Margot Robbie reveals secret behind her viral Barbie high-heel scene: "They are my feet"

Margot Robbie refused to use a foot double for the Barbie shoe scene which went viral.

When the first trailer for Barbie, the live-action comedy based on the Mattel doll, dropped in April, netizens couldn't stop talking about the scene where the title character, played by Robbie, slips off her pink pom-pom high heels, showing off her perfectly-arched feet. 

Robbie, 32, wants the world to know that those were her actual feet, not a stunt double's. Nor were they computer generated. 

During an interview with Fandango, Robbie revealed: "It was probably about eight takes. Wasn’t that many. They are my feet. I walked up, we had little sticky bits on the floor, double-sided tape for the shoes, so they wouldn’t come off, so I could get my feet out of them.

"And I was holding onto, like, a bar. But that’s it. I wasn’t in a harness or anything like that. I just walked up, kind of held onto the bar above [the] camera."

When asked about her perfect arches, the Bombshell actress said: "I did ballet when I was a kid."

She also insisted she wanted to shoot the feet scenes herself because she hates using doubles.

"I always try and do my own inserts," she said. "I don’t like when I watch a movie and I know it’s not my hands. I hate that so much. I always say to the director, ‘Please let me do all my own things'. I don’t like knowing that I didn’t do it."

Watch the Barbie cast's Fandango interview here:

Barbie opens in cinemas on July 20. — BANG SHOWBIZ 

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