Margot Robbie paid off her mother’s mortgage with movie earnings from breakout role

Margot Robbie has mentioned she was capable of “utterly” pay off her mother’s mortgage as soon as she made “sufficient cash” following her breakout role.

In 2013, the Australian actor, 33, starred in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama The Wolf of Wall Road reverse Leonardo DiCaprio. It was Robbie’s portrayal of Naomi Lapaglia, the spouse of real-life inventory market scammer and manipulator Jordan Belfort, that shot her to fame.

In response to News.com.au, Robbie paid off her mum Sarie Kessler’s total mortgage for her sixtieth birthday one 12 months after the movie.

“She’d take cash out of the home mortgage, lend me cash, so I at all times knew I bought to pay that again,” the Barbie star mentioned on the newest episode of CBS’s Sunday Morning.

“After which in the future, after I made sufficient cash, I simply paid that entire mortgage off utterly. I used to be like, ‘Mum, don’t even fear about that mortgage anymore. It doesn’t even exist anymore.’

“Every part I owed my mum, I had it written down,” Robbie continued, including that she “stored” that piece of paper. “Actually, anybody in my place… you’d try this to your mum,” she mentioned.

Robbie’s beforehand spoken about her mom coming to her help when she skilled certainly one of her “lowest moments” after her Wolf of Wall Road fame. She was solely 23 on the time.

“One thing was taking place in these early levels and it was all fairly terrible, and I keep in mind saying to my mum, ‘I don’t suppose I wish to do that,’” the actor recalled in a 2022 interview with Vainness Honest.

“And she or he simply checked out me, utterly straight-faced, and was like, ‘Darling, I believe it’s too late not to.’ That’s after I realised the one manner was ahead.”

Robbie can presently be seen main Greta Gerwig’s essential and field workplace hit, Barbie, as the favored Mattel doll who ventures into the true world to seek out her life’s goal.

Since its launch, the movie has been lauded by critics, with The Impartial’s Clarisse Loughrey calling it a “near-miraculous achievement” in her five-star evaluation.

It’s already on observe to be the largest launch of the 12 months, incomes $337m (£288.3m) on the international field workplace in its first weekend.

Barbie is out in cinemas now.