Fans were shocked when Margot Robbie disclosed the drug that was provided to the actors on the Babylon sets in place of narcotics, shocking the audience.
In the film directed by Damien Chazelle, which is set in the 1920s and serves as a tribute to the golden age of Hollywood, Robbie was open and honest about the absurd amounts of drinking and drug use that are depicted.
The actress who plays Nellie LaRoy in Suicide Squad confessed to NME that she sought to suggest to Chazelle to reduce the amount of cocaine displayed on film.
“I think the only note I gave Damien… obviously there’s a lot of drugs in this movie and I play a character who does tonnes of drugs,” Robbie said.
“But he would have them rack up lines of coke that were just like the size of hotdogs,” she said of the scenes in which her character ingests cocaine.
“I was like, ‘Damien, she’d be dead. This is an [overdose] situation. People are going to watch this movie and know that this is ridiculous.’”
According to Robbie, the La La Land director responded, “It’s not reading on camera.”
“I’m like, ‘It’s insane,’” she added. “Actually a couple of friends last night that was the first thing they said. They were like, ‘It’s a bit ridiculous how much coke there was.’”
Robbie was asked what the white powder used in the film was, “It was either vitamin B powder or icing sugar, or baby laxative. Either way, it does hurt after a while.”
