He says, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,’ ” Robbins says. “There’s a great quote by Henry David Thoreau. Apollo Robbins and Will Smith on the set of “Focus.” Frank MasiĪs they look at it together, Robbie reaches underneath the menu and inside the man’s jacket pocket.īut as much as the stars’ training was about the physical movements, it was also about philosophy. In this case, Robbie uses a restaurant host’s menu against him. The actress mastered one particularly difficult maneuver that is a twist on the classic European Gypsy move of walking up to a stranger with a map and stealing as the victim looks at it. Robbins coached Smith and Robbie over the course of three months. “They didn’t want to do the bump into somebody and just show the hand coming out ,” Robbins tells The Post. He’s been a Hollywood expert before, but “Focus” was its own beast. He eventually cleaned up his act, but kept the sneaky moves, becoming a top performer on the streets of Las Vegas, where he still resides. Robbins, 40, began shoplifting and pickpocketing as a teenager. The film involves many sleight-of-hand steals, so the directors called in Apollo Robbins to teach the stars the art of pickpocketing. In “Focus,” hitting theaters Friday, Will Smith and Margot Robbie star as con artists targeting the same mark.

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