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Margot Robbie Says Her Babylon Improv Gets "Crazier" Than Brad Pitt Kiss
Lights, camera, fashion.
There's nary denying Margot Robbie is expected to charm the surface in Babylon, Paramount's upcoming feature that spotlights the film industry's transition from the soundless epoch to aboriginal talkies in the 1920s.
And what amended mode to seizure the glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties than through a fabulous wardrobe? In fact, the archetypal outfit Margot's character, Nellie, wears successful the caller flick is simply a daring red playsuit that features a plunging neckline and sarong skirt.
Babylon costume designer Mary Zophres revealed that Anna May Wong—the archetypal Chinese American movie star—was the inspiration down the red-hot look.
"There's a photograph of her and she has this scarf that's wrapped astir her cervix and it comes down," she exclusively told E! News astir the Hollywood trailblazer. "That's wherever I got the thought for Margot."
According to Zophres, the fiery playsuit was meant to marque a statement.
"It says strength, power, anger, passion, and each these things you want to the assemblage cognize astir Nellie successful the archetypal 20 minutes of the film," she exclusively told E! News. "It's a precise risqué and provocatively-dressed clip period."
Zophres, who created the red-hot look retired of vintage China silk, said it was a dream to enactment with the Barbie actress.
"She was precise unfastened to wearing anything," Zophres shared. "Nellie is simply a daring pistillate and isn't afraid to enactment herself retired determination successful a mode that's intersexual astatine times. Margot was fearless and was precise trusting of the process. It was a large collaboration."
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And portion Margot's red getup mightiness beryllium considered tame by today's standards, it marked a thrilling caller epoch of manner successful the 1920s. Before flapper dresses ruled the creation level and women could bare their knees and shoulders, they had to beryllium wholly covered up.
"After a precise repressed play of time, particularly for women who were corseted for a century, and past it's not successful manner to deterioration a corset anymore," Zophres shared. "Can you imagine?"
She added, "And it's OK for a pistillate to locomotion down the thoroughfare without a antheral companion. I tin lone ideate that's portion of what spurred the Roaring Twenties."
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As she enactment it, "We're conscionable portraying it a small spot much realistically than mightiness person been portrayed before."
Babylon hits theaters Dec. 23.
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