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She has consistently delivered gold at the box office since she made her stunning Hollywood debut opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Wolf of Wall Street in 2013.
But the dream flight for Margot Robbie has landed its first big hit, as reviews for her latest film Amsterdam continue to give the film a thunderous “thumbs down.”
The blow comes fresh off the back of more questionable publicity for the Australian actress following an incident in Argentina where her friends were arrested after a scuffle with paparazzi, coupled with her high-profile friendship with ‘erratic’ British model Cara Delevingne.
Critics have blasted Robbie’s latest film Amsterdam, directed by David O. Russell and starring Christopher Bale and John David Washington.
Robbie with Amsterdam director David O. Russell. The film also stars Robert DeNiro, Anya Taylor Joy, Chris Rock, Mike Meyers and Taylor Swift
Critics have piled on the David O.Russell-directed film — his first since the underperforming Joy in 2015 — and the majority agree it’s an overcooked mess that even the star cast can’t save.
At a paltry 33 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, Amsterdam — starring Christian Bale and John David Washington — Robbie stars as former WW1 battalion nurse Valerie Voze who helps Bale and Washington investigate a murder.
“At the same time overcrowded and malnourished, hectic and twisting, Amsterdam is one big, star-studded, hot mess of a movie,” explained RobertEbert.com.
Richard Roeper of the Chicago-Sun Times called it “stunningly awful, endlessly boring…” while The Times UK summed it up as “terribly written by Russell and stupidly edited (huge gaps between the lines)…an endurance test.”
The film is expected to lose at least $100 million at the box office after a disastrous opening weekend in the US, where it cost just $6.5 million for studio New Regency and distributor Disney.
Amsterdam is one big, star-studded, hot mess of a movie,” explains best film review site RobertEbert.com.
Despite its huge budget and all-star cast, Amsterdam is on track to become a costly disaster for New Regency and Disney as the film will lose $100 million
During the high-profile incident in Argentina, Robbie and Delevingne had just been eating dinner at the famed Patagonia Sur hotspot in Buenos Aires at 3 a.m. local time last Sunday, when a local photographer reportedly tried to take their picture.
British film producer Josey McNamara, who is also a producer on Robbie’s upcoming Barbie film, and British key figure Jac Hopkins got into an argument with photographer Pedro Alberto Orquera, who claims the two men got angry at his presence and chased him down the street.
Surveillance camera footage shows Orquera running with pursuers and then crashing near an oncoming car.
He was later treated in hospital for cuts and a broken arm.
The two filmmakers were arrested and taken to a police station for questioning before being charged with assault.
Obviously Robbie and Delevingne have left the scene.
The incident brought the couple’s unlikely friendship back into the limelight just weeks after images obtained exclusively by MailOnline.com showed Robbie looking visibly distressed after visiting Delevingne at her Los Angeles home.
A visibly distraught Margot was driven from the home of Cara Delevingne for $7 million in a chauffeured SUV on Sept. 12. She later turned up at LAX . airport
Margot came out of Cara’s West Hollywood home in tears after the British model and actress looked disheveled and disoriented after a trip to Burning Man
Cara, who had recently returned from several days at the Burning Man music festival in the Nevada desert, had previously been photographed looking tired and disheveled and at one point was seen smoking some pipe.
Sources told DailyMail.com at the time that she did not eat or shower during the event.
The source said, “She’d just spent days in the desert, not eating much and she looked untidy because she hadn’t had time to scrub herself.”
He continued: ‘Her friends are generally concerned about her after some erratic behavior, but she has a good group around her. Her sister was with her at the festival. She wasn’t alone and she has her back.’
However, the strange behavior started weeks earlier when she, Robbie and her other friends went on holiday to Spain in August to celebrate Delevingne’s 30th birthday.
At one point, a wide-eyed Cara can be seen wiping cake icing over her face during the multi-day celebrations aboard a superyacht off the coast of Formentera.
Since then, the Carnival Row actress has appeared more and more erratic in public.
In September, a video of Delevingne acting strangely waving her arms and seemingly not sitting still outside LA’s Van Nuys Airport made headlines. She later boarded one of Jay-Z’s private jets and didn’t get off until 45 minutes later, even though the flight never took off.
A very tired looking Cara Delevingne photographed outside the Van Nuys airport in LA in September
Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne have a friendship dating back to 2016 and they often see them partying together
Robbie seen here at the Amsterdam premiere in London, shortly before her group’s meeting with a photographer in Argentina
Shortly afterwards, and just two weeks before the most recent incident in Argentina, a visibly upset Robbie was seen with Cara at her home in LA.
A source noted that Robbie and Delevingne’s closeness has not gone unnoticed by many in the industry, with many wondering what the Hollywood ‘darling’ and the troubled British model/actress have in common.
“Margot has a potential Oscar nominee on her hands with Barbie. But the (Academy of Arts and Motion Pictures Sciences) also read the tabloids.’
Cara recently photographed in Paris after visiting the Burning Man festival in Nevada
“Margot has a potential Oscar nominee on her hands with Barbie. But the (Academy of Arts and Motion Pictures Sciences) also read the tabloids.’
Robbie representatives have been contacted for comment.
Obviously, the origins of Margot and Cara’s close bond date back to even before the pair collaborated on Suicide Squad – the 2016 DC Universe movie that was considered a box office receipt.
Cara pictured here at the height of her modeling fame on the Victoria’s Secret runway in 2013
Margot seen here with Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2014 premiere of Wolf of Wall Street. The film would propel the Aussie onto the Hollywood A-List
In 2020, Robbie told Entertainment Tonight that the couple became friends at a social event before filming began.
When this waitress asked, ‘Do you want water? Do you want champagne?’ I said, “God, I want a tequila”.
“Cara, who I’d never met before, was about five feet away from me and her ears pricked up and she said, ‘Did someone say tequila?’
“I was like, ‘You and I are going to be best friends.'”
The actress added: ‘I really love her. I do.
“I’ve done very intense projects with people I haven’t kept in touch with, so I know it from both sides.”