Margot Robbie is too blessed to be stressed about Barbie Oscars snub

Many fans were offended on Margot Robbie’s behalf that she wasn’t nominated for her acting in Barbie, but Margot Robbie is not. “There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re this blessed,” Robbie said during a panel at a SAG screening (via Deadline). “I just suspect it’s bigger than us. It’s bigger than this movie, it’s bigger than our industry.”

Robbie is “beyond ecstatic” about the film’s eight nominations, which includes a Best Picture nod (and by extension Robbie as a producer for the film). “Obviously I think Greta [Gerwig] should be nominated as a director because what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing, what she pulled off, it really is,” Robbie added. “But it’s been an incredible year for all the films.”

“We set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact. And it’s already done that, and some, way more than we ever dreamed it would. And that is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this,” Robbie asserted. She shared a memory of hearing a group of men discussing the movie in a pub, reflecting, “People’s reactions to the movie have been the biggest reward of this entire experience, whether it’s having a moment like that, or whether it’s listening in the bathrooms, or whether it’s seeing what people are writing online, or even just seeing how much pink I can see in this room right now.”

Robbie remarked that she’d “never been a part of something like this” before. “I’ve done comic book stuff and that gets a big reaction, but this felt very different. It still feels very different,” she said. “And I can’t think of a time when a movie’s had this effect on culture. And it’s amazing to be in the eye of the storm.”