Margot Robbie remains to be perplexed why Babylon didn’t get a superb reception from moviegoers.
Damien Chazelle’s 2022 movie additionally starred Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, Jean Sensible, Jovan Adepo, and Li Jun Li. With an estimated price range of $80 million, the Paramount Photos movie solely made $15 million on the home field workplace and a complete of $63 million worldwide.
“I don’t get it both. I do know I’m biased as a result of I’m very near the mission and I clearly imagine in it, however I nonetheless can’t determine why folks hated it,” Robbie mentioned on The Speaking Photos podcast. “I’m wondering if in 20 years persons are going to be like, ‘Wait, Babylon didn’t do properly on the time?’ Like while you hear that Shawshank Redemption was a failure on the time and also you’re like like, ‘How is that potential?’”
Babylon occurred in Hollywood, following a number of characters in the course of the transition from silent to sound movies within the late Twenties.
Regardless of not being a field workplace winner, Robbie recalled having a superb time working with the director.
“Damian is so thorough,” the Barbie star mentioned. “Are you aware what I cherished a lot about working with him? I felt like nobody had actually put their foot to the ground with the fuel, however he needed that on a regular basis. He needed extra all the time. Even once we had been prepping.”
Robbie’s sentiment that with time, folks might admire Babylon is one thing that director Hideo Kojima mentioned about Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, which additionally didn’t fare properly on the field workplace.
“Over the subsequent 10 or 20 years, this movie’s popularity will doubtless change together with the permeation of hero motion pictures to come back,” Kojima mentioned in a submit on X, the microblogging platform previously often known as Twitter. “It could take a while for it to turn out to be a real ‘folie à deux.’”
