I worked as Margot Robbie’s body double on the Barbie movie – this is what it was really like on set
- Emma Eastwood, 26, doubled for Margot Robbie on the upcoming movie
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A little known actress has revealed what it was like to act as Margot Robbie’s body double on the upcoming Barbie movie.
Emma Eastwood, 26, who is originally from California but lives in London, acted as a stand-in for the Oscar-nominated actress in the upcoming Greta Gerwig flick.
She had twice auditioned to be an extra in the film, but was turned down, and had given up all hope when she unexpectedly got a text from a casting director asking her to double as Margot.
Luckily, the pair are the same size and colouring, meaning she can shoot scenes where the star’s face isn’t in it, or help production light scenes.
Speaking to the New York Times, Emma revealed she ‘had her own trailer’ and ‘got the star treatment’ on set, making her feel ‘really spoiled’ on the Warner Brothers studio in London.
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Emma Eastwood, 26, who is originally from California but lives in London, acted as a stand-in for the Oscar-nominated actress in the upcoming Greta Gerwig flick
She had twice auditioned to be an extra in the film, but was turned down, and had given up all hope when she unexpectedly got a text from a casting director asking her to double as Margot. She is pictured on set
But that didn’t mean it wasn’t hard work, with her waking up before sunrise to be on set for 6am.
Emma had previously worked in adverts and and music videos but Barbie is her first time working as a body double.
One scene she filmed made it into the movie’s trailer -a shot of her walking up a set of stairs acting like her feet hurt.
‘They didn’t give me any details of what we would be doing,’ she added to NYT.
‘There were a couple times they said the whole cast would be there and it would be an important day, but they never actually gave me any details of what we would be doing until I was on set.’
Emma had previously worked in adverts and and music videos but Barbie is her first time working as a body double. She is pictured on set in London
One scene she filmed made it into the movie’s trailer -a shot of her walking up a set of stairs acting like her feet hurt. Emma is pictured in the new trailer
Emma would sit in hair and make-up for hours, often getting caked in fake tan to replicate Barbie’s sunkissed look.
She would then stay in her own clothes until moments before going on set, in order to avoid damaging the clothes.
The plot of the highly anticipated movie has been kept under wraps, with Emma often not knowing what she was filming.
She won’t be able to see the film until its in cinemas next month, to know which other scenes she featured in.
Emma would sit in hair and make-up for hours, often getting caked in fake tan to replicate Barbie’s sunkissed look to just like Margot (left). Margot is seen left, Emma right
Emma revealed she ‘had her own trailer’ and ‘got the star treatment’ on set, making her feel ‘really spoiled’ on the Warner Brothers studio in London
Emma hoped to befriend Margot (pictured) to heighten her chances of working as her double again, but the pair rarely overlapped
One time, the actress had to lie on the ground facedown for an hour.
‘When I got up, I literally felt drunk I have no idea what that scene was about,’ she added.
Emma hoped to befriend Margot to heighten her chances of working as her double again, but the pair rarely overlapped.
Taking to Twitter the actress did reveal the A-lister was ‘amazing, so lovely’ and ‘even sweeter than you’d expect’.
‘She told me she felt like she was looking in the mirror and I almost fainted,’ she said.
This week, Warner Bros. Pictures unveiled a new trailer for the $100M-budget fantasy flick bringing the famous Mattel doll to life
This week, Warner Bros. Pictures unveiled a new trailer for the $100M-budget fantasy flick bringing the famous Mattel doll to life.
10-time Grammy nominee Nicki Minaj and rap newcomer Ice Spice’s single Barbie World, which samples Aqua’s 1997 hit parody song Barbie Girl, could be heard throughout the new teaser.
Barbie: The Album will also feature songs from Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, KAROL G, Tame Impala, Dominic Fike, HAIM, The Kid LAROI, Khalid, PinkPantheress, GAYLE, Ava Max, and two TBA artists.
Gerwig co-wrote the first live-action Barbie film with her partber Noah Baumbach and they enlisted Oscar winner Helen Mirren to narrate it.
Simu Liu, John Cena, Michael Cera, Alexandra Shipp, Hari Nef, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Emerald Fennell are also featured in Barbie, which hits US/UK theaters on July 21.
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