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I, Tonya charmed audiences and critics at this year’s TIFF, and, as biopics are wont to do, is gunning for some awards season recognition. The Margot Robbie-starring dramatization of Tonya Harding’s figure skating career and fall from grace is both hilarious and devastating, and will hit theaters in an awards-qualifying limited release on December 8.

The new Tonya Harding biopic is bound to be controversial for its satirical approach, but Sebastian Stan explains why comedy was essential for the Harding-Kerrigan story.

Margot Robbie is outstanding as Tonya Harding in this hilarious and sympathetic portrait of the scorned figure skater.

If you’re not lucky enough to attend the Toronto International Film Festival this year, you can spend it like the rest of us: keeping an ear to to the ground and trying to decide which TIFF releases will be must-see movies of 2017 and 2018. One early standout is I, Tonya, a humorous look at the life of infamous figure skater Tonya Harding. Our own Senior Editor has described it as darkly hilarious film with dynamite performances (review coming soon!), and that seems to be the general consensus: it’s funny, it’s twisted, and, for as much as any of you care, it’s an early contender for all kinds of award season glory.

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In case you haven’t heard, Margot Robbie is currently filming I, Tonya, a new biopic in which she plays disgraced former figure skating champ Tonya Harding. Although it’s a little disappointing that Anne Hathaway wasn’t cast as Nancy Kerrigan (I mean, come on), Robbie’s new film (which she’s also producing) is still riding high near the top of my most-anticipated list — and a new video from the set really seals the deal.

There’s no more thrilling scandal than a sports scandal, and the 1994 Detroit Figure Skating Championships attack on Nancy Kerrigan, in which fellow skater Tonya Harding was allegedly involved, if finally getting the big screen treatment, courtesy of Margot Robbie. Robbie, who will be playing the infamous Harding in I, Tonya, has found her match in Paper Towns actress Caitlin Carver, who will play Kerrigan.

Margot Robbie wasted no time leveraging her stardom into producing her own projects, including an upcoming DC all-female super-villain ensemble film (in which she’ll reprise the role of Harley Quinn) and, perhaps more interestingly, a biopic about disgraced former figure skater Tonya Harding. Today brings our first look at Robbie’s transformation for the title role in I, Tonya, which is a bit more physically involved than you might expect.

For an entire generation, the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan scandal is basically like the female equivalent of the O.J. Simpson trial — the source of just as much sensationalism, dissection and endless fascination. Harding has long been portrayed as the villain of the story, as most retellings tend to focus on Kerrigan’s more empathetic perspective and depict Harding in an unkind light. Margot Robbie is poised to change that with a new biopic on the disgraced figure skater, and she’s found a director to bring her vision to life.