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Margot Robbie and Allison Janney Share What It Was Like Playing Tonya and LaVona

Margot Robbie and Allison Janney Share What It Was Like Playing Tonya and LaVona

During a Q&A after a special screening of I, Tonya, Margot Robbie and Allison Janney — who play the mother-daughter duo in the film — talk about how they approached these notoriously tragicomic characters. 

At a recent Los Angeles screening of Golden Globe-nominated I, Tonya, the new darkly comic biopic from director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rogers about disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, the film's stars Margot Robbie and Allison Janney (appearing with the director and screenwriter) discussed how they developed their characters of Harding (Robbie) and her controlling mother, LaVona Golden.

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Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
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