Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Margot Robbie Rushes to the Defense of a Recent Cinematic Flop

Margot Robbie came to the defense of a recent box office flop...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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When an actor stars in a movie that doesn't quite
live up to expectations critically or commercially, or even worse,
is a flop, many choose to distance themselves from the
project or rein eventually join in on panning the project.
But Margot Robbie is doubling down on our love for Babylon.
The wildly ambitious twenty twenty two movie lost significant money
at the box office and was roasted by critics, but
over the years the tides have turned to some degree.

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Vocal fans defend it and it's rotten tomato score is
creeping up, and when Letterbox informed her of the pendulum
of opinion swinging in its favor, she said, I always
wondered if fans were out there, because when it got
slammed at the time, both critically and at the box office,
I was confused. I think it's an amazing movie, one
I'm very, very proud of being in, and I always
thought it could be one of those movies where twenty

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years later people say Babylon didn't do well at the time.
That's crazy. Sounds like I didn't even have to wait
that long. So if you love Babylon, I love you,
and we think alike when it comes to movies. That's
Margot Robbie on Babylon movie from twenty twenty two. Her
new movie, A Big Bolt, Beautiful Journey.

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