Margaret Qualley Raises Eyebrows With Barefoot Shoes on Red Carpet

And, as one fan joked, “Inflation hit fashion it’s too expensive to make a full shoe.”

But Qualley is no stranger to putting her feet on display, as they were featured prominently during an un-foot-gettable moment in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. In the scene, Qualley’s character Pussycat props up her dirty feet after she’s picked up by stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). 

And while the scene went off boot-ifully, the Emmy nominee was initially nervous about showing off her feet after years as a ballerina.

“I genuinely was like, ‘Quentin, this is a bad idea. I don’t have good feet,’” she told IndieWire in 2019. “I was in pointe shoes for far too long to have toes that can be shown to the world.”

“We had a big debate about it, me, Quentin and Brad, with them trying to be like, ‘You’re fine,’ and me being like, ‘No, guys, really, look, these are not good,'” Qualley recalled. “‘I know that I undermine myself pretty regularly, but I’m genuinely telling you these are not good feet, look at these. I know I’m self-deprecating, but I’m not being in this particular instance.'”

Eventually, she “did the foot thing” and found that left her with newfound respect for her feet.

“I used to actually be pretty mortified with my feet,” she said. “Maybe I can finally just give up that now.”

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