Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie were both looking for some magic.

Each of them had recently made the biggest projects of their careers. Robbie’s was Barbie , the $1.4 billion blockbuster hit that earned eight Oscar nominations. Farrell’s was The Penguin , the gritty HBO series in which he transformed (with about three hours a day of prosthetics and makeup) into Gotham City’s infamous villain.

They followed up those two iconic characters with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, an original romance about two strangers taken on an unexpected journey. “Going from The Penguin to this was quite simply stepping from the darkness into the light,” Farrell tells Vanity Fair. “As amazing as it was to work on The Penguin, that story was all about trauma and its various articulations a

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