It was on the 2013 set of the World War II romantic drama Suite Francaise that Margot Robbie met her best friends, producing partners and future husband.
Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara were assistant directors at the time, but, like Robbie, who was not yet the A-lister she would become, they aspired to careers far grander than the ones they had. “We were all like, ‘I want to make my own stuff,’” recalls Robbie, with Ackerley, now her husband, adding, “It was a bit of, ‘If they’re doing it, why can’t we?’”
So, in 2014, the trio, along with Robbie’s childhood friend Sophia Kerr, launched LuckyChap Entertainment out of a London home that the then 20-somethings moved into when filming was done. The company’s first release, I, Tonya, the black…