Margot Robbie is sharing a stunning costar story from early on in her performing profession.
The Wuthering Heights star, 35, paired up with Charli XCX — who supplies the soundtrack to the brand new adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s traditional novel — for a video interview with Advanced wherein they every took turns to disclose the worst present they’ve ever acquired.
“Very, very early in my profession, an actor I labored with, a male actor, gave me a e-book referred to as Why French Ladies Don’t Get Fats,” Robbie revealed, referring to a 2006 self-help e-book by Mireille Guiliano.
The Barbie star added, “And it was primarily a e-book telling you to eat much less. I used to be like, ‘Oh. F*** you, dude.’”
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” begins with a sexually charged public hanging. Evidently, it’s apparent from the opening seconds anybody who missed the memo from the sexy trailer will shortly perceive that this model of the English traditional will take some liberties. That’s what these quotes across the title are for, in spite of everything. E book (…)
Robbie reiterated her shock on the incident. “He primarily gave me a e-book to let me know that I ought to shed some pounds,” she stated.
Charli, 33, requested Robbie what the actor was as much as right now, to which the Oscar nominee responded, “I do not know the place he would even be now. (It was) actually again within the day.”
“Your profession’s over, babe,” Charli quipped, wanting instantly into the digicam and addressing Robbie’s former costar.
Robbie performs protagonist Cathy reverse Jacob Elord because the brooding Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell’s seductive remake of Wuthering Heights. The romantic drama is in theaters on Friday, February 13, simply in time for Valentine’s Day.
In a December 2025 interview with British VogueRobbie, who additionally produces the film, defended Elordi’s casting as Heathcliffwho some followers of the 1847 novel identified is described as “dark-skinned” within the e-book.
“I noticed him play Heathcliff,” she advised the outlet. “And he’s Heathcliff. I’d say, simply wait. Belief me, you’ll be completely happy.”
Robbie continued, “It’s a personality that has this lineage of different nice actors who’ve performed him, from Laurence Olivier to Richard Burton and Ralph Fiennes to Tom Hardy. To be part of that’s particular. He’s unbelievable and I imagine in him a lot. I actually suppose he’s our technology’s Daniel Day-Lewis.”
Fennell, who beforehand collaborated with Elordi, 28, on Saltburnstated that Elordi captured “the Heathcliff on the duvet of the e-book that I’ve had since I used to be a teen.”
February’s most-anticipated new film might be Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s already divisive adaptation of Emily Brontë’s traditional 1847 novel. Starring Margot Robbie as Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, the movie is producing tons of buzz and is anticipated to interrupt data on the field workplace when it’s launched on February 13. If (…)
The British filmmaker was equally beguiled by Robbie when it got here to casting Cathy.
“Cathy is a star. She’s willful, imply, a leisure sadist, a provocateur,” Fennell advised British Vogue. “She engages in cruelty in a manner that’s disturbing and engaging. It was about discovering somebody who you’ll forgive despite your self, somebody who actually everybody on the earth would perceive why you like her. It’s troublesome to seek out that supersized star energy. Margot comes with huge d*** vitality. That’s what Cathy wants.”
Elordi additionally praised Robbie, telling Vogue“Margot is a power. And he or she makes it look straightforward. Generally I feel she has Hermione’s Time-Turner — she will be able to increase a child, shoot a film, produce 4 others and nonetheless meet for a beer at 5 p.m.” (Robbie welcomed her first babya child boy, with husband Tom Ackerley in October 2024.)