Margot Robbie has been famous for a long while now, quickly graduating from Neighbours to megastardom with Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.

Things got taken up a notch, and unfortunately for the worse, when she joined the DC Extended Universe as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad.

That means death threats, and all the extra financial cost that brings, which Margot says has actually influenced her to pick more high-profile projects, rather than fewer.

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"There's just all this stuff you learn along the way, like, when you get those death threats, it's [smart] to have a security team do a background check on whoever sent them to see if there is any past history of violence because you'll need to know whether you need security to go to certain events," Robbie told The Hollywood Reporter.

"And every time you do a background check, it's going to cost $2,000, so take that into consideration when you're getting yourself into this."

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She continued: "And it's like, 'OK, that's a different kind of career'. Because then you need to always do a job that can financially support that lifestyle.

"You can't just do indie films for the rest of your life because that film back there changed everything and now you have to be able to afford security.

"I just wish someone had explained a lot of those things to me early on. I wouldn't have resented the position I found myself in because I would've known what I was getting myself into."

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Margot said she wished someone just took her aside and said: "You're about to be in a comic book film; now here's the worst case scenario of how big and scary it can get."

So as well as not giving up blockbusters, Margot isn't giving up Harley Quinn either.

As well as Suicide Squad 2, it looks like she'll be returning to the character in up to another three projects, if you include the planned Joker spinoff, Gotham City Sirens and another Harley-related project that's "totally separate" from all those other movies.

From: Digital Spy