Article from The Daily Telegraph

It was only after reading online that Margot Robbie found out she is to play the lead in Quentin Tarantino’s next film.

“I read about the offer to work with Tarantino online two days ago, I didn’t even know,” Robbie told Confidential, walking the green carpet for the Australian premiere of her new film Peter Rabbit at Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter.

“I called up my team and said, ‘is there an offer in?’ and they said there is,” she told The Sunday Telegraph today.

Tarantino is understood to have the Australian Oscar nominee in his sights to play late actor Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tate was killed by Charles Manson’s associates in 1969.

It’s been a huge few months for Robbie, whose star has risen exponentially thanks to a string of outstanding performances and an Academy Award nomination for I, Tonya.

In Peter Rabbit, a partly-animated film made in Australia and based on the classic book by Beatrix Potter, Robbie voices the character of Flopsy while fellow Aussie Elizabeth Debicki is Mopsy.

Looking ahead, Robbie is hoping to work in Australia again soon.

“There’s not as much of a separation between cast and crew in Australia,” the former Neighbours actor said.

“There’s no hierarchy, everyone hangs together and I really enjoy working like that. I’m taking a lot of meetings with the lesser-known talent at the moment, first and second-time filmmakers.”

Robbie, 27, wearing Chanel, scuttled rumours she might be involved in the upcoming Commonwealth Games, which will take place in her hometown of the Gold Coast next month.

“I won’t be in town for the Commonwealth Games,” she said. “It sounds like it will be hectic but I would have loved to if I was around.

Up next for Robbie is Terminal with Mike Myers, Dreamland with Travis Fimmel and Garrett Hedlund and Mary Queen of Scots.

She is also set to reprise her role as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad 2.