Margot Robbie takes her film preparation very seriously.
So seriously, in fact, that she created a top secret, anonymous Twitter account to research for her role in her latest film Bombshell.
Bombshell tells the real-life story of the sexual harassment scandal at American conservative news station Fox News, which led to the toppling of the company's former Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes - who died in 2017, aged 77.
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To get into character as Kayla, a young, conservative woman eager to carve out a career at the controversial network, Robbie looked to Twitter to find a range of opinions which contradicted her own.
As her real Twitter account - which is followed by 1.2 million people - would likely be quite an obvious platform for the 29-year-old to use to conduct her research, Robbie chose to create another account specifically to follow right-wing American women in an attempt to understand them better.
'I didn’t grow up watching Fox News, and I didn’t grow up in the same place as [Kayla],' the Australian actress told Entertainment Weekly.
'I was struggling to understand that point of view for a while, and Twitter ended up being the most useful tool. Because people are extremely vocal on Twitter.'
In the film, Robbie's character is fictional though both her co-star's, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman's on-screen personas are portrayals of real women.
Kidman plays Gretchen Carlson, a long-standing journalist who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes in 2016, while Theron depicts - with the help of a lot of prosthetics - American newsreader Megyn Kelly, who also claimed Ailes harassed her.
Last week, it was announced that the #MeToo film received two Golden Globe nominations (with Theron up for Best Actress and Robbie for Best Supporting actress) and four Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award nods.
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Olivia Blair is Entertainment Editor (Luxury) at Hearst UK, working across ELLE, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Olivia covers all things entertainment and has interviewed the likes of Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Michaela Coel and Ryan Gosling over the years.
