Wolf Of Wall Street star Margot Robbie will be putting her feet to the ice when she plays the troubled ice skater Tonya Harding in the upcoming new film "I, Tonya. " As an Australian playing an American Ice Skater Robbie said that while she "didn't live through the incident or have any preconceived notions about the people or the event itself, She really got to approach the character with a fresh set of eyes.? Robbie hopes that with her new production company she can create and star in roles that tell stories about women from all over the world. I, Tonya tells the story of Tonya Harding and Jeff Gilooly, who hired a man to break the leg of Harding's competitor Nancy Kerrigan at the National Figure Skating Championship in 1994, which led to the end of Harding's career in figure skating and made national headlines.The emotionally resonant real-life story I, Tonya opens nationwide on December 8th.
