Margot Robbie failed to land American Horror Story: Asylum after ‘crazy’ audition

Margot Robbie as soon as failed to land a task in American Horror Story, regardless of being one of many casting director’s “favorite auditions of all time”.

The Australian actor is one in all Hollywood’s bankable stars, having not too long ago gained vital approval for her efficiency in field workplace smash Barbie.

Nevertheless, earlier than she was solid in her breakout function in The Wolf of Wall Avenue in 2013, Robbie failed to land a task within the second season of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology collection American Horror Story.

On the time, the Oscar-nominated actor – who started her on-screen profession in 2008 on the cleaning soap Neighbours – had appeared within the US TV collection Pan Am. Nevertheless, she had in any other case labored solely in Australia.

The revelation was made by casting director Eric Dawson, who recalled Robbie auditioning for American Horror Story: Asylum in 2011.

“Margot has a number of ‘it’ elements,” he instructed Backstage. “That’s the powerful factor for casting administrators who aren’t within the room [anymore] with actors.

“Margot might be one in all my favorite auditions of all time, and it was proper earlier than she broke out. She was such a star. It was loopy, her star attraction when she walked within the room.”

Dawson continued: “Though she didn’t get that function, that was a kind of issues as a casting director the place you go: This can be a star, what will we do along with her? Instantly, although, she was out of our realm of risk of hiring. However that’s actually the enjoyable a part of casting, is seeing the folks whose careers are simply rising.”

Within the years since, Robbie has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards, 4 Golden Globes and 5 Baftas.

Because the star of and a producer on Barbie, the 33-year-old is reportedly set to earn roughly $50m (£39.4m) in wage and field workplace bonuses for the movie, which has made greater than $1.2bn within the world field workplace.

Talking forward of Barbie’s launch in July, Robbie revealed that she had paid off her mom’s mortgage after her breakout function in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 white-collar crime drama, The Wolf of Wall Avenue.

“She’d take cash out of the home mortgage, lend me cash, so I at all times knew I received to pay that again,” she stated.

“After which someday, once I made sufficient cash, I simply paid that complete mortgage off fully. I used to be like, ‘Mum, don’t even fear about that mortgage anymore. It doesn’t even exist anymore.’”

She continued: “Every thing I owed my mum, I had it written down. Truthfully, anybody in my place… you’d try this to your mum.”