Clapham to Hollywood: Living in a cramped London home – Margot Robbie is Tinseltown's sweetheart

All eyes in Hollywood are on Margot Robbie. The Oscar-nominated actress is not only one of the stars of the film industry, but she is also one of her most glamorous dreams and a producer.

Walking on the red carpet in Cannes last week to promote his latest film – Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – was the image of Chanel's casual elegance with sequins.

And his appearance a few days earlier – performing a perfect dive in the Mediterranean while wearing a carved and white one-shoulder swimsuit – drew even more attention.

What a difference a few years make.

What may seem surprising, pictures suggest that Mrs. Robbie was not always so well prepared.

Only a few months before playing her leading role in the epic Tarantino in which she plays Sharon Tate, the most famous victim of the murder of Charles Manson, the 28-year-old still lived in a roommate in the south of London, where seven people were pressed into four rooms.

Clapham's overcrowded home, affectionately nicknamed "the mansion" by its inhabitants, was a feast of parties and drinking, followed by short excursions to gloomy nightclubs. It's here that Margot started her relationship with her husband, filmmaker Tom Ackerley, born in Surrey, and lived what she describes as "the best times".

The lease of the property was signed in early 2014, shortly after the release of the film that would give it its name: The Wolf Of Wall Street Martin Scorcese, in which she interpreted the seducer Naomi Lapaglia alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

Born in Australia, Margot, in London for the British premiere, took the opportunity to meet her British friends on the set of the French TV drama Suite Francaise.

The actress had established close ties with the London-based film crew and the old gang had rebadembled herself in the room of a prestigious hotel, paid by Paramount for Margot.

The meeting sparked a seemingly outrageous idea – that friends should all live together and recreate the fun they had on the set.

At the time, the former Neighborhood star, Margot, was on the threshold of world fame but still lived in suitcases as she crisscrossed the world to film, award prizes and present films. The prospect of a base suddenly became too seductive.

Three days later, the group signed a lease for this resolutely modest house, chosen to be affordable, even for the least paid crew member – even though Margot was worth several million pounds.

One of the house mates was the deputy director of French Suite, Tom, the son of a real estate agent, and that is by living nearby as their relationship grew.

It was a rowdy period according to anyone's criteria – certainly from the photos posted on the Instagram page of his former roommate.

In one of them from April 2014, titled "The House Degenerates", the brunette Margot is almost unrecognizable since she is laying on a roof with her new roommates.

A black-booted leg held in the air, tongue pulled like a rebellious teenager, she wears a naughty smile as she throws two fingers toward the camera with both hands.

Perhaps, prophetically, she was nominated best actress for an Oscar in 2018 for her role in I, Tonya, her t-shirt bears the slogan "The baits of the Oscars". A friend, Sophia Kerr, joins her as a group of young men parade through various undressing states.

Another snapshot posted a month later reveals a huge pile of garbage bags scattered in front of the house, filled with beer cans and empty bottles. A few days later, another message shows an ecstatic Margot sitting on the shoulders of a friend.

An acquaintance, who attended one of the feasts, remembers Margot's room as neglected, with a bed undone and clothes strewn on the floor.

She is within walking distance of her current home sharing – a pristine 4 bedroom villa in Los Angeles valued at £ 2.1 million, which she owned with Tom since 2017.

Despite her fame, Margot has always had a casual – and even nauseated – approach to life.

She grew up the third of four children at a Gold Coast fruit farm in Queensland, raised by her single mother with strong will, Sarie Kessler, whom she described as "unbelievable".

Sarie, born in Scotland, taught her children the importance of hard work and at the age of 16 Margot held three positions: cleaner, sandwich maker Subway and saleswoman.

She left home to pursue her acting career in Melbourne and was on a low-budget snowboard vacation in Canada ("in a van without doors") when she was called to participate in the Australian soap opera Neighbors. .

The show launched the international career of many singers and actors, including Kylie Minogue, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce. And after three years, Margot decided to try her luck in Los Angeles.

Having saved much of the money she earned on Neighbors, she chose to spend it on acting and dialect coaching. The investment has more than paid off.

In 2012, she was part of the Pan Am television series, composed of cabin crews from the 1960s, but that's her role in The Wolf Of Wall Street – which she won after wearing a slap without script to Leonardo DiCaprio's cheek during the audition – which drew her to the attention of Hollywood.

Then, early in 2016, while she was still living in Clapham, she was invited to play alongside Alexander Skarsgard in the blockbuster movie The Legend Of Tarzan, at a cost of £ 140 million.

It's at this moment that his career has really taken off. Skarsgard recalls being "blown away" by the coldness and simplicity of Margot.

He recalled: "She lived in a house with six other people, a kind of fraternal atmosphere. On weekends she went to Amsterdam sleeping in bunk beds in a hostel with Canadian backpackers or at a music festival. in northern England and sleep in a tent. It is not precious at all.

Margot seems to have been refreshing at the time against Hollywood, refusing to lose weight for the film, while quoting what she described laughing at the time as "selfish reasons".

Instead, she was determined to keep pace with her pints with her roommates.

"I was like a naughty schoolgirl," she told Vanity Fair.

"It was the first time I lived properly in London and I wanted to try all the cafes. I will not look slim for the sake of it.

Another photo on her friend's Instagram account shows Margot posing at South West Four, an electronic dance festival held at Clapham Common. She even admitted to having frequented the nightclub Infernos, a very famous local nightclub, famous for its sticky songs on the dance floor and its music of the 1990s.

Stating that even superstar DiCaprio would "love it," she said that on the nights she attended, she "looked so shocking that no one would look at him twice." All this is far from the well-constructed glamor of Beverly Hills.

But Margot has always insisted that her pleasures are much more earthly. She praised the unsuspected joys of life in Clapham in an interview with London luxury magazine The Resident in 2017.

"For me, where do you live and what should you be simplistic and comfortable, otherwise, how are you going to relax?" she says.

"Clapham 's always felt unpretentious in that you are left alone to keep being what you are, and that' s perfect. But I like to live with a lot of people. It reminds me of the house in which I grew up.

"It's funny – I always think I want privacy because I'm never alone, ever. But when I am, I hate him. After five minutes, I find people to go out with.

Despite their nascent history, Margot and Tom – who she has already described as "the most handsome man in London" – kept this secret, which would affect the group's dynamics. But the secret appeared and, she recalled, "bullshit hit the fan.Our house has become the Jerry Springer Show for a while.But then the dust has dissipated and everything is gone. went well.

The couple remained in the apartment despite the fact that Margot had an estimated value of 6 million pounds by 2016, thanks to her Tarzan paycheck. In fact, she said she had never spent a lot of money on rent or "staying beautiful".

"In fact, it makes me really anxious, just the idea," she told an Australian interviewer. "It seems foolish to spend huge sums on useless things.

"If I were a waitress, I would probably have exactly the same lifestyle. I would go to the same clubs that I already frequent, I lived in the same house with the same roommates, I was hanging out with the same people. I am rather frugal.

He is now credited with 12 million pounds sterling after playing in a series of box office successes, including Mary Queen of Scots.

But a certain degree of this success is tied to his roommates at the Manor. Tom and Margot teamed up with their roommates Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara to create their own production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, which produced Margot's most critically acclaimed film to date – I, Tonya.

After her marriage to Tom, which took place during a secret ceremony on a beach in Australia with a strict ban on mobile phones, their friends told them that it was time that they had a bedroom.

The newlyweds moved to West London and, after the production company began to take off, they made the decision to settle permanently in America.

Their shimmering home in Los Angeles is a world away from the mansion. There's an outdoor pool, manicured gardens, a deep soaking tub and marble fixtures.

Margot also traded her nights at Infernos for badtails with Australian actress Isla Fisher and model Cara Delevingne.

His career, meanwhile, should reach even more dazzling levels. Her upcoming film will see her appear alongside Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman in a film about Fox News women and the toxic culture they fought.

But whatever distance she has lost with her wild days at Clapham, it is unlikely that Margot or her roommates will forget them. If one believes the rumors, the tenure of seven residents of the Manor has been immortalized in the form of a matching tattoo, to the signature of Margot herself.