Barbie star Margot Robbie has revealed she once faked her own death.
Speaking to BBC Radio 2, the Australian actress was reminiscing about a not-so-innocent prank played on a babysitter that involved a little bit of early role-play.
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“We got a new babysitter, and I wanted my old babysitter back, Talia, who was like sixteen and I thought she was so cool,” Robbie explained.
“And then we got this much older lady in, and I was just not happy about it.”
One day the new babysitter got “cranky” after Robbie refused to get in the bath.
Perhaps pointing towards her future career, Robbie devised a somewhat macabre plot.
“I thought, ‘I’m gonna show you’,” the 33-year-old continued.
“And so I got a big kitchen knife and the ketchup and I sprawled out naked on the tiles, covered myself in ketchup and put the kitchen knife and I waited for like 45 minutes for her to find me.”
When her babysitter ran out the door screaming after discovering the “body,” Robbie added with a smile, “It was worth the wait.”
Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the new Greta Gerwig-directed film and who was also present during the BBC Radio 2 chat, chimed in with his own take on the incident.
“You produced your own death,” he said.
The Babylon actress agreed with a laugh, “I did.”
It seems Robbie faking her own death wasn’t the only childhood moment that foreshadowed her later career on the big screen.
“I also once practiced like a pratfall on the cinema stairs at the shopping centre where I’m from,” she revealed.
“People started calling an ambulance so, I guess I was a bit of a dramatic child.”
With Barbie-mania taking over the film world, Gerwig has discussed the symbolism of making a film about a classic Mattel toy – and what she hoped her movie will achieve with its viewers.
“[Barbie] is literally plastic,” Gerwig told Elle UK in a recent FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS