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'Barbie' star Margot Robbie says selling her own alcohol brand was easier than selling her $1.4 billion movie idea

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Considering the mania and absolute obsession over the Barbie movie last summer, one might guess it was an easy sell to Hollywood studios. Wrong. 

“Movies are a crazy business where you are selling something that isn’t tangible, it’s an idea,” Margot Robbie, the illustrious Australian actress who played Barbie in the beloved movie that made a whopping $1.4 billion at box offices, told The Times. “You have no idea how much it’s going to make, who’s going to see it, if they’ll see it or how it will be received.”

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