Feb. 08--Forget the Super Bowl scores. There was more math after the game when Tina Fey and Margot Robbie explained the "4-10-4" attractiveness scale Sunday on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
"When you go to a place where you're one of very few women, you suddenly become like super attractive to everyone," said Fey, who plays a journalist on assignment in Afghanistan in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." "In the movie, it's referred to as the phenomenon that's called '4-10-4.' You're a 4 at home and you ship out, you're a 10 and then you go home, you're a 4 again."
In the movie, Fey's character is deemed a 6/7 in New York and a 9/borderline 10 in Afghanistan. Robbie, 25, plays a fellow correspondent who considers herself a 15 in Afghanistan.
The comedy is based on the 2011 memoir "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by former Tribune reporter Kim Barker.
"Did you just hear like comedy and Afghanistan and (say) 'I'm in?'" Colbert asked Fey.
"Exactly, I thought what do people want more than anything? Me and (Robbie) in a lot of big coats, covered in dust. Drunk," Fey replied.
Fey, who trained at Second City, said New Mexico was used a backdrop to make it seem like they were in Afghanistan.
"That took a lot of courage for you guys to go to New Mexico," Colbert said.
"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," which also stars Billy Bob Thorton and Christopher Abbott, is slated to be released March 4.
"The Late Show" airs weeknights on CBS at 10:35 p.m.
