M argot Robbie isn’t kidding when she tells you her role in Damien Chazelle’s star-studded ode to old Hollywood was the toughest of her career. “By the end of the first week of shooting, I came home and I remember saying to my husband, ‘This is the hardest I’ve ever worked.’ And he was like, ‘What?! You always work hard.’ And I’m like, ‘No, this movie is something else,’” recalls Australia’s golden girl of her conversation with Tom Ackerley, whom she wed six years ago.
In a cautionary tale of unbridled excess, traces the rise and fall of multiple players during the late ’20s and early ’30s Hollywood – from Brad Pitt’s