I, Tonya review – Margot Robbie superbly uninhibited as reviled ice-skater

With such a dynamic central performance, this hilarious mockumentary account of Tonya Harding’s rivalry with Nancy Kerrigan skates close to celebrating herI, Tonya is a bleakly hilarious tale of absolute unrepentance.

It’s based on the true story of Us figure skater Tonya Harding: reviled as the blue-collar, white-trash, black-hearted villain who at the very least attempted to cover up her ex-husband Jeff’s grotesque assault on her rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.

He’d hired a couple of chaotic goons in 1994 to whack Nancy in the knee with a baton.Margot Robbie gives a fantastically uninhibited performance as Tonya, fighting her way to the top from humble beginnings, frizzy of hair, angry of demeanour, often bringing out a raptor grimace on the ice, denoting pain or gloating triumph.

Robbie has to suppress her natural glamour and poise for this: she is perhaps more obvious casting in a film called I,

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