And of course, "Deadpool" did really well.
07:22 And we got the R-rating.
07:24 Ooh, you might have me here.
07:34 What is that?
07:35 Laser focused with a half thought out plan.
07:38 This is what a hero looks like.
07:40 Or a lunatic.
07:41 Voiceover?
07:45 Oh!
07:46 Oh, is this from "Peter Rabbit"?
07:49 Oh, wow.
07:50 I think I've only watched that movie once.
07:53 I need to go back and watch it.
07:54 Laser focused with a half thought out plan.
07:58 This is what a hero looks like.
08:01 Or a lunatic.
08:02 It's a tricky thing about animation.
08:04 I find it really isolating.
08:05 I like, I really need to be with other actors.
08:08 And being in like a recording booth, you're on your own.
08:11 It's interesting and it's fun
08:12 'cause you're doing what you do,
08:14 but in a different, you know, set of circumstances.
08:17 So you're challenged in that way.
08:18 But I just don't find it as fun without other actors.
08:21 And they're such fun movies.
08:22 And I hope the fun comes through.
08:24 But as soon as I did voiceover for animation,
08:27 I was suddenly like, "Oh, this isn't my medium.
08:29 "I need to be on a film set.
08:30 "I need to be with actors."
08:31 Thank you.
08:33 "Honey, you don't become a star.
08:34 "You either are one or you ain't."
08:37 This is from Babylon.
08:38 Nellie Leroy says that.
08:40 "Honey, you don't become a star.
08:41 "You either are one or you ain't."
08:43 I'll never forget that line
08:45 because that scene was done in one shot.
08:48 And I remember we did it 36 times
08:51 and it was like a three minute scene.
08:52 And that's my record for most takes ever.
08:55 "Whatever you do guys, just look after yourselves."
09:00 Whatever you do guys, just look after yourselves.
09:03 I have no idea what that's from.
09:05 Is it on Pan Am?
09:07 Is it in Neighbours?
09:07 Wow.
09:09 Whatever you do guys, just look after yourselves.
09:12 That's the last line I ever said on Neighbours.
09:14 Wow.
09:15 In fairness to me, I was in over 300 episodes.
09:17 So tricky to remember lines from Neighbours.
09:19 I was just cold calling the casting agent's office.
09:22 I kept calling and then one day they let me through to her.
09:25 I don't know why.
09:26 I think it was a mistake.
09:27 And then she was like, "How old are you?"
09:29 And I was like, "I'm 17."
09:30 She said, "Oh, we need a 17 year old girl right now.
09:32 "Come in next week."
09:34 And so I did and I did the audition.
09:36 And then I didn't hear anything.
09:38 Like the Wolf of Wall Street situation,
09:39 like did an audition.
09:40 I was like, "Well, I messed that up, whatever."
09:42 Didn't hear anything.
09:43 And then all of a sudden they were like,
09:44 "You have the role, you start next week."
09:46 And then I was on it for three years.
09:48 It completely changed my life.
09:49 Not just because it was the first time I was like,
09:52 you know, had a regular bit of acting work
09:56 that I was getting paid to do on a regular basis.
09:58 Like that changed my circumstances.
10:01 Also, I learned more on that set than anything else.
10:05 It's an insane machine.
10:09 The way a soap works is like,
10:11 I wish everyone could witness it
10:12 'cause it's truly remarkable.
10:13 So I learned so much about every department.
10:15 I'm definitely a better producer
10:17 because I did a soap for three years
10:19 'cause I know what everyone is doing on set.
10:21 And it was fun.
10:22 I was like a teenager.
10:22 It was the best.
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