UPDATE: Allison Janney proves to be a powerhouse in the upcoming satirical Tonya Harding biopic, I, Tonya, in a new trailer for the flick released Wednesday. The West Wing actress plays Harding (Margo Robbie)'s mother LaVona Golden, who uses tough love to push her daughter toward Olympic gold. 
 
 "You call that a clean skate, for Christ's sake?" she screams at a young Harding in the trailer. "Do not swear in front of the kids," a fellow parent admonishes her, to which Janney-as-LaVona responds, "I didn't swear, ya c--t." 
 
 And another insult: "You skated like a graceless bull dike. I'm embarrassed for you." 
 
 The trailer also reveals a break in the film's fourth wall, with Robbie-as-Tonya directly addressing viewers at one point in the two-and-a-half-minute clip, shotgun in hand. 
 
 ORIGINAL STORY: Margot Robbie oscillates between fact and fiction as notorious figure skater Tonya Harding in the new teaser for, I, Tonya. The biopic premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and is set to open in New York and Los Angeles on December 8th, with a wide release scheduled for January 19th. 
 
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 The short clip opens with a delightfully ruthless image: Robbie, as Harding, stubbing out a cigarette butt with her skate blade before hitting the ice. The teaser captures the aesthetic of a classic sports movie with dramatic music, gorgeous footage of Harding gliding over the ice while rapt fans watch. It all inevitably leads up to the infamous attack on Nancy Kerrigan and ensuing scandal that ended with Harding's lifetime ban from U.S. Figure Skating. 
 
 "The haters always say, 'Tonya, tell the truth,'" Harding says in a voice over. "There's no such thing as truth – I mean it's bullshit!" 
 
 In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Robbie spoke about preparing for I, Tonya and admitted that, prior to reading to the script, she didn't know who Harding was. "I think I was about four years old when the incident took place," she said. "I was in Australia and totally unaware of the whole incident and the crazy controversy." Robbie added: "To be honest, when I read the script, I didn’t know who Tonya Harding was, and I didn't realize it was a true story. I thought it was entirely fictionalized and our writer Steve [Rogers] was so creative to come up with the quirky characters and absurd incidents." 
 
 Craig Gillespie directed I, Tonya, which also stars Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Walter Hauser, Julianne Nicholson and Mckenna Grace. 

 Published on Oct 19, 2017 
 
 Your first look at Margot Robbie sticking the landing as Tonya Harding in this December's hotly-anticipated comedy I, TONYA. Directed by Craig Gillespie and co-starring Sebastian Stan and Allison Janney. 

 Margot Robbie looks just like disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the first teaser for I, Tonya. 
 
 The footage comes as Oscar buzz continues to grow around her performance following rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival where it premiered in September. 
 
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 The movie follows Harding’s story from her early skating days to her training for the ’94 Winter Olympics before her ex-husband intervenes and tries to sabotage rival skater Kerrigan. The infamous event made headlines for its brutality and tale of rival ice princesses. 
 
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 Gillooly worked together to hire someone to attack Kerrigan. Though Harding long disputed her involvement, she was eventually convicted of hindering the investigation into the incident. She received three years probation, 500 hours of community service, and a $160,000 fine — and was ultimately banned from the U.S. Figure Skating Association for life. 
 
 In the I, Tonya teaser, Robbie uncannily mimics her voice, summarizing Harding’s plight with the public eye. 
 
 “America, they want someone to love. But they want someone to hate,” Robbie narrates in an eery imitation of Harding’s voice. “And the haters always say, ‘Tonya, tell the truth!’ There’s no such thing as truth. I mean, it’s bulls—.” 
 
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 The teaser also offers first looks of Allison Janney as Harding’s mother LaVona, and a mustache sporting Sebastian Stan as ex-husband and Nancy Kerrigan attack mastermind Jeff Gillooly. 
 
 I, Tonya opens in N.Y.C and Los Angeles on December 8.
– The first teaser trailer for Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya is out—and critics are very impressed with what they've seen of Margot Robbie's performance as the disgraced figure skater. The movie follows Harding's life from her early days skating to the aftermath of the infamous 1994 attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan, an attack she has long denied involvement in. "America, they want someone to love. But they want someone to hate," Robbie says in what People describes as an "eerie imitation" of Harding's voice. "And the haters always say, 'Tonya, tell the truth!' There's no such thing as truth. I mean, it’s bulls---." The clip depicts what Rolling Stone describes as a "delightfully ruthless" Harding stubbing out a cigarette under her skate before taking to the ice. Robbie, who grew up in Australia, told an interviewer earlier this year that she was only four years old when the scandal was in the news, and when she read the script for I,Tonya, she initially believed it was pure fiction. The movie, which also stars Sebastian Stan as ex-husband and Kerrigan attack mastermind Jeff Gilooly, will open in New York and Los Angeles and Dec. 8, with a wider release scheduled for Jan. 19.