Margot Robbie briefly appeared in The Big Short, and director Adam McKay utilized the actress’s cameo to add a level of uniqueness and understanding to the movie. The 2015 biographical comedy-drama film chronicles the real-life events leading up to the 2007 housing market crash and how certain people benefited from the financial crisis. Aside from Robbie, the movie contained numerous big-name actors, like Christian Bale as Michael Burry, Steve Carell as Mark Baum, Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett, Brad Pitt as Ben Rickert, Jeremy Strong as Vinny Daniel, Marisa Tomei as Cynthia Baum, John Magaro as Charlie Geller, and Finn Wittrock as Jamie Shipley.
Bale’s character, who is based on a real person, was the hedge fund manager of Scion Capital, and he correctly predicted that the United States housing market would crash in 2007. He and a handful of individuals decided they could turn a profit from the crisis based on this preliminary knowledge. Burry shorted market-based mortgage-backed securities and made money in The Big Short (and in real life) from the crash. Of course, the average person might find it difficult to follow along with the film’s events because not everyone has extensive knowledge of the stock market, and that’s where Margot Robbie came in.
Margot Robbie Explains Mortgage Bonds In Fourth-Wall-Breaking Big Short Scene
Margot Robbie makes a cameo toward the beginning of The Big Short. Ryan Gosling’s character, Jared Vennett, acts as the movie’s narrator, so he introduces her. Jared says, “Mortage-backed securities. Subprime loans. Tranches. It’s pretty confusing, right? Does it make you feel bored? Or stupid? Well, it’s supposed to. Wall Street loves to use confusing terms to make you think only they can do what they do. Or, even better, to just leave them alone. So, here’s Margot Robbie in a bubble bath to explain.” The actress then goes on to explain terms like “subprime” and “shorting.”
Robbie was not the only star to make a cameo as themselves to explain the somewhat difficult-to-understand stock market jargon throughout the movie. She was joined by the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Richard Thaler, and Selena Gomez. They all broke the fourth wall and clarified the terms used by the other characters in The Big Short.
Margot Robbie Would Later Reunite With The Big Short’s 4 Lead Actors
Following her brief appearance in The Big Short in 2015, Margot Robbie went on to work with four of the film’s main characters. She starred alongside Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019 and Babylon in 2022. Robbie and Christian Bale worked together in the 2022 movie Amsterdam. The actress and Steve Carrell appeared in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City in 2023. But Robbie’s most significant The Big Short reunion came in the summer of 2023 when she and Ryan Gosling starred as Barbie and Ken in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.
