Margot Robbie Recalls Paying Off Her Mom’s Mortgage

“I was like, ‘Mum, don’t even worry about that mortgage anymore. It doesn’t even exist anymore.'”

“Everything I owed my mum, I had it written down. She’d take money out of the house mortgage [to] lend me money. So I always knew, I was like, ‘I’ve gotta pay that back,'” Robbie stated. “And then one day, when I made enough money, I just paid that whole mortgage off completely. I was like, ‘Mum, don’t even worry about that mortgage anymore. It doesn’t even exist anymore.'”

After getting her onscreen begin as Donna Freedman within the Australian cleaning soap opera “Neighbours” in 2008, Robbie started pursuing roles on the large display. In 2013, she scored her breakout function as Naomi Lapaglia in “The Wolf of Wall Street” reverse Leonardo DiCaprio, a task that probably contributed to serving to her mother, Sarie Kessler, financially. “Honestly, anyone in my position, you’d do that for your mum. Of course, you would,” Robbie stated of the type gesture.

In a 2019 interview with Vogue Australia, Kessler recalled the primary time Robbie expressed her want to turn into an actor. “I really admired the way you set about deciding how your future was going to unfold,” Kessler advised Robbie. “I remember the first time you told me you were going to be an actor in grade 12.”

Kessler additionally revealed that she was initially cautious of Robbie’s choice to turn into an actor, particularly as a result of nearly all of their household had studied medication and enterprise. “I was very concerned you were intending to take a pathway that, to me, didn’t have a really extensive future. And now you could say: ‘Mum, you needed more faith in what I can achieve,'” Kessler stated. “I’m just absolutely so happy for you that you’re in a situation where you love what you do and you have the independence to do what you do because you guys started up your own company.”

Though Robbie has since paid her mother again for the monetary sacrifices she made through the years — and introduced her mother as her date to the European premiere of “Barbie” in London — Robbie nonetheless retains the checklist of bills as a reminder of her mother’s assist and the way far she’s come in consequence. “I have that piece of paper still,” she stated. “I kept it.”