Margot Robbie revealed a very unusual demand made by Quentin Tarantino during an interview. Robbie talked about the experience she had while working with Tarantino. Robbie and the 60-year-old director worked together in the movie Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The star-studded movie was released on 26 July 2016 and it was a drama comedy movie.
Big names like Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dakota Fanning, and Austin Butler were cast in the film. While talking about Tarantino, the 32-year-old actor revealed why her movie director Tarantino wanted her feet to be dirty.
Quentin Tarantino wanted to keep it real during the filming with Margot Robbie
During the filming of the iconic theatre scene from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino asked Margot Robbie to not clean her feet. Walking around barefoot was the demand of the role as the Babylon actress played the role of Sharon Tate who was averse to wearing shoes. To keep the scene more real, the 60-year-old actor asked Robbie not to clear her dirty feet.
During an interview, Robbie explained how she was asked not to clean her dirty feet for the movie scene, she said,
“Shortly after this, my character walks into a movie theater to see herself on the big screen, and she kind of kicks off her go-go boots and puts her feet up and settles in to watch the movie.”
She further added,
“But my feet were dirty because I’d been walking around set. They stayed dirty in the movie because Quentin said, ‘Don’t. Don’t clean them.’ Someone ran in to do it, and he was like, ‘No, it’s real. Keep it.”
The theatre scene from the movie Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is quite popular. Robbie’s performance in the movie was also appreciated by many critics and audiences.
Quentin Tarantino explained why feet are a common factor in his films
In all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, feet are almost always the main visual. The director of Django Unchained was asked about his fascination with feet during an interview, and he replied,
“I don’t take it seriously. There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it, and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”
People have questioned why Tarantino’s female protagonist invariably ends up getting killed, raped, or severely beaten in addition to his fascination with feet. The brutality towards females in Tarantino’s films is frequently questioned, even though the director never aims to depict women in his films in any negative way. Tarantino frequently pushes the performers to push themselves because he always wants his scenes to look authentic.
