Margot Robbie has revealed that when she first read Saltburn’s jaw-dropping bath scene it "didn't feel that shocking".
The Barbie star produced Emerald Fennell's divisive black comedy as part of her production company LuckyChap Entertainment.
The feature has proved to be one of the most talked about films of the year after it landed on Prime Video over the festive break.
The film sees Jacob Elordi's character Felix Catton befriending loner Oliver Quick, played by Barry Keoghan, during his first term at the University of Oxford.
Taking Quick under his wing, Catton invites him to spend some time with him at his family's sprawling estate, Saltburn, during the term break.
In one much-talked-about scene, Quirk enters Catton's bathroom minutes after his friend has taken and performed an intimate act in a bath, proceeding to slurp the remnants of the bath water.
Speaking to Variety about her reaction to the scene, Robbie said: "It didn’t feel that shocking in the script, because Emerald immerses you into a world so quickly.
"She's so masterful at tone and plot. She gets you into it so quickly - you're just immediately like, 'I'm in this world'.
"So by the time you get to something like the bathtub scene, she has primed you for it. She has got you. You're, like, picking at a scab. You’re like: 'I can’t help myself'.
"Or like popping a pimple: 'I know I shouldn't squeeze but I'm gonna'."
Robbie added that she felt Fennell's script was "intentionally disgusting and satisfying" in terms of the journey the film takes viewers on.
Adding: "I think she wanted you to be equally as disgusted as you are titillated, and equally as shocked as you are by finding that depravity in yourself.
"She gets in your brain and she kind of taps into the most depraved parts of it, so that you're complicit in the story.
"That's the watercooler moment — the thing that people are talking about two weeks afterwards."
Recently, Elordi shared his thoughts on the controversial scene and echoed Robbie's sentiments praising Fennell for the idea.
He told Stream Wars: "I was just really excited when I read that scene, because... you don't really see things like that in sort of mainstream movies... a lot of the time.
"So it's just great that [Fennell] was allowed to kind of push those boundaries and expose people like that."
