Margot Robbie is sharing a shocking costar tale from early on in her acting profession.
The Wuthering Heights star, 35, paired up with Charli XCX — who provides the soundtrack to the brand new adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s classic novel — for a video interview with Complex during which they each took turns to disclose the worst gift they’ve ever received.
“Very, very early in my profession, an actor I worked with, a male actor, gave me a book called Why French Women Don’t Get Fat,” Robbie revealed, referring to a 2006 self-help book by Mireille Guiliano.
The Barbie star added, “And it was essentially a book telling you to eat less. I used to be like, ‘Oh. F*** you, dude.’”
Robbie reiterated her shock on the incident. “He essentially gave me a book to let me know that I should drop some weight,” she said.
Charli, 33, asked Robbie what the actor was as much as today, to which the Oscar nominee responded, “I don’t know where he would even be now. [It was] really back within the day.”
“Your profession’s over, babe,” Charli quipped, looking directly into the camera and addressing Robbie’s former costar.
Robbie plays protagonist Cathy opposite Jacob Elordi because the brooding Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell’s seductive remake of Wuthering Heights. The romantic drama is in theaters on Friday, February 13, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
In a December 2025 interview with British Vogue, Robbie, who also produces the movie, defended Elordi’s casting as Heathcliff, who some fans of the 1847 novel identified is described as “dark-skinned” within the book.
“I saw him play Heathcliff,” she told the outlet. “And he’s Heathcliff. I’d say, just wait. Trust me, you’ll be completely happy.”
Robbie continued, “It’s a personality that has this lineage of other great actors who’ve played him, from Laurence Olivier to Richard Burton and Ralph Fiennes to Tom Hardy. To be a component of that’s special. He’s incredible and I imagine in him a lot. I truthfully think he’s our generation’s Daniel Day-Lewis.”
Fennell, who previously collaborated with Elordi, 28, on Saltburn, said that Elordi captured “the Heathcliff on the quilt of the book that I’ve had since I used to be a youngster.”
February’s most-anticipated recent movie might be Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s already divisive adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel. Starring Margot Robbie as Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, the film is generating tons of buzz and is anticipated to interrupt records on the box office when it’s released 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, mean, a recreational sadist, a provocateur,” Fennell told British Vogue. “She engages in cruelty in a way that’s disturbing and engaging. It was about finding someone who you’d forgive regardless of yourself, someone who literally everyone on this planet would understand why you like her. It’s difficult to seek out that supersized star power. Margot comes with big d*** energy. That’s what Cathy needs.”
Elordi also praised Robbie, telling Vogue, “Margot is a force. And she or he makes it look easy. Sometimes I believe she has Hermione’s Time-Turner — she will be able to raise a baby, shoot a movie, produce 4 others and still meet for a beer at 5 p.m.” (Robbie welcomed her first child, a baby boy, with husband Tom Ackerley in October 2024.)