At age 27, Margot Robbie has already starred in a slew of award-winning films and started her own production company. She’s also presumed to be in the running for the 2018 Oscars Best Actress award for her role as villainous ice skater Tonya Harding in the upcoming film I, Tonya.
For whatever reason, though, some people would rather focus on Robbie’s recent marriage than on her countless career successes—even when she’s doing interviews to promote those aforementioned successes.
Robbie recently told Page Six that since she began making the promotional rounds for I, Tonya, many reporters have insisted on asking about her late-2016 marriage to longtime boyfriend Tom Ackerley. Robbie said she was patient at first, but it happened so many times that she had to speak up.
“I had a boss moment the other day,” Robbie said. “I was doing a press conference, and they kept asking me what it was like to be married. I said, ‘Being married is not my achievement. My achievement is producing this film and having a producing deal with a major studio—that is my achievement.'”
Sure, it’s awesome that Robbie’s in love and happily married to Ackerley. But she’s also not defined by her relationship status. So when she’s doing a promotional tour for an upcoming film (that she both starred in and produced, by the way), it’s more respectful, more productive, and all-around better for reporters to stick to the topic at hand. Why force Robbie into a conversation she clearly doesn’t want to have? And why risk overshadowing her many accomplishments with a discussion of something irrelevant, like her marriage?
Thankfully, it seems like Robbie’s self-proclaimed boss moment kept the interview on track. “Everyone shut up after that,” she said. “It was really nice.”