The co-star Margot Robbie couldn’t believe she got to work with: “I never thought I’d meet the guy”

Posted On June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

In the early days of trying to find projects for her newly formed production company LuckyChap Entertainment, Margot Robbie wanted nothing more than to take a chance on first-time filmmakers. She formed LuckyChap the year after she broke out as a Hollywood star with The Wolf of Wall Street, and was convinced she could champion new voices who would grow alongside her in the business.

One of the first projects Robbie took a gamble on first came across her desk – or her kitchen bench, to be exact – one unassuming morning. LuckyChap co-founder Josey McNamara had worked with a young filmmaker named Vaughn Stein when he was a second unit director on several big blockbusters such as Wonder Woman and Beauty and the Beast, and he had passed her a screenplay he’d written. Robbie was intrigued, so she picked up Terminal and gave it a read.

“I was like, ‘This is so weird. I love it. I love it so much,’” Robbie exclaimed to Daily Dead in 2018. “It’s so dark, and this dialogue scene is just going pages and pages, and that never happens in a script.” During that period, Robbie had a hankering for some stage work, and Stein’s verbose script scratched that dialogue-heavy itch. “I felt like I was reading a play,” she said. “I just wanted to make it.”

Of course, it helped that Stein hadn’t been afforded the chance to make his first film yet, so he perfectly fit Robbie’s brief. “People need to take a chance on directors, and if we don’t all jump in together, and band together to do that, it’s just not going to happen,” she reasoned. “So, we were like, ‘Let’s do it. We’re all friends. We all believe in it. Let’s give it a go.’”

Over the next couple of years, Robbie and Stein worked on refining and adding to the Terminal screenplay, which was a graphic novel-esque noir about the bizarre intertwining stories of a waitress, a pair of assassins, a dying teacher, and a janitor, all of whom become embroiled in a murder plot. Then, the cast began to come together when big names like Simon Pegg and Mike Myers signed on to join in the fun.

Myers’ involvement, in particular, was a revelation to Robbie because he had disappeared from live-action movies ever since a short cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds in 2009. For seven long years, his only credits were voice performances in the Shrek movies and appearances as himself in documentaries. For this reason, when Robbie and Stein began kicking around the idea of Myers playing the janitor, revealed to be multiple characters, each weirder than the last, they didn’t hold their breath about actually landing him.

“I don’t think any of us truly believed we’d get him,” Robbie admitted. “It’s kind of a crazy idea. We spoke a lot about finding a character actor for that role, someone who really utilises their physicality in their characters, and that’s how the conversation eventually led to speaking about Mike Myers and where the hell he is these days! Would he do this?”

To her amazement, the reclusive comedy genius spoke to Stein for five hours, spitballing an entire backstory for his characters as he went along. “I could hear him rustling through these sheets of paper with all these notes that he had just made,” Stein marvelled. Once the call ended, it didn’t take long for Robbie to get a reply saying, “He’s in.”

The star was gobsmacked in the best possible way because securing Myers’ involvement meant she could aim as high as she wanted in her projects, and had a very real chance of getting what she wanted. She smiled, “I never thought I’d ever meet the guy, let alone get to work with him.”

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