We’re going to start this off with a request: if your profession involves the handling of dead bodies, please help us understand why dismembered feet are the body part most likely to wash up on a shore.
We aren’t subjected to reports of single arms floating up the coast, nor are we privy to waves of decapitated heads crashing onto beaches. It’s always bloody feet. Always.
Hell, even Margot Robbie has a story of discovering a rogue foot appearing on the sand.
Speaking as part of The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural live roundtable, the Australian actress revealed that she once stumbled across an abandoned stomper on a Nicaraguan beach.
“I recently did a film, and the director asked if everyone could write down the craziest thing that has happened to them in their lives,” Robbie told Bryan Cranston, Octavia Spencer, Diane Kruger, Robert Pattinson, and Armie Hammer.
I had spent two months with this group of people, probably about 60 people, and everyone seems super normal. And then everyone had to write down the craziest thing that happened to them, and it was released on the last day, and you had to guess whose story matched up with who. It just reminded me that fascinating people are everywhere. Everywhere. Someone had been engaged to the princess of Zanzibar. Someone else had been in a plane crash where only 10 people survived. It just reminds you there are fascinating stories everywhere. Everyone has a story.
As it turns out, her story involves someone’s missing phalanges.
“I once found — and no one guessed that this was me — I found a human foot on the beach in Nicaragua,” Robbie said.
Somehow, that’s basically all the information The Hollywood Reporter managed to capture about the experience, but Cranston did manage to joke “she uses it as a door stop.”
That’s not the only compelling admission gleaned from the roundtable. Discussing the ongoing reaction to sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry, Robbie described a support group growing behind the scenes.
“Actresses — who if I met them, I’d be starstruck — are reaching out to be like, ‘Hey, there’s a group of us having a conversation about this, do you want to be involved?’” Robbie said.
“There is a sense of community, and it’s sad that that had to come out of a horrible situation, but there is a support network there.”
You can read the full chat – which also includes Hammer’s explanation for his Twitter departure, and a recollection Spencer’s run-in with the mind behind Mindhunter – right HERE.
