Margot Robbie is sharing a shocking costar tale from early on in her acting career.
The Wuthering Heights star, 35, paired up with Charli XCX — who provides the soundtrack to the new adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s classic novel — for a video interview with Complex in which they each took turns to reveal the worst gift they’ve ever received.
“Very, very early in my career, 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 was like, ‘Oh. F*** you, dude.’”
Robbie reiterated her shock at the incident. “He essentially gave me a book to let me know that I should lose weight,” she said.
Charli, 33, asked Robbie what the actor was up to today, to which the Oscar nominee responded, “I have no idea where he would even be now. [It was] really back in the day.”
“Your career’s over, babe,” Charli quipped, looking directly into the camera and addressing Robbie’s former costar.
Robbie plays protagonist Cathy opposite Jacob Elordi as 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 pointed out is described as “dark-skinned” in the book.
“I saw him play Heathcliff,” she told the outlet. “And he is Heathcliff. I’d say, just wait. Trust me, you’ll be happy.”
Robbie continued, “It’s a character 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 part of that is special. He’s incredible and I believe in him so much. I honestly 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 cover of the book that I’ve had since I was a teenager.”
The British filmmaker was equally beguiled by Robbie when it came 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 is disturbing and fascinating. It was about finding someone who you would forgive in spite of yourself, someone who literally everyone in the world would understand why you love her. It’s difficult to find 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 makes it look easy. Sometimes I think she has Hermione’s Time-Turner — she can raise a baby, shoot a movie, produce four 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.)
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