It’s the indie release we weren’t predicting from Margot Robbie. And it enters the world via the same origin story that birthed so many brilliant (and not so brilliant) ideas; half-joking over drinks with friends. “We’re all big gin drinkers and we joked about making our own so we’d never run dry,” says the Australian actor and film producer. “This seemed like a wonderful way to keep drinking gin together and be able to call it ‘work’.” Genius.
The scene was set in Robbie and her film producer husband Tom Ackerley’s Los Angeles backyard in 2018. The players: the film-industry power couple and their friends Josey McNamara, a producer and the couple’s former flatmate, producer Regan Riskas Maas who befriended Robbie working on a film set and her husband Charlie Maas, an ad man. The crew had heard all the advice about not going(2017), (2020) and (2023) – so why not do it again? McNamara says going from film development to booze was a thrilling progression, “We have approached every step of this journey with the idea that we have to be having fun along the way, and I think this has had a positive impact on our creativity and purpose.”
