Margot Robbie says she 'didn't know the definition of sexual harassment' in workplace until starring in 'Bombshell'
- Margot Robbie said she didn't understand workplace sexual harassment until making "Bombshell."
- "I didn't know the definition of sexual harassment, and that's shocking," Robbie said.
Margot Robbie said she didn't really understand what sexual harassment in the workplace was until she starred in the 2019 drama "Bombshell," which looked into the women at Fox News who suffered sexual misconduct at the hands of the network's CEO Roger Ailes.
"I realized that I — as a person with an established position in the industry, financially set up and self-sufficient — I didn't know the definition of sexual harassment, and that's shocking," Robbie said (via Variety) Tuesday at a career retrospective hosted by BAFTA in London.
The "Wolf of Wall Street" star said it "horrified her" how little she knew and that filming "Bombshell" made her realize that sexual harassment "flourishes in the grey area."
"Roger Ailes or Harvey Weinstein, they take advantage of the area," she said at the A Life In Pictures event. "The situation isn't black and white."
Robbie said because there was so much to take in on the experience, it was easy to escape that character once filming was over.
"The second I could stop being Kayla, I did," she said. "It was definitely something I wanted to tap out of at the end."
Robbie has since tackled the subject of sexual misconduct as a producer, as she was behind the 2020 Carey Mulligan movie "Promising Young Woman," which won a best original screenplay Oscar for director Emerald Fennell.
Robbie will next be seen playing an outlandish actress working in 1920s Hollywood in "Babylon," which opens on December 23.