Actors Who Were Traumatized By Their Most Intense Roles

Margot Robbie

Margot Robbie plays a hysterical girl in love very well—see Harley Quinn a la Suicide Squad or Birds of Prey—but she had difficulty in the role of figure skater Tonya Harding. The part was famous for the skater's assault on Nancy Kerrigan that destroyed her career. Robbie fell on hard times physically and emotionally, requiring a weekly MRI and intensive emotional work after wrapping.

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