There are Hollywood actors who call in a stunt double at every opportunity. Then there are those that suffer for their art.

And while Tom Cruise has been parachuting off motorbikes and mountains for the new Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One, Margot Robbie would like you to know that she’s putting her body on the line for Barbie, too.

The actor has finally addressed the many questions that social media users had after the first trailer for Greta Gerwig's film dropped, which gave a cinematic nod to the original doll’s highly-arched feet. At the time, Chrissy Teigen tweeted: “I need to know everything about this shot. How many takes, if she held onto something, was she harnessed, is the landing mark sticky, are they her feet, who did the pedicure, really just a documentary on this shot.”

“Those are my feet,” Robbie confirmed to Fandango. “[There were] probably about eight takes, it wasn’t that many.”

She went on to explain the only slight bit of trickery there was in filming the iconic scene: “I walked up, we had little sticky bits on the floor – double-sided tape – for the shoes, so they wouldn’t come off. So that I could get my feet out of them. And I was holding on to a bar, but that’s it. I wasn’t in like a harness or anything. I just walked up and kind of held onto the bar above camera.”

Robbie went on to reveal that it turned out her own feet were kind of perfect for the role, which is why she didn’t need a body-double to stand in. “I did ballet when I was a kid. I always try and do my own inserts, like I don’t like when I watch a movie, and I know it’s not my hands. I hate that so much," she said. "I always say to the director, ‘Please let me do all my own things.’ I don’t like knowing I didn’t do it.” The Barbie Oscar campaign starts now.

Laura Martin is a freelance journalist  specializing in pop culture.

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