Margot Robbie shocked by Babylon madness

Margot Robbie calls “Babylon” the “craziest” film of her career.

The 32-year-old stars as actress Nellie LaRoy in Damien Chazelle’s film which depicts the hedonistic early days of Hollywood and she says the film surpasses ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ – where she shared intimate scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Margot told The Sun newspaper: “I remember being on set and thinking, ‘I’m never going to do a movie as crazy as this again.’ And then I did Babylon.”

“There’s a dizzying amount of debauchery. One of the most disturbing and chaotic scenes I’ve ever seen is in this movie, and it involves a fight with a snake.

“I won’t tell you who wins or loses this fight, but trust me, it’s crazy.”

Margot’s alter ego is inspired by the troubled Clara Bow, the original It Girl who scandalised America by being open about her sexual desires in the 1920s, and the actress insists she was willing to behave recklessly to stay true to her character.

The Amsterdam star said: “I would be embarrassed if it was me, but it’s all her.”

Chazelle explained that he wanted to portray Hollywood’s decadent history on the big screen after learning about the scandalous pasts of some movie stars.

He said: “Hollywood at the time was a place where out of the most depraved animal behaviour there emerged these works of art that were so beautiful and seductive.

“Hollywood in the 1920s was really a cesspool of vice and hubris and excess. We tried to put all that on screen. All of it.”

Damien added: “Towards the end of the 1920s there was a kind of wave of suicides, deaths, drug overdoses, and I found that it coincided with the transition from silence to sound.

“I became interested in the kind of extreme lifestyle, the passion, the ambition and the recklessness of all kinds that characterized Hollywood at that time, and it got my brain spinning.”