Margot Robbie launched herself, like her other colleagues, into the alcohol trade, particularly gin, together with her husband and partner Tom Ackerley. And for her it’s something less risky than betting on a film…
Chatting with the Times of London, Margot Robbie he joked about his new venture, which has nothing to do with cinema: he has in fact just founded the“Papa Salt” gin labeltogether with his Husband as well as a business partner Tom Acklerley. It will hardly do the same numbers as its production company LuckyChapfresh from Barbiehowever… there is a reason why so many of your colleagues have launched themselves into this sector…
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Margot Robbie he co-produced and starred in the blockbuster Barbie last year, bringing the iconic doll to life. She was Harley Quinn for DC/Warner Bros in several feature films. He has to his credit three Oscar nominationsFor Tonya (best protagonist), Bombshell (best supporting role) and Barbie himself (as producer of the best film nominee). In short, Margot and her production company LuckyChap they have a part of Hollywood in their hands, but just as happened to his colleagues like Ryan Reynolds, George Clooney, Kylie Minogue And Brad Pittshe made herself safe from the fickleness of cinema and the public: she too entered the alcohol businessinaugurating its own gin labelthe Pope Saltconfused with Tom Ackerley, her partner and husband (since 2016). Cinema is my first love, but these secondary activities have an advantage, which Robbie explains with his usual irony:
Film is a crazy industry, sell something that is not tangible, it’s an idea. You don’t know how much it will do, who will see it, if it will be seen and how it will be received. This instead gives you the sensation of being more directit’s easier to predict things. You can open a spreadsheet, but you can’t do that when you’re illustrating an idea for a film. Our passions are cinema and drinks, and now we’ve got them both covered!
