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Margot Robbie endured 'thorough' test by top director for sex cult role

Margot Robbie said director Quentin Tarantino even watched her in Australian soap Neighbours before casting her as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, explaining why

[Leonardo Di Caprio, Margot Robbie and Quentin Tarantino attend the photocall of the movie Once Upon a time in Hollywood]

Leonardo Di Caprio, Margot Robbie and Quentin Tarantino attend the photocall of the movie Once Upon a time in Hollywood(Image: Getty Images)

Margot Robbie says Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino watched everything she had ever been in before giving her a role in his movie.

Margot was cast as murdered model and actress Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in America by Tarantino.

Tate was murdered in 1969 by members of Charles Mansons twisted sex cult along with four others in a killing spree that shocked the US.

Tarantino chose Robbie after going through almost all her roles. From Pan Am to Neighbours, and even her screen tests, the brains behind films Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs was said to have lapped up what he saw.

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Speaking candidly in the Five Things with Lynn Hirschberg podcast, Margot said Tarantino's approach to casting was indicative of his attention to detail.

[Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-stars Robbie and DiCaprio reunite in The Wolf of Wall Street]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-stars Robbie and DiCaprio reunite in The Wolf of Wall Street(Image: Appian Way/Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

However, he was seemingly impressed, and gave Margot an opportunity to reprise one of her roles in the short-lived ABC period drama, Pan Am.

Margot said: "Thats the amazing thing about Quentin, his attention to detail.

"He watched everything I had done before we met, even Neighbours, even Pan Am, all of that."

Hirschberg then told her that Tarantino had watched her screen tests, and told her they were really good.

Did he really?" said a surprised Margot.

"Hes just so thorough like that, hes really like detail oriented."

[Margot Robbie in the crime thriller Once Upon a Time in Hollywood]

Margot Robbie in the crime thriller Once Upon a Time in Hollywood(Image: SplashNews.com)

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She added: "Hed watched all Pan Am, hed watched a bunch of Neighbours, and I was like oh goodness, please still give me the job.

"Because I, obviously, wasnt a very good actor back then.

"But theres a brief glimpse of a Pan Am stewardess in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and that is me.

"And I got to dance, that was when I was being Sharon Tate on the Pan Am plane, but I actually played one of the Pan Am stewardesses, you just never saw my face."

"It was just my hands making a Bloody Mary for Leo, I think."

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