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Some actors use their first paycheck to purchase a brand new automotive or a cool guitar. For Margot Robbie, the expense was a bit extra private. Speaking with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Tracy Smith on July 23, Robbie, who rocked the world together with her portrayal of the titular character in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” film, revealed that she saved up her first large paychecks to repay her mother’s mortgage.
“I used to be like, ‘Mum, do not even fear about that mortgage anymore. It does not even exist anymore.'”
“Everything I owed my mum, I had it written down. She’d take cash out of the home mortgage [to] lend me cash. So I all the time knew, I used to be like, ‘I’ve gotta pay that again,'” Robbie stated. “And then someday, once I made sufficient cash, I simply paid that entire mortgage off utterly. I used to be like, ‘Mum, do not even fear about that mortgage anymore. It does not even exist anymore.'”
After getting her onscreen begin as Donna Freedman within the Australian cleaning soap opera “Neighbours” in 2008, Robbie started pursuing roles on the large display screen. In 2013, she scored her breakout function as Naomi Lapaglia in “The Wolf of Wall Street” reverse Leonardo DiCaprio, a task that probably contributed to serving to her mother, Sarie Kessler, financially. “Honestly, anybody in my place, you’d do this to your mum. Of course, you’ll,” Robbie stated of the type gesture.
In a 2019 interview with Vogue Australia, Kessler recalled the primary time Robbie expressed her want to develop into an actor. “I actually admired the way in which you set about deciding how your future was going to unfold,” Kessler informed Robbie. “I bear in mind the primary time you informed me you have been going to be an actor in grade 12.”
Kessler additionally revealed that she was initially cautious of Robbie’s choice to develop into an actor, particularly as a result of the vast majority of their household had studied medication and enterprise. “I used to be very involved you have been aspiring to take a pathway that, to me, did not have a extremely in depth future. And now you could possibly say: ‘Mum, you wanted extra religion in what I can obtain,'” Kessler stated. “I’m simply completely so comfortable for you that you simply’re in a scenario the place you like what you do and you’ve got the independence to do what you do since you guys began up your personal firm.”
Though Robbie has since paid her mother again for the monetary sacrifices she made through the years — and introduced her mother as her date to the European premiere of “Barbie” in London — Robbie nonetheless retains the record of bills as a reminder of her mother’s help and the way far she’s come because of this. “I’ve that piece of paper nonetheless,” she stated. “I stored it.”