Margot Robbie — who trained for four months to play Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya” — says she has “a deep and newfound respect for ice skaters.”
“It was really hard and I did fall a bunch — but it was also extremely fun,” she told us at the film’s Calvin Klein-sponsored premiere. “I had an amazing trainer who has worked with a lot of professionals. She was incredibly patient with me . . . It’s kind of like ballet. Half the art to it is making it look so effortless, when really it takes an extraordinary amount of power and strength and agility.”
Her co-star Sebastian Stan, who plays Harding’s ex, Jeff Gillooly, chimed in: “I’m not going on ice. I’ve never been on ice. I have this big fear that I am going to fall and trip and then some kid is going to slash my wrists off. It’s very dramatic.”