Margot Robbie did what Quentin Tarantino wanted.
According to Margot Robbie, Quentin Tarantino ordered her deliberately not to scrub her feet before the iconic moment she starred in "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood."
In the next Tarantino film, Robbie played a fictionalised Sharon Tate, who reputedly disliked wearing shoes and preferred to wander around barefoot.
In one scene, Robbie takes off her shoes and props her feet up on the seat in front of her while watching a movie. The incident rapidly gained attention and even inspired jokes from Brad Pitt, who starred alongside Robbie.
In a recent episode of Vogue's YouTube series "Life in Looks," Robbie said that the decision to have her feet appear unclean in the film was purely accidental.
"Shortly after this, my character walks into a movie theater to see herself on the big screen and she kind of kicks off her go-go boots and puts her feet up and settles in to watch the movie," the "Barbie" star recalled.
"But my feet were dirty because I'd been walking around set. They stayed dirty in the movie because Quentin said, 'Don't. Don't clean them.'"
Robbie revealed, "Someone ran in to do it and he was like, 'No, it's real. Keep it.'"
Tarantino has faced criticism in the past for the numerous images of women's feet that appear in his films. There are 36 images of people's feet in "Once Upon a Time..." alone, including photos of both bare and shoed feet.