If there’s one thing that Margot Robbie is known for besides playing roles like Harley Quinn, Tonya Harding and Nellie LaRoy, it’s how frequently she’s shown her tootsies on the big screen. There’s a whole timeline about her feet stretching back to when she made her Hollywood debut in The Wolf of Wall Street, and Robbie’s feet received renewed attention a few months back thanks to the Barbie trailer. But as far as her released movies go, arguably the biggest example so far comes from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the actress has explained why her feet were dirty during that memorable scene from the 2019 flick.
It’s no secret that many of Quentin Tarantino’s movies highlight women’s feet in one form or another (which the filmmaker has defended), and along with Margaret Qualley’s Pussycat going barefoot while riding around with Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth in his car, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also saw Robbie’s Sharon Tate slipping off her boots while in a theater watching herself in the movie The Wrecking Crew. While going over her various looks, both on screen and in real life, with Vogue, Robbie shared the reasoning behind her feet looking all scuffed up rather than relatively pristine with these words:
