Margot Robbie has as soon as once more spoken about her love of Slipknot and different heavy metallic bands.
Showing on The Graham Norton Present final night time (January 13) to advertise her new movie Babylon, Robbie revealed that whereas she “wasn’t [a] full goth” as an adolescent, she was “very emo”.
“I might solely take heed to heavy metallic music, [and] I might die my hair black and solely lower it with a razor blade. So yeah, kinda goth.”
“Does anybody like heavy metallic? Was that one thing you genuinely appreciated?” requested fellow visitor Cate Blanchett.
“I genuinely did, and nonetheless do genuinely prefer it,” replied Robbie. “I keep in mind going to this Slipknot live performance [while I was on Neighbours] and on the time, it was essentially the most I’d ever been recognised,” she continued. “I’ve by no means had extra individuals come as much as me than at a Slipknot live performance.”
“The crossover between Neighbours and Slipknot [was amazing]. It was [also] so sudden. They have been frightened about all of the characters [in the soap] and if so-and-so’s child is okay. [The Slipknot fans] have been so invested in Neighbours,” Robbie added earlier than reiterating that she’s nonetheless a fan.
Showing on The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon in 2020, Robbie confirmed off her data of all issues Aerosmith, KISS, Slipknot and Metallica throughout a ‘Know It All’ quiz. She’s beforehand revealed to Fallon that as an adolescent, she’d “solely put on band shirts and take heed to the heaviest of heavy metallic”. She stated on the time: “It was a extremely bizarre part, however [I liked] Silverstein and Bullet For My Valentine and bands like that.”
Robbie continued: “I went to a Slipknot live performance and to this present day it was most likely the perfect live performance I’ve ever gone to. They’re simply wonderful performers – even when you don’t like metallic, I believe you’d admire a Slipknot live performance, trigger it’s simply unimaginable to look at.”
Again in 2018, Robbie was shocked by Bullet From My Valentine and Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor throughout a BBC Radio 1 look.
“I heard you got here to see Slipknot a very long time in the past and I simply wished to thanks and say how happy I’m about your success,” stated Taylor. “If you happen to ever wish to come to a different Slipknot present, simply tell us – hopefully it’s as loopy as you keep in mind it.”
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Babylon is about for launch January 20. Directed by Oscar-winner Damien Chazelle, the upcoming movie sees Robbie play an aspiring actress within the Nineteen Twenties, who recruits Hollywood hotshot Jack (Brad Pitt) to assist her obtain her dream.
In a latest interview, Robbie revealed she snuck in an unscripted kiss with Pitt on the set of Babylon.
Slipknot in the meantime are set to headline Obtain Competition later this yr, alongside Deliver Me The Horizon and Metallica. There’s additionally the likelihood that they’ll lastly launch “misplaced” album ‘Look Exterior Your Window’ following their departure from Roadrunner Information.