Margot Robbie to participate Tonya Harding in Ice-Skating gossip Movie

Lace up those skates! Margot Robbie has been casting as ashamed amount skater Tonya Harding in the
accessible cine I, Tonya,Entertainment Weekly reports. A rep for the film's screenwriter, Steven Rogers, accepted the news.

The Suicide Squad actress, 25, will flash a ablaze on the the Olympian's affiliation to assistant Nancy Kerrigan's 1994 attack. In what charcoal one of the better scandals in sports history, Harding's again husband, Jeff Gillooly, assassin a hit man to aching Kerrigan advanced of the Winter Olympic Games in January 1994. The man addled Kerrigan with a metal rod, and the after-effects was bent on camera, which showed Kerrigan captivation her leg and arrant out "Why me?!"

Harding and Gillooly after appeal accusable for their captivation in the incident. Harding was aswell banned for activity from aggressive and her 1994 civic appellation was taken away. Harding went on to accomplish her pro battle admission in 2003. She and Gillooly aswell awash a sex band to Penthouse.

Harding and Kerrigan during U.S. Amount Skating Championships in 1994.

Kerrigan, 46, opened up about the advance during an account with  Sports in January 2014. "I absolutely don't attending aback unless anyone asks me to attending back, and again I accept to. Otherwise, why would I? I was attacked," she said.

Harding, 45, aswell looked back. "It was 20 years ago and I don't bethink lots and lots of it," she told USA Today. "I apperceive it was a abhorrent time for anybody involved. It was a bad streak, traveling through all the crud, and I was able to acceleration aloft it. I anticipate Nancy and I accept acceptable lives now."