The Australian actress, now starring in Goodbye Christopher Robin, admitted that she was very wary of the character being billed as the “hottest blonde ever” – a title she didn’t think she could live up to.
Speaking to Wonderland, she said: “When I was playing Naomi in The Wolf Of Wolf Street, it was so high-tempo sexy.
“I was acutely aware that the line in the screenplay was ‘the hottest blonde ever.'”
She added: “I’m clearly not the hottest blonde ever.
“I was just terrified that people would see the movie and think: ‘Eugh! She’s not that great.'”
Sure enough, however, the movie helped to catapult her to the next level of stardom.
In the same interview, she also criticised reviewers who focus more on her appearance than her craft.
“All the reading, all the acting coaching, and then someone reviews the movie or interviews you and all they do is focus on the aesthetics,” she ranted.
“You think: ‘F**k you. You’ve totally discredited the work I did and it’s not fair!'”
Goodbye Christopher Robin is another change of pace; a post-WW2 family drama about A.A. Milne and his son – the real Christopher Robin.
The movie is out tomorrow.