It’s difficult to imagine any star being fair in claiming that they are struggling with fame when they have opulent homes, amazing automobiles, money, glamour, and, according to many, a better life. However, celebrities pay a high price for their popularity, and it comes in a form that many of them do not want to face. Paradoxically, individuals who don’t want to care about it are frequently chastised for being difficult or outright jerks, but superstars, as much as everyone criticizes them for talking about life from a mansion worth a fortune and preaching to everyone about life’s troubles, have their own problems.
Margot Robbie, one of Hollywood’s foremost stunning actresses, rose to fame at an early age. Robbie, who made her mark in the entertainment sector with 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street when she was only 23 years old, has fought hard to acquire her current standing. This sharp performer is a formidable force, not just for her extraordinary looks.
Margot Robbie claimed in an interaction with Vogue Australia for their December issue that she has no misgivings despite her newfound celebrity causing her to suffer mental breakdowns. “It’s hard,” Robbie remarked, being the centre of her own business, which she operates with her spouse Tom Ackerley and creative colleagues Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr.
The Celebrity industrial complex is based on a symbiotic relationship between celebrities and the magazines that cover them: neither can thrive without the other. The power differential of that setup has shifted several times over the last generation, but the basic principle continues to remain the same: the celebrity offers oneself up as feedstock (their appearance, attitude, and personal stories), and the media outlet generates a narrative about who that individual is and why viewers should be drawn to them.
Robbie has renegotiated the conditions of her media engagement. She didn’t proclaim she was abandoning makeup like Alicia Keys, nor did she ask to be “excluded from this narrative” as Taylor Swift, nor did she demand that she dominate every conversation and all media exposure like Beyoncé. She’s simply shifted the public’s focus away from her body and the image she cultivated in her breakout part in Wolf of Wall Street, or towards her skill and work, which is guided by the three objectives she and her production staff address monthly check-ins: quality, variety, and longevity.
