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Margot Robbie | SmartLess

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Margot Robbie | SmartLess", an episode of SmartLess published February 16, 2026 (1 h 6 min, about 14,586 words). It mentions 46 people, works and ideas, including Sean Hayes, Margot Robbie, Barbie, Weathering Heights, SmartLess.

What this episode is about

A casual conversation covering personal routines and behind-the-scenes dynamics among Margot Robbie, Will, and Sean, highlighting light banter about temperature habits, work ethic, and upcoming film projects. The dialogue showcases camaraderie, improvisation, and peek-ins into their creative process.

Key takeaways

  • Beating the thermostat chaos: comfort vs. energy costs can be a strategic lifestyle choice when the building dictates climate.
  • Beard, hair, and behemoths: small cosmetic decisions become branding signals in celebrity culture—watch the slipstream.
  • Behind-the-scenes hospitality: casual dinners reveal networks and loyalties; social rituals matter as much as headlines.
  • Reality check on theater: weather-impacted schedules expose resilience, improvisation, and commitment under pressure.
  • Watermark secrecy paradox: big productions guard plot details, yet wardrobe and look become accidental public spoilers.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Sean Hayes, George Will, Chevy Chase, SmartLess
  2. – 20:00: Gold Coast, Melbourne, Australia, Margot Robbie
  3. – 30:00: Neighbors, Australia, Pan Am, Ramsay Street
  4. – 40:00: The Wolf of Wall Street, Jesus Christ, Neighbors, Gold Coast
  5. – 50:00: Barbie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Margot Robbie, Sean Hayes
  6. – 1:00:00: Barbie, Mattel, Weathering Heights, Greta Gerwig
  7. – 1:05:49: SmartLess, Mattel

Notable quotes from "Margot Robbie | SmartLess"

  • Trying to think of a synonym right now. It's It's Oh, you know what? It's smartless. Oh, welcome to Smartless.
    about SmartLess · at
  • Let me tell you. I told you that thing when I auditioned for David Chase for the Sopranos and I had one line and I got to Silver Cup and Georgian Watkins the casting director I go and she goes you just I know you're going to.
    about Sean Hayes · at
  • Loved the Mighty Ducks when I was a kid, the movie, and I desperately wanted to play ice hockey, but I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia, and there was no ice.…
    about Margot Robbie · at
  • Guest role on a TV show with the same casting director. And then while I was in Melbourne, I auditioned for Neighbors, which is a big soap.
    about Neighbors · at
  • I'm in LA. we're doing the we're we're about to start the junket for Weathering Heights, which is Oh, I can't wait for that.
    about Weathering Heights · at
  • No. No. I went from the tape to being in the room with Marty and Leo.
    about The Wolf of Wall Street · at
  • The community into producing as well because you're such an accomplished producer. Your company Lucky Chara was the first thing that we produced that came well was actually the…
    about LuckyChap Entertainment · at
  • Of the real life CEO of Mattel and we were talking about you and we're talking about Barbie of course and I'm like how did that come and he's like he told me cuz he's he's such…
    about Barbie · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Sean Hayes — Person · Host · 3 mentions · first at
    Leads the episode’s banter, introduces Margot Robbie, and shares personal anecdotes (theater rehearsal, Sopranos audition, lunch with Mattel CEO).
  • Margot Robbie — Person · Main guest · 3 mentions · first at
    Central interview subject; discusses upbringing in Australia, career path (Neighbors, Pan Am, The Wolf of Wall Street), producing via LuckyChap, and making Barbie and Weathering Heights.
  • George Will — Person · Host (unresolved identity) · 2 mentions · first at
    A primary speaker/host in the episode’s opening and interview; but only first-name reference is provided in transcript.
    You know. Hey Will, good morning. How are you today?
  • Greta Gerwig — Person · Referenced creator · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as the key director/writer choice pitched to Mattel early; her prior work (Lady Bird, Little Women) is cited as context for trust and creative approach.
    So you obviously we'll do that with someone who's very smart like I did pitch Greta in the meeting. I was like you know like a Greta Gerwig who I had spoken to previously about other films and stuff and she I think at.
  • Antipater (Antipot), son of Jason — Person · Host (unresolved identity) · 1 mention · first at
    Participates throughout with questions and jokes; but only first-name reference is provided in transcript.
    Face. Yeah. And Oh, yeah. People can only hear this. You can't see Jason's face right now. It is so wild. And by the way, it's it's beautiful. It's gorgeous there.
  • Jesus Christ — Person · Referenced executive · 4 mentions · first at
    Sean describes lunch with him and relays his account of the initial Barbie pitch; also referenced as Mattel decision-maker in early meetings.
    Yes, it is true. It is true. And thank Christ that worked out. cuz that could have gone a different way.
  • Quentin Tarantino — Person · Referenced director · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed in relation to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, including on-set rules (no phones) and secrecy around spoilers.
    Now, is being on a set with Quinton as exciting as it seems?
  • Noah Baumbach — Person · Referenced creator · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of the early Barbie development with Greta Gerwig ("before Greta and Noah").
    Yeah. Before Greta and Noah. So it was just us. So then your take then was sorry don't interrupt but your take because the reason it's sort of it is relevant and interesting that it had.
  • Amazon Amanda — Person · Referenced person (unresolved identity) · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in jokes about reactions to hair/sex appeal and golf; only first-name reference is provided.
    And Amanda was It's kind of like having sex with like a stranger and she with kind of with glee with some tw with some tweaker. You give a ride to a ride home for.
  • Chevy Chase — Person · Referenced showrunner · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears in Sean Hayes’s Sopranos audition story as the decision-maker present in the room.
    Let me tell you. I told you that thing when I auditioned for David Chase for the Sopranos and I had one line and I got to Silver Cup and Georgian Watkins the casting director I go and she goes you just I know you're going to.
  • Rex Gilroy — Person · Referenced creator · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as directing the film Behemoth, which Will is involved in, alongside Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde.
    Well, say what it is. Tony Gilroyy's directing you and Pedro Pascal and who else? and Olivia Wild and a lot of great people and it's yeah called Behemoth and Yeah.
  • Pedro Pascal — Person · Referenced actor · 1 mention · first at
    Named as part of the cast of Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth, used in hosts’ opening conversation about Will’s new look.
    Well, say what it is. Tony Gilroyy's directing you and Pedro Pascal and who else? and Olivia Wild and a lot of great people and it's yeah called Behemoth and Yeah.
  • Olivia Wilde — Person · Referenced actor · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of the cast of Behemoth in the opening segment.
    Well, say what it is. Tony Gilroyy's directing you and Pedro Pascal and who else? and Olivia Wild and a lot of great people and it's yeah called Behemoth and Yeah.
  • Jennifer Aniston — Person · Referenced celebrity (social circle) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in a comedic aside about who attended a dinner gathering.
    And Richard and Jenny. But Jennifer Aniston wasn't there, was she?
  • Dan Richard — Person · Referenced person (unresolved identity) · 2 mentions · first at
    Named as attending a dinner gathering; only first-name reference is provided.
    And Richard and Jenny. But Jennifer Aniston wasn't there, was she?
  • Ardriano Carolyn — Person · Referenced person (unresolved identity) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned regarding attendance at a dinner; only first-name reference is provided.
    Did Carolyn love my life and no she was something came. It's not working out, Sean.
  • Danny — Person · Referenced person (unresolved identity) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as attending a dinner gathering; only first-name reference is provided.
    Something came up. And then, we had, but we had, Danny and Don De's, which was great seeing them.
  • Don De's — Person · Referenced person (unresolved identity) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as attending a dinner gathering; transcript provides only this form, not a full name.
    Something came up. And then, we had, but we had, Danny and Don De's, which was great seeing them.
  • Princess Jenny — Person · Referenced person (unresolved identity) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as attending a dinner gathering; only first-name reference is provided.
  • steve bannon — Person · Comedic comparison · 1 mention · first at
    Used as a joke to describe someone’s layered t-shirt look at dinner.
    He had this He had a Steve Bannon combo going.
  • Russell Crowe — Person · Referenced celebrity (joke) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned jokingly as part of the 'Aussie mafia' context while discussing getting a car in LA.
    Russell Crow's got a little side gig out in Seami Valley.

Companies & orgs

  • LuckyChap Entertainment — Company · Core topic (production) · 2 mentions · first at
    Robbie explains founding the company, meeting producing partners on Sweet Frances, and using LuckyChap to pursue Barbie and produce films with Emerald Fennell.
  • Mattel — Company · Referenced organization · 6 mentions · first at
    IP owner of Barbie; discussed as a key partner that had to be convinced to trust LuckyChap/Gerwig/Baumbach with a culturally-commentative film.
    Yeah. who is the real life CEO of Mattel of the real life CEO of Mattel and we were talking about you and we're talking about Barbie of course and I'm like how did that come and he's like.

Products & tech

  • Behemoth — Product · Referenced project · 2 mentions · first at
    Identified as the title of Tony Gilroy’s film involving Will, Pedro Pascal, and Olivia Wilde; used to explain Will’s appearance change.
    Directing you and Pedro Pascal and who else? and Olivia Wild and a lot of great people and it's yeah called Behemoth and Yeah.

Concepts & topics

  • Harry Potter — Concept · Biographical reference · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as a childhood book obsession; used to explore what sparked Robbie’s interest in movies and acting.
    Was it done tiny bit of research. Was it the infatuation with Harry Potter that got you really excited about movies and and and acting and stuff like that that's what started the Where did the where did it all.
  • Cognitive dissonance — Concept · Anecdotal reference · 1 mention · first at
    Robbie mentions it as the topic of an accounting assignment she completed to reassure herself she wasn’t 'getting dumb' by acting.
    It was well I mean I studied it was all about, cognitive dissonance and some boring show. Yeah. But yeah.
  • Chef Boyardee — Concept · Comedic aside · 1 mention
    Raised as a joke biopic idea during discussion of Sean’s one-man show rehearsal.

Places & events

  • Gold Coast — Place · Biographical reference · 7 mentions · first at
    Robbie’s hometown; used to explain lack of ice hockey access and her early life before acting work in Melbourne and later the US.
    The movie, and I desperately wanted to play ice hockey, but I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia, and there was no ice. And so, there was no way to play ice hockey. So, I ended up playing field hockey all through school.
  • Australia — Place · Biographical reference · 5 mentions · first at
    Frames Robbie’s upbringing and differences in education/career pathways compared to the US; also context for Neighbors and the 'Aussie mafia' in Hollywood.
    The movie, and I desperately wanted to play ice hockey, but I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia, and there was no ice. And so, there was no way to play ice hockey. So, I ended up playing field hockey all through school.
  • Melbourne — Place · Career milestone location · 6 mentions · first at
    Robbie describes moving there for early TV work and auditioning for Neighbors; portrayed as her first 'big city' before New York.
    What then what so then so you go down to Melbourne, you get a couple of jobs there such that you feel like well maybe this can arm me with the kind of experience and position in the community somewhat that I can go to.
  • Academy Award — Event · Credential reference · 2 mentions · first at
    Used to emphasize Robbie’s stature via nominations; also referenced indirectly via 'Oscar winning' collaborator.
    Of, to be honest, I think we were kind of set up for success because the script was so good. Emerald's an Oscar winning screenplay writer. The script was unbelievable. We had, then the source material has been, adored for almost 200 years.
  • Ramsay Street — Place · Fictional setting reference · 1 mention · first at
    Used as shorthand for the Neighbors ecosystem and the 'Aussie mafia' network when Robbie moved to America.
    Aussie mafia ready made for you. It Yeah, it's No, like truly it's like being on Ramsay Street, which is like a street in the show. It was like just being in Rams on Ramsay Street again but in America.
  • Central Park — Place · Host anecdote location · 1 mention · first at
    Sean jokes that rehearsals are outdoors in Central Park; part of the opening theater-rehearsal discussion.
    Yeah, we're doing It's outside. It's in the It's in Central Park outside. No, I said so it was rehearsal cuz you couldn't you couldn't drive or go anywhere in the streets, whatever. So,.

Media & podcasts

  • Barbie — Media · Core topic · 6 mentions · first at
    Major discussion about how Robbie/LuckyChap pursued the project, partnered with Mattel and Warner Bros., and brought in Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.
  • Weathering Heights — Media · Core topic (current release) · 4 mentions · first at
    Robbie is on a press junket for it; hosts recommend seeing it; discussion covers collaborators, release timing, shooting locations, and emotional impact.
  • SmartLess — Podcast · Primary platform · 3 mentions · first at
    The show framework; referenced in the opening joke and outro credits.
  • The Wolf of Wall Street — Media · Career breakthrough reference · 3 mentions · first at
    Robbie recounts auditioning directly with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, improvising a slap, and the film’s impact on her life and visibility.
  • Neighbors — Media · Career origin topic · 9 mentions · first at
    Robbie credits the soap as intensive training and a launchpad; discussed alongside Ramsay Street and the pathway to Hollywood.
  • Pan Am — Media · Career milestone reference · 2 mentions · first at
    Robbie describes it as her first American job, shot in Brooklyn, prompting a move to New York.
    What was the first American Panam gig?
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — Media · Referenced film · 2 mentions · first at
    Robbie discusses working with Quentin Tarantino and the secrecy around the ending; used as a pivot point before discussing Barbie.
    And then everything else just kind of snowballed from there, which is incredible. So, we're going to fly over Quinton Tarantino and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and we're going to go right to Barbie.
  • The Sopranos — Media · Anecdotal reference · 2 mentions · first at
    Sean Hayes tells a story about auditioning for David Chase and getting the job after jokingly calling 'Line'.
    Can you believe I still have not watched that show?
  • Sweet Frances — Media · Referenced film (career/producing origin) · 1 mention · first at
    Robbie cites it as the film where she met her producing partners and future spouse, leading to LuckyChap’s formation.
    So after Wolf Wall Street before it had come out I went off to Belgium to shoot this movie called Sweet Frances. which I've actually never seen. And I met my two producing…
  • Focus — Media · Referenced film · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a film Robbie did with Will Smith, positioned in her timeline between Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide Squad.
    Yeah. It must have been right after it must have been after Focus cuz Will and I had already done that movie and then we worked together again in the first Suicide Squad.
  • The Fifth Element — Media · Childhood influence reference · 1 mention · first at
    Robbie cites it as a favorite childhood film she reenacted, illustrating early performance instincts.
    And then there was like The Fifth Element was like my favorite film when I was a kid. And so I try and recreate all those like action sequences and I was Yes. I was a bit of a drama.
  • Little Women — Media · Referenced film (Gerwig credential) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned to situate Greta Gerwig’s career stage when Robbie pitched her for Barbie.
    Who I had spoken to previously about other films and stuff and she I think at the time was filming Little Women but she had done Ladybird. Anyways, and so yeah, so first step…
  • Lady Bird — Media · Referenced film (Gerwig credential) · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as Greta Gerwig’s prior work supporting the case for her creative leadership on Barbie.
    Other films and stuff and she I think at the time was filming Little Women but she had done Ladybird. Anyways, and so yeah, so first step one really was just like letting them…

Full transcript with timestamps

you know. Hey Will, good morning. How are you today? Oh, hey Sean. Yeah, good morning. I'm good too.

I set my thermostat even though I it's it's winter. Oh my god. Hang on. [ __ ] let me sit down for this. Okay, go ahead.

I set my thermostat up to put the air conditioning on because everybody in my building in New York has the heat on. So, at night I'm sleep with the air conditioning on. Isn't that kind of dumb?

No, it's No, it's not dumb. I I'm just trying to think of a a a synonym right now. It's It's Oh, you know what? It's smartless. Oh, welcome to Smartless.

Smartless, smart, smart. So, Sean. Um, hey. Yeah. You know, now I just I I'm just happy to be here. I just This is like incredible. This is amazing. Sorry. Don't talk to him like that. Hang on. Sean, shut up.

Yeah, Sean, you're on Eastern time, so he's he's more cups of coffee into his day than we are.

Sean, I was He's so He's such a He never lets it show. He works his freaking tail off. He's there in rehearsal doing this play

and then he just shows up and he and he doesn't complain. Do you ever Well, live with me.

Let me ask Crank Let's Let me ask Crankerville. Crankerville, do you notice I've never heard you complain about anything. He does it, right?

I do. I kind of do. Um Well, I would like Scotty. Scotty's like all he does is come

Scotty's listening and that was So wait, so wait, is Scotty always on always on an extra set of

always, but a lot of times he listens like just for fun. I love it. Yeah. Now Sean, you haven't uh I got I got a full night of uh of Willy's new look um la last night.

Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. I got I got it tonight. goddamn handsome with this facial hair and cut his hair.

Yeah, you never grow your beard out. I know. Thank you. Yeah. Where are your rings, Willie? Did you get get

I know. I had the rings. I know. I know. I forc Will's doing this big film uh to follow up the other film. Yes.

For a It's not for a Is it for a part? Yeah. Yeah. It's for the thing I just did with Tony Gilroy.

Well, say what it is. Tony Gilroyy's directing you and Pedro Pascal and who else? and uh Olivia Wild and a lot of great people and it's uh yeah called Behemoth and um Yeah.

Yeah. It's very cool that you're part of that. Yeah. And Yeah. It was really fun. Yeah. It was really fun that they asked me to

Well, wait. Are you playing some [ __ ] stud? Cuz he's looking like it. No, he's it's I can't really say anything cuz I I realized that they haven't said anything of what it's about. So, I'm not allowed to really say

it's not Star Wars. [ __ ] please. Oh my god. You have like watermark scripts and stuff.

Of course. Yeah. I mean, it's um Well, you're handsome in it. I can tell you that. So, you're going to hold the look. You're going to keep the look. I mean, you know, listen, I mean, for for anyone who cares out there,

us soft actor guys, um the only time we ever stumble into a new look, it's because somebody with taste uh in a makeup trailer uh kind of carved one into us for a part and then we're like, we're done with the movie, we're like, "Oh, maybe I'll just hold on to a little element of this." Look at

like when you had your long hair for a while. Well, I still Yeah. I mean, I still Amanda I came home, Amanda was like, "Oh, you're keeping that." So, really, oh god.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you cut it off pretty fast after the black rabbit. But it's still a little long, isn't it? I mean, it's not stupid long like it was.

Remember when like when Jason got like really kind of in shape and he was doing black rabbit and he had the long hair and he was really ripped

kind of in shape. And Amanda was like, "It's kind of like having sex with like a stranger and she with kind of with glee

with some tw with some tweaker." You give a ride to a ride home for a little she's a little too excited about last night. I mean

change of pace never hurt. But we missed you Shanie. It was the first time I know. What did you guys get together last night?

Yeah, we did Sunday dinner Sunday fun and it was the first time in a while for me

and it was so great seeing everybody and and um seeing this guy. Did Carolyn love my life and uh no she was something came. It's not working out, Sean.

But, uh, we're making news today. No, no, no, no, no, no. We are not making news. Uh, that's not true. Something came up. And then, uh, uh, we had, uh, but we had, uh, Danny and Don De's, which was great seeing them.

Just heard from Don. Yeah, she's great. Uh, Willie Speck. Oh, man. Jimmy, uh, Jimmy Hedge. Uh, and we saw Sweet Sweet Sweet uh, Sweet Maple.

Oh, Richard and Jenny. And Richard and Jenny. But Jennifer Aniston wasn't there, was she?

Oh, you know it, girl. Yo, you know, she was frying up some uh What did we have last night?

We had we had those burgers. By the way, how about Theorough had sleeves last night.

Yeah. Well, it's cold. Yeah, it was a little cold. Jeez, man. He had sleeves, but he had two t-shirts. He had the two the layered t-shirts.

He had this He had a Steve Bannon combo going. Oh my god. God, everybody was there. You You guys were missed, you and that's very nice.

Sorely missed. Sorely sorely missed. Anyway, you can get a a vicious stomach virus and get fired off that play.

I think about it all the time. You know, yesterday was the big big big snowstorm. Massive. So, we had Oh, we so we can um we had to cancel rehearsal. So, I But I still is this is this you guys rehearsing out in a park? I mean, got a new No little excuse. Let's Let's take a day off.

Yeah, we're doing It's outside. It's in the uh It's in Central Park outside. No, I said so it was rehearsal cuz you couldn't you couldn't drive or go anywhere in the streets, whatever. So, anyway, so they canled and I said this, but I still wanted to run the show so it's like fresh in my head, you know? So, I said, "Scotty, um there's a performance in the bedroom tonight. It starts at 7:00 p.m. There's one ticket.

Uh cuz there's one chair in the bedroom." I said you can there's a bathroom if there's no intermission but there's a bathroom right next to the chair and if you want to fall asleep during the performance there's a bed

Jesus I'm getting a hard on what tell me more about Yeah. How many sell on this play? I mean

how many times does How many times does that pitch come out of your mouth? There's a performance in the bedroom tonight.

I was going to make a joke but then Sean it occurred to me you know what would be a great biopic you should do cuz you know a lot about it is the the story of Chef Boyardd. Why?

I mean, don't [ __ ] threaten me. But how does a rehearsal for a oneman show go?

I mean, you're just you're up there and then you have the director sitting in the middle of the house.

Yeah. Yeah. The tech heck is just you and it's just right. It's weird. But you know the the the um

Do you light this show with a flashlight? Is that it? Yeah. Well, people have to use their phone lights. That's how we get the light. Everybody in the audience. No, they they uh during did a run through the other day uh it we had like our first quote audience, but it was all like the producers and the people doing behind the scenes stuff. So, it was like 20 people, which is a lot of people after you've been rehearsing by yourself. And so, I walked in and I started laughing. I'm like, I can't do this. This is insane.

Oh god, they all start panicking. Um, now I I think we talked about this before, but forgive my old man brain. I've forgotten. Do you have some sort of a net, some sort of a fail safe? Like if I go up, so you somebody just off stage?

Yeah. Well, for previews, uh, which are two weeks, there'll be somebody in the front row on on book and then

front row. That's that that you can't look to the audience for the line. No, but you can just say line or whatever.

Really? And the person in the front row, like there's going to be a person in the front row with a with a with a script in their hands.

This is correct. Yeah. When you say person, you mean Scotty, obviously. Yeah. Isn't that going to be distracting for the people around this person that this person snap in script pages?

What are you going to do? I tell you what you're going to do. You put somebody off [ __ ] off stage for the show for the show. That's

Don't tell them how to do it. Selling tickets for the preview. That's correct. That's correct. Well, they because they get to see they get to see how the suns should be a discount and ticket them because Sean is

What are you What are you advocacy group? What are you What are you doing? By the way, Sean, quick question. First of all, Sean, obviously Jason and I are thrilled to have you on the show. Do you

do you are you Shnie? Is such a big fan of both you. We don't usually have theater. You're so good. Do you have any stories that you'd like to Shnie? Do you um is Scotty off book? Seriously. SC mean because from running lines with me? I mean a tiny not really. I mean a tiny bit. Who?

Scotty, come into frame. Scotty, are you off? Wait, he's way down there. Scotty, you off book a little bit? You know that you love that one line I say.

You know that one line. The one you always say. You nailed it. What is it? Um, shut up, Scotty. Just shut up.

Hey, Scotty, what's the first line of the play? I don't know. Oh, that's your man. Front row.

What if the lights come up? I'm like blind. Did you Did you get a deal on him? Let me tell you. I told you that thing when I auditioned for David Chase for the Sopranos and I had one line one line and I got to Silver Cup and and Georgian Watkins the casting director I go and she goes you just I know you're going to meet him but he wants everybody to say one line. I was like one line how am I going to you know the bunch of actors out there for this is like 2001 or two. Anyway I go out there I get I go into the room with David Chase walking in there and I've got this piece of paper with the one line and she goes you ready to start? I go, "Yeah." And he's just watching us going to me deliver it to her. And I look at her and I just go, "Line

I burst out laughing and I got the job." That's not a comedy. But he was I think he was so he was like, "This [ __ ] Sopranos."

Sopranos. Yeah. You were on the Sopranos. Yeah, I know. That's what a lot of people say.

Wait, come on. Can you believe I still have not watched that show? I have either.

It's real good. It's real good. It's gonna be a hit, I hear. All right, come on. Here we go.

Let's go to your guest. I mean, what's our guest? I mean, she's probably left or asleep by now. Here we come. Wait a second. Let me pull up the notes.

Here we go. Here we go, guys. Yes. Today, Mhm. we have an actor that I met once very briefly and was as knocked out by her charm and warmth as you would think that you would be. She's one of our biggest stars, an incredibly successful producer. She kills it in both comedy and drama, big films and small. She has box office success as well as critical praise. Her nominations are numerous, including two for an Academy Award. She knows how to hold her breath for five minutes.

She's a trained pickpocket and will she plays ice hockey competitively. She's at the top of the mountain, folks, but has cleared an hour for a good old smartless chat and giggle. And I couldn't be more grateful to her. Go gang. Please welcome Miss Margot Robbie.

Bang. Hi. Hey, Margo. Hi, Margo. What's going on, Margo? She's a big Rangers fan.

I am. I've been sitting here giggling listening to you guys shoot the [ __ ] That was really fun. We try to keep it. That was my favorite part. Yeah. I love the ranges. I love the range.

Have you guys seen each other out there at the garden? No. No. I've seen I've seen you there. I you know I'm yeah I'm incognito but uh I

short for incognito. I didn't have the time. I have to say before we keep talking about hockey which I hope we do

will I have to say I [ __ ] loved is this thing on and I you are so good in it and I swear to God as soon as I finished literally as soon as I finished watching it I the first thing I said I was like give the man an Oscar like you were so unreal in it. I love

it. Oh that's very kind of you. Thank you so much. No, let's have your review on his on this look. This new look. Are you in love with it as I am?

Honestly, quite the reveal when I ripped off the piece of paper from the screen just as well. Have you been on holiday?

It's a new bronzer. It's a Right. Jason's new line. He does a lot of men's skin care.

This one is water resistant. It's good for all climates. Won't weak on you. Won't run.

He does. This one is called Early June. So, it's not too heavy. It just looks like the summer summer summer started.

It's working for you. Uh Margo, so nice to meet you. I mean, this is so cool. How

exciting. And I had no idea about the hockey thing. You play hockey. You still play hockey.

You know what? I I I don't I haven't for a couple of years, but I uh loved the Mighty Ducks when I was a kid, the movie, and I desperately wanted to play ice hockey, but I I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia, and there was no ice. And so, there was no way to play ice hockey. So, I ended up playing field hockey all through school. And um when when I got to America,

the first thing I did, I was like, I'm going to play ice hockey. I'm here. I've made it in America. I can finally live out this dream. And so I joined an ice hockey team

and I hadn't really ever ice skated. Margot, the as a Canadian, the nation of Canada is behind you. You are all of a sudden you've you've reached elite status in Canada.

It was so fun. I love Now, was this before or after the uh the skating training for Ita?

Well before. It would have been very helpful if this came after that, but no, it was well before. So I I hadn't really skated before. I had like here and there like you know I don't know just a few times maybe in my life but not really and I kind of I think I just thought I'll just run and it and there's so much padding that honestly it was it was fine but I played in a co-ed team and um

Jesus there was only one other girl on the team but you know when you're in all your gear you can't really tell

that you're a girl you know like I just looked like a very small guy I had a problem with that one Saturday night go ahead

hey I want to hear more about that. Um, yeah. So, I just looked like a small dude on the team, so I I'd get picked on. They would check me so hard. But yeah,

that's that's pretty ballsy. And then I take off the helmet at the end of the game. They'd be like, "Oh, [ __ ] Sorry. I didn't know you were a girl."

But you never you never got any you didn't get any you didn't tune anybody up. You didn't you didn't get any any fights?

Any fights? No. Throw the gloves. No, I was I was I was way smaller than everyone.

Wow. That's all right. So, you're out there in Australia and you are um you're enjoying Was it

done tiny bit of research. Was it was it the infatuation with Harry Potter that got you really excited about movies and and and and and acting and stuff like that that that that's what started the Where did where did the where did it all start out there? Cuz mom or mom nor dad was a part of that?

No. No one's no one's in the biz in my family. I had never met anyone who had even so much as walked on a film set.

Yeah. You were on a farm, right? Until I was I I was I spent a lot of time on a farm, but I myself was not on a farm. I was on property, but a lot. Um but uh no, I don't know. I was just always obsessed with movies. I I would just uh watch them again and again. Like we had a, you know, like most kids from the '90s, like we had a collection of

videos and I'd just watch them to death and then I'd recreate them and like I was just

Harry Potter was a big a big I was obsessed with the books. Um, so no, that really didn't bleed into my like movie obsession. I was just obsessed with movies and watching them and uh yeah, my mom just used to watch me like I' I'd regurgitate like in like she'd be there making dinner in the kitchen and I'd just be reenacting something. She kept being like, "How do how are you how are you remembering all this? Where is this coming from?"

Is there one that you would do over and over again? Is there one that you would

Is there a particular actor or actress that you were like, "Oh god, Goldie Horn." I was

I loved everything she did. And then there was like The Fifth Element was like my favorite film when I was a kid. And so I try and recreate all those like action sequences and I was Yes. I was a bit of a drama.

How funny was Chris Tucker in that? Yeah. Yeah. So good. What um then what what so then so you go down to Melbourne, you get um a couple of jobs there such that you feel like well maybe this can arm me with the kind of uh experience and position in the community somewhat that I can go to America and and try to parlay that into something bigger better.

Totally. Yeah. I mean I was on Yes. So I was on the Gold Coast and which ironically now a lot of movies are shooting on the Gold Coast but growing up that was it felt very far away. So if you really wanted to do anything um you know the biggest shows are all in Sydney and Melbourne. I ended up eventually finding my way into an audition for like practically a student film and ended up doing that and through that you know how things are like you do one unpaid thing it leads to another unpaid thing leads to another thing and then eventually someone pays you to do it. Um, so I

And you're about 16, 17, 18. 16. Yeah. So I was in my final year of high school and then I ended up getting a guest role on a TV show that shot in Melbourne. So that kind of took me to The Big Smoke. And then once I was in Melbourne that I was I could quickly parlay like one guest role into another guest role on a TV show with the same casting director. And then while I was in Melbourne, I auditioned for Neighbors, which is a big soap.

Oh, yeah. The biggest. Oh, you've heard of it? Of course. Yeah. Yeah. I'm up on all things Australia. Sure. Except for I will say I'm ignorant enough that I didn't realize that Gold Coast was the name of the actual city. I thought it was just kind of an area, but it's the actual

I know. It's kind of confusing. And you also say you say the Gold Coast, not like in I don't you don't live in Mel. You live in Melbourne. You live in Sydney, but you live on the Gold Coast, even though that's the name of the city.

Oh, wow. Wow. It's confusing. And that's up north uh north uh northeast like Brisbane.

Yeah, exactly. an hour drive from Brisbane, an hour drive from Byron. And where where are you today? Are where are we finding you today?

I'm in LA. Uh we're doing the we're we're about to start the junket for Weathering Heights, which is

Oh, I can't wait for that. Well, we're going to get to that. So good, guys. So excited.

I can't wait. I'm words I never thought I'd say. No, I know. We'll hold you to that.

I mean, I'm excited. But um All right. So, but what what's going on with school at this moment? So, you're you're in your last year of high school. Are you thinking about college? Are you thinking about another career that might be more predictable, something uh that you can count on more?

I didn't really Yeah, I didn't really know what I was going to cuz I I it still hadn't occurred to me that I could do acting as a job even though I had started doing these like small unpaid things on the Gold Coast. So, about halfway through high school, I started, you know, I did my first like, you know, the thing that I described as like a student film. It's like a independent film that never got distribution. So, I don't really know what to call it other than a tiny micro budget film. Um, and so I did two of those. I did I I would do commercials for free and you know, whatever. And then, uh, the job in Melbourne kind of timed out at the end of high school. So, it turned out pretty great that I got to finish my childhood really.

Um, and then and then, you know, 2 months later, I got the job on on Neighbors and then I've been working professionally ever since. So,

so you thought, "No, don't I don't have time for college. Don't have time to get a backup."

Well, I actually, to be honest, I didn't have the money to go to uni anyway. And I I kind of thought, "This is crazy. Am I really going to go to You know, the thing is like you finish school, you go to university." And I know it's like that in America, too, like go off to college. But I was like, but there's I don't know that there's something I want to study specifically. Am I going to put myself in crazy debt for for like for what? I was like, that's insane. So, I couldn't get my head around that. Yeah, cuz you were lucky enough to know at a young age exactly what you wanted to do.

But don't but don't most but most kids I mean I'm talking to my daughters about this now. It's like you don't you don't there's no pressure to like know what your career is going to be at least in your first two years. Isn't it like the third and fourth year where you have to declare your major.

I think it's a bit different in America. I feel like in America Oh, by the way, all I wanted to do was go to college in America just because watching movies that look like the funnest thing in the whole world and everyone be like, "Why? What do you want to study?" I'm like, "Oh, I don't care about what I would want. I just want to go to college in America. I don't want to go to a frat fraternity party and drink out in that right now.

And so I think I think I get the impression that for you guys in America, it's like you go to college to have a college experience and at some point during that experience, you realize, oh, I really like this class I'm taking and now I'm going to shift in that direction. It's not really so much like that in Australia. You you you kind of have to decide in high school what it is that you like. So you're like, "Oh, I want to be a lawyer or I want to do business or something." And then you pick your degree and then you do that degree and it's a little it's a little shorter as well. You can even do your full degree in like 2 and a half years in in Australia. You kind of back it back it up like that.

I just I my experience was I was like I don't want I I feel like I'm just going to go and waste my time doing this when I know that that's not where I just want to go and start life now.

And do were you doing what your parents wanted you to do too? Was that part of it?

Who me? Yeah, you. Yeah, a little bit. Your name one more time, fell. You're handsome. Look how handsome this guy is. What is this handsome guy on Margo? I remember um in college we used to have u parties and we'd, you know, lug the keg up the stair. Yeah, totally. In this apartment. Totally. And we'd charge $3 a cup to when you come in. We'd buy the kegs. We'd make all this money and at the end of the night, the floor would just be trashed with beer everywhere in our apartment. And at that age, you just kind of don't care. You don't care.

That's that's the dream. That's that's all I wanted. Do you know what I part of me was, you know, part of me was like, "Oh, no. I'm, you know, I started acting, like I said, on neighbors, whatever." And I was like, "Oh, I I haven't gone to university and I guess I'm never going to at this point. Does that mean I'm am I dumb?" And I I remember I remember asking myself

I look in the mirror and say that to myself every day. Mhm. I like almost wanted to check that I this didn't mean I wasn't in, you know, didn't mean I wasn't smart. I my sister was, you know, we're very very very different people. And um so she was studying to be an accountant in university, something I never would have done. Um but I remember saying I was like, "Hey, can I do one of your assignments, one of your uni assignments, cuz I just need to check that I

that acting is not making me dumb." And uh and I did it. And and by the way, like numbers and accounting is not my forte at all. Um and I got like an A minus and I I was like,

"Okay, cool." And then I felt good after that. I was like, "I'm good. I can do I know I can do it if I need

because of life experience." It was well I mean I studied it was all about, you know, cognitive dissonance and some boring show. Yeah. But yeah.

Mhm. We'll be right back. And now back to the show. All right. So, you get to Hollywood. You got Oh, well, you're It's not Hollywood first, right? Um,

no. So, I was on Neighbors for three years, which is a pretty intense and very, very fun and amazing training sort of thing as a young actor. Um, yeah. And so, I did that for 3 years. And then when my contract finished, I started about 6 months into that job on Neighbors. I'm looking around, you've got a cast of say 30 people from aging from 8 years old to 80 years old. Um, and it's uh, you know, I looked around and I was like, "Okay, so some people are lifers here. Some people have, you know, just made a a life just from acting." Like, and I'd asked the cast members, I was like, "So, you you don't have any side jobs? You don't have a second job that you go do?" And they're like, "No, just this." And I was like, "Wow, okay. So, you can make enough money doing this that you can like pay for a house and put your kids through school." And they're like, "Yeah." And I was like, "Oh, excellent. Great. I'm

going to do this then." So, I'm going to be an actor then. Great. Um, and then I was looking at some of the younger cast members who would So, there was kind of three choices on neighbors. Either one, you you can't keep up, you get fired, and it's like a revolving door. So, like you need to be able to keep up. Number two, you are great and you stay and you you can be on there for like 20 30 years, you know, it's a long running. So,

or option three, you do it for a little bit and then you make the jump to America and you try your luck in America. So, I I I knew that I wanted to be in Hollywood and do like American films and And Margot, just just to be clear, there have been a lot of members, cast members over the years from Neighbors who have who have done that and made and gone to America and done great things, right?

Yeah. And Home and Away. So like the two main soaps, Neighbors and Home and Away. So it's like Kylie Manog was on Neighbors and Chris Hemsworth was on Home and Away.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. A long lineage. All right. So when you then when you get to Hollywood, is there is there a safety net? Do you come with a bag of money? Do you have an agent ready? There's an Aussie mafia ready made for you. It uh Yeah, it's No, like truly it's like being on Ramsay Street, which is like a street in the show. It was like just being in Rams on Ramsay Street again but in America.

So, who's taking care of you? You Well, your your fellow Aussies that have been on soaps as well and you sleep on their couches and everyone like shares info of like, okay, cuz by the way, when I moved here,

it was 16 years ago, so I was 20. I moved five days after I finished on Neighbors. I was quite keen to get here. And uh yeah, there was no Uber. There was no like it was a different time. There was pilot season.

You had to learn how to drive on the other side of the road. Well, not just it that that wouldn't have been a problem. It was getting a car. You can't actually rent a car till you're 21 and I was still 20. And so I asked the Aussie, you know, like our Aussie mafia. I was like, you know, what do I do if I need to get a car to get around to these auditions? And they're like, okay, I know a guy. And so you'd go to this the guy and um he would rent you a car kind of off the books or whatever and then you'd drive around to your auditions and all that.

Russell Crow's got a little side gig out in Seami Valley. Well, he I ended up crashing that car on the way and this was not a guy that you you know I didn't get the impression this is a guy that you messed with, but I crashed his car and I was really scared to tell him. Anyways, uh he took the car off me obviously and then I still needed a car to get around to auditions and I went back to the Aussies and I was like, "What do you do when you piss off that guy? Like, is there another guy that you can rent a car from?" And they're like, "Yes, he's called the dodgy Romanian." And I was like, "Come on, okay." And I rented a car from the dodgy Romanian, as he was called. And uh uh it was like this gold colored God, I haven't thought about this in years. It was like this gold color, not a Lincoln, but like it looked like it was like a boxy car like from the '8s and this this guy was like very few

words, very, you know, like here's the keys, give me the cash, we're not going to chitchat, just one thing.

We don't have an offensive Romanian accent out of you. No, thank God. It was like don't open the trunk ever.

No, come on. I'm not joking. I am not joking. He said, "Just don't open the trunk." And I was petrified and I no I desperately wanted to make it in Hollywood. I'm like I'm not going on little side quest here to open this trunk and get caught up in whatever is happening here. I am never going to open this trunk. And uh anyways, I ended up again crashing in this car. I was

What's the matter with you? I I you know what I was always like doing my makeup and changing on the way to auditions and stuff and not paying. It was Yeah, it was a bit of a chaotic time.

Anyways, I crashed in this car and I was panicking. I was like, "Holy [ __ ] what do I do? There's no You don't even call insurance. You got to call the dodgy Romanian and tell him that I've just crashed his car and he kill me, I suppose." And so I called him and he's like, "Where are you?"

And I was like, I gave him the address. I was somewhere in Venice, I think, and it was like night time. And he was like, "I'm coming to you." And I was like, "Oh god, no." God.

And he he he rocked up with an associate and they got out of the car and they go to the trunk.

He looked at he looked at the damage and he was like, "Okay." And I was like waiting to I don't know be executed. And he was like, "Um, did you open the trunk?" And I was like, "No, never." Like I literally never.

How dare you? And he goes, "Okay." And he just took the keys and he drove away.

No way. And I never saw him again. I never got a bill for the damage to the car. Nothing.

Truly. Oh my god. Just wanted and and did you And I still to this day I don't know what was in the trunk.

Wow. What was in there? What was in there? Just some cash. Just loose cash. That'd be nice. You can't deposit.

Just junk. It might have just been junk in the trunk. Oh god. Did you junk in the trunk? Um, did you get to use the car enough to go to plenty of audition? Like did you get use out of the car before you crashed or got in the accident?

Yeah, I did. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So, what was So, so you come to America. Let's Let's Margo, what was the thing? What was the first American Panam gig?

Was it Panam? Yeah. Panam was it? Yeah. Remember that series? And that at the time that was like it was a TV show about the panic in the big it was big deal at the time.

Yeah, it was it I think at the time it was the most someone had spent on a pilot before. They spent like $10 million on the pilot or something like that.

Doesn't seem like it's that long ago. I know. And and that also now seems like a small budget for like a pilot, but uh yeah, it was a big deal and I I I had a role in that. So that was my first job. So I was I then moved to New York cuz we shot that um in at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. So then I was living in New York for a year

and my roommate was Christina Richie and No Way also on the show. Yeah. So I've gone from being in Australia like never having, you know, met a single famous person or seen a movie set or whatever to Yeah. living in the big

And then was this your first time in New York? Yes. Oh my god. What did you think of that? I suddenly I I couldn't comprehend how much of a city it was. The thing is where I grew up on the Gold Coast like I mentioned, but my family's all from like inland Queensland like the farms, right? And so I had grown up thinking I was a city kid and I thought the Gold Coast was like the big smoke and they'd always call me a city kid because, you know, I was on the Gold Coast. Then I moved to Melbourne for neighbors and I was like, "Wo, okay, this is a city." I was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe I thought I was a city kid. I've never been to a city.

Melbourne is a city. This is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Mhm. And then I got to New York and I was like, "Okay, I don't even know anymore. This is this is like this is a different level. This is a city." Yeah. I loved it. I had the best so exciting though.

Best best time. Oh my god. So So you do So you do Panama and then that that sort of runs its course and then what you're sort of left wondering what's going to happen now or was it just offers flooding in?

No, it they didn't pick up the back nine. Uh, so we kind of had an inkling that we weren't going to go to a season 2 and uh and then I started auditioning at that point. I auditioned for Richard Curtis's film About Time,

which I ended up getting a small role in. And uh and then I also like everyone else uh I auditioned for The Wolf of Wall Street. So I sent in a self tape for that and um I ended up getting that and uh that was my first American

No, wait. So you sent in a self tape for Wolf Wall Street. So then how long was that process? Was that maybe two two or three uh auditions before you got to Scorsesei and Leo?

No. No. I went from the tape to being in the room with Marty and Leo. Christ. Wow.

It was it was there was no in between. I I don't know how it happened like that because everyone I knew was sending in a tape. Like everyone. So I never I never thought Martin Scorsesei was going to see the tape. I just was hoping that Ellen Lewis, the casting director, was going to see the tape and and you know, I sent it in. I didn't hear back anything until I got the call saying, "You're going to read in the room with Marty."

How long was that? How long was that gap from the time? It was quite a while. Like it was like I can't remember.

Forgotten about it almost. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you know, like I don't know, maybe five weeks or something. I don't know. I I get the feeling that maybe I was a bit of a wild card option cuz they I think they had a couple of actresses read in the room with Marty and Leo to do a chemistry read sort of situation. I don't know. Maybe I was like the wild card where they're like, I don't know, throw her in. I I have no idea.

You get a call from your agent. You're like, guess what? That tape you sent in, you you're going to go meet Martin Scorsesei.

Well, no. They they said you're going to go meet with Marty. And I didn't know who Marty was. I was like, Marty. And they're like, "Marty is what people call

dodgy romance." Wow. So, you're going to go meet with Marty and Leo, and you're going to read with Leo for Marty. I mean, did they make you feel comfortable or were you nervous or

They did. They did. And they gave me the role in the room as well. So, we That's great. So, the whole thing was crazy.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Walk us through that. Is it true that you Is it true that you improvise a slap on on Leo?

Yes, it is true. It is true. And thank Christ that worked out. Um cuz that could have gone a different way.

Okay, walk us through that. Uh okay, so the way that day went, I walk I walk in

I walk in first I go to Ellen Lewis's office to like have a quick pre-hat with her.

She takes one look at what I'm wearing and she was like no no no no. Like she was like you're going to go back downstairs. I think I was wearing like

you know my like boots and like jeans and like a I don't know long sleeve shirt or something and she was like absolutely not. You're going to go downstairs. you're going to walk that way and you're going to walk into a place called Soho. There's lots of shops and you're going to find a tight dress and the highest heels you can find and then you're going to come back. And I was like, "Okay." And so I went and did that and I came back in a new outfit

and uh and then I you know went to the to the you know the audition room thing. Uh, and Marty and Leah were in there and it was quite surreal and we started doing the first scene and I had just, you know, I'd been on a soap where you have to, you do like 60 pages a day and you have to be word perfect cuz it's multicams. They're switching, you know, they're essentially editing as you do the scene, you know, like

you are word perfect. So, I start doing this scene and it was all right and whatever, but Leo was like throwing in ad libs and and improvising and I'd never ever improvised before. I'd never seen another actor improvise before. So, I was a bit bit thrown. I was like, "Oh, that's not in the script. Wait, what's he doing?" Okay. And I was like, "Oh my gosh." Okay, this is he's like Leo doesn't want to fly. I was like, "Wow, he's improving. Okay, shit." Um, and and so I thought, okay, I didn't do very good in that scene, I think, cuz I was, you know, playing catchup a little bit and I thought, "Oh god, I'm getting thrown out of this room in like 30 seconds." Like, I've got 30 seconds to make an impression cuz we are like, "This is not impressive so far." And so I was like, "Okay, forget the lines.

Just go off script and just I just thought I'm just going to use like every swear word I know." And so they were like, "Action." And then I just like started scream cuz also Leo can go, you know, like if you don't get in there, he'll just keep going and like he can do the scene without you sort of thing. So it's either like get yourself in there or you'll like, you know, he can do

and you're in a Brooklyn. Yeah, Brooklyn accent, which is actually easier for an Aussie because we don't do, you know, we don't hit our Rs like that. Um, so yeah. And then so I just started like I jumped in quick. I was like and started screaming or whatever. And so I was like, "Okay, great." So we're doing this scene and now there's a bit of energy in the room and it's feeling good and I was like okay great you know and then there was the last scene third scene to do which ends in a line of now get over here and kiss me and then it's the end of the scene and so we end up you know I was I think feeling a little buzzed that I did well in the second scene so by I was you know a little more bullshy in this third scene and we get to the end and it's like okay now get over here and kiss me and I thought to myself wow I could I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now like that would be so Cool. I could tell

all my girlfriends back home that that happened. That would be like a life experience.

And I was like walking towards him slowly having this thought of like maybe I'll just do it. Like [ __ ] it. And then I got close and I was like nah, this character wouldn't do that. And I just went whack and slapped him instead. And every

dead silent like you could hear a pin drop and I was like, "Oh my god, what have I just done? I'm going to get arrested. I like that's I think that's you know battery or like assault of some kind. Like can I be sued? Do I go to jail for this? And then he and Marty just burst out laughing and they're like that's great.

That was amazing. And then they said you've got the job right there. And they said, "Do that again. Let's do the scene again. Do more improv. Do that again." And and anyway, so we workshopped the scenes for a little bit and then I, you know, said, "Thank you. And I walked out of the room and I got in the elevator and I like took my heels off

and I like did that like like little silent jig dance to yourself like oh my gosh that was so fun. I can't believe that just happened. And just as the elevator doors were about to close Ellen Lewis was like wait come back into the room for one second. I was like oh okay. And I walked back in my heels still in my hands and um and they were standing there like just smiling and I was like what's up and they were like and Marty just oh he Marty just held out his hands like this and goes would like to offer you the role. and then gave me the biggest hug and it was a dream.

So incredible. And yeah, that's amazing. Did they ever make the movie? Yeah. Did they end up making Did they end up making the movie? Sean wants to know.

Um yeah, they got that one off the ground. Well, now Okay, so that was that amazing story. Thank you for sharing that. And obviously the film is stunning. Your work in it is stunning. Um it it was so wellreceived. Did did things I mean a a massive change for you in your life um once that comes out? Um was that was that a a comfortable thing? I mean something you've been working for for a long time. This was a bigger step than you probably imagined happening. Were you able to kind of like step up to it and and and and hit it in stride or or was it a bit of an adjustment?

Well, you know how it goes. It's like you make a movie and then it doesn't come out for a year. So, your life kind of goes on for a year and I I didn't it didn't occur to me that I was Do you know what I just didn't know I was going to be in the movie as much as I ended up being in it. I thought cuz the set was so crazy and so much improvisation and so much like every day it was like we were like writing scenes the night before. Like my whole end sequence in that movie we wrote like the night before in a room at like 3:00 a.m. We were like it was meant to be just a scene where my character comes in and says, "I want a divorce." and she put some papers down. That's kind of it. And then we ended up kind of being like, "Ah, we need something more." And we workshopped this whole thing, that whole sequence. So,

by the nature of the filming process, I thought, you know, there's a lot of experimenting going on, a lot of improv going on. Like, I'm sure most of this isn't going to make the cut. So, I thought, I wonder how much I'll be in this movie. I And I didn't see it till the night before the premiere, so I had no idea. Oh, no.

Yeah. And then, uh, so I didn't really prepare for it. And I thought, oh, I'll I'll be like a, you know, blink and you'll miss me sort of thing. like I'll be in and out. Like I I just didn't think anyone was going to pay attention to me in that movie at all. So I wasn't I wasn't really I wasn't Yeah. I mean you got Jonah Hill doing like the most incredible stuff. Everyone like the cameos are endless. Like every day you'd come into work and people would be like Matthew MCA is here today or like you know whatever. So So yeah, it just felt like I was one one blip amongst a big canvas of of you know chaos. And so I I yeah I didn't really brace myself for how how things would change after that.

And I'd already done a bunch of jobs in between. Sure. you know, cuz I had a year. So, so yeah, I don't know. Life Yeah, life got weird pretty quickly.

Yeah, but then you go and you see it and you're like, "Wow, this is I mean Yeah. Well, no, really. I was thinking I was like, oh [ __ ] my family is about to see this.

Oh no. I organized a friends and family screening and I like sat sat down and the credit started and I suddenly was like, oh my god, I'm like naked and I'm fully naked and they're all about to see it. And I mean there's scenes where we're like having sex on a bed of cash. Like my brother is right next to me like oh no.

I was like this is going to be the most uncomfortable thing ever. I never forget at the end of that screening I think my family were all a little bit stunned and like didn't know what to say but felt like they

felt like they should say congrats or something. They were like and and my older brother who's like quite a bloy you know quite a nosy bloke. He was just like uh uh like couldn't find the words and I was like you know what uh we don't have to talk for a while and he goes great and just like kind of gave me a hit on the back and then walked out and we didn't talk for months after that

and then when we did we never mentioned it again. We're like let's never talk about that.

Oh my god. All right. How soon after that did you get pulled into the DC universe with Harley Quinn?

Gosh, that must have been Gosh, that's right. Harley Quinn. Okay. So, Wolf of Wall Street, 2012.

Okay. You did the movie before that. You did the movie with what's that great one you did with Will Smith?

Focus. Oh, I love that movie. Yeah. It's so fun, isn't it? It's a great movie. You're so good in that movie.

Oh, thank you. That was that was so fun. Yeah. It must have been right after it must have been after Focus cuz Will and I had already done that movie and then we worked together again in in the first Suicide Squad.

And then where was Ita in all? It was after that. off after 2017 is when it either we filmed it or it came out in 2017. I think it came out 2017 and we

Yeah, that movie is so great. Your performance is I mean everybody talk you're probably so sick of talking about the one scene where they just hold on you in the mirror.

No, I I loved I cuz that again that was like an in the- moment thing where I don't know we'll set up and

Craig Gillespie, right? Yeah, Craig also an Aussie. But yeah, I was kind of like I was like, "Let me try something for a second. It might be lame, but let me

Oh my god, it was so powerful." That was And then and then afterwards he and I was like, "Was that too weird?" And he was like kind of like really still. And he's never still he's like he is fast. Like you think I thought shooting neighbors he is fast. Anyways, and he was like very still and he was like that was something. And I was like okay cool. Do you want me to do and he's like don't do anything else. Let's move on.

And I was like what a great feeling. That's the best. This is the best. This is the best. You know that feeling where you're like, "Ooh, something electric just happened. Something I don't know. Maybe it's nothing, but maybe it's maybe it ends up being a thing that

cool guys bring up on a podcast years from now." So, yeah. Still waiting for those cool guys, I guess.

Yeah. Where are they? When do they join? Yeah. And we will be right back. And back to the show. At what point did um at what point did you start thinking, God, I would love to parlay some of this, you know, great access and and and position in the in the community into into producing as well because you're such an accomplished producer. Your your company Lucky Chara was the first thing that we produced that came well was actually the second movie we produced, but the first one that came out. So, it was kind of kicked things off really nicely. I start we started talking about the production company in 2013. So the year after Wolf Ball Street.

Okay. So after Wolf Wall Street before it had come out I went off to Belgium to shoot this movie called Sweet Frances. Uh which I've actually never seen. And I met my two producing partners one of whom I'm now married to. Um so Josie and Tom was second and third AD on that job and we all became friends on that job. Yeah. Wolf Wall Street wasn't out yet so that must have been 20 anyways whatever. um very early on and that's when we talked about starting a production company and we started the company the following year. Um and uh yeah, so it's yeah, we've had it for like 11 years now.

I love that you work with your husband. I I just think that's great. My wife and I are working together a bit now and it's just it's just so I just love it. It's

Oh, you love it. Okay. Sorry. I didn't know which way you were going to go with that. The look on your face kind of lost a little. Now, I if I can I I'd love to get my spouse to play golf, too. Uh you you're I hear I hear Tom Tom can swing a golf club.

He's tried to make me play golf so many times. No, don't bother. I'm going to play with him. He's He going to become big big golf buddies. Willie, he's uh he's he's he's coming on up.

Oh, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, good. Good on the board. Are you all golfers together? Are you all going to be golfers? Adorable.

I love it. He um Yeah. I mean, he's obsessed with golf. Like I feel like every dude I know turned 30 and suddenly overnight was obsessed with golf. Like I was like I've never heard any of you talk about golf.

Yeah. And they all seem to hate it and themselves so much but want to do it all the time. It's such a weird It seems to be a very

relationship. It is an incredibly challenging thing that is hard to um uh ignore.

It perplexes me. It really does. It really perplexes me. And I'm also like, you can love this thing without me. Like, go. This can be a thing that I don't need to play golf.

I'm going to set you up with my That is so Yeah. Yeah. Amanda needs to hear that. Let's clip that for Amanda.

Speaking of, will you clip that for Amanda? Thank you. Uh Marggo, speaking of golf, I just had lunch two weeks ago. Three weeks ago

on a golf course with Anan Christ. Oh, no way. Yeah. who is the real life CEO of Mattel

of the real life CEO of Mattel and we were talking about you and and we're talking about Barbie of course and I'm like how how did that come and he's like he he told me cuz he's he's such a great guy he's like the this is the pitch Margot Robbie Barbie that was the pitch

that got to do with golf really no cuz we were having lunch on the golf course what golf course

will which golf course was I do remember that when you called me and I was like I'm about to Do you want me to start rattling them off? I hate that I know them all, but

because that's where he wanted to have lunch. Why are you getting bogged down in the

I need to understand how does Sean Hayes end up at Hillrest? Uh oh. I got a pass.

What is pass? Why are you so Who has lunch at Hillrest? Unless you're making the time.

Are you Are you not allowed at Hillrest? No. A friend of ours uh set set us up as just to have lunch. You guys are having a good time. So, we had a good time and I talked to him and he's Look at his face. Yeah. And

Oh, yeah. People can only hear this. You can't see Jason's face right now. It is so wild. And

by the way, it's it's beautiful. It's gorgeous there. Yeah, it's hard to get out there and you just thought you just have your your sandwich out there, I guess.

Anyway, Enan spoke very highly of you. He's such a good guy. And when you told me the pitch was just you and Barbie, that that's where it started. And then and then everything else just kind of snowballed from there, which is incredible. So, we're going to fly over Quinton Tarantino and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and we're going to go right to Barbie. Talk about Barbie. I was just thought what a coincidence you're here and I had lunch with Enan and it was he made the golf. That's fair enough. That's a very good That's very We will allow

Once upon a time in Hollywood. Once upon a time in Hollywood a film. It's a great film, isn't it?

What a film. Now, is is being on a set with Quinton as exciting as it seems? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It is everything. I'm a huge Tarantino fan and it is so I've read like you know all the folklore around making a movie with Quenton like he doesn't allow phones on set and d it's all true and it's everything you'd want it to be and more. It it was just the best awesome awesome film. So love that. I still can't believe you're like remember when that f I think was it can where it first was was shown and he made some uh declaration to the press in in like a really cool way saying listen

I know some directors say you know please watch the spoilers when you write these reviews and everything but he like made this like real like but I'm serious please try not to reveal the ending to everyone blah blah blah blah blah I remember reading that and going okay this is never going to last somebody is going to spo But I remember that I made it to watching the movie, which was months later, without ever hearing what the ending was about, and was so excited by the reveal of what that ending was, and [ __ ] loved the way that thing all wraps up. Uh, I just what a film.

Isn't that amazing that no one spoiled that? It wasn't that was like a separate part of the script that only a few of us were allowed to even have. And so like the crew didn't have it like it was kept so under lock and key cuz he really wanted to preserve that. And um and it's so impactful when you get to the end of the movie and you're like, "Holy [ __ ] Sharon's alive. Wait, this means Sharon Tate lives. Like this is such a great alternate universe."

But I uh you know, knowing how secret he wanted everything to be. I I never breathed a word of how it ended. And at Ken, I brought my mom to watch the movie and uh I asked her afterwards, you know, we're all clapping and I was like, "What did you think?" And she she goes, "Honestly, I have been dreading watching this movie because I did not want to see my daughter be killed in the way in that way. Like, and I know Tarantino movies are violent and like she's like, "I know." And I didn't want to, you know, burst your bubble cuz you, you know, clearly so excited about this, but like I've been dreading it.

And she was like, "I didn't know." Anyway, so Quentyn was looking at me. He's like, he's like, "Did your mom like the movie?" And I was like, "Oh, she was upset cuz she thought she was about to see me die." And he's like, "You didn't tell your mom you don't die." And I was like, "No, you told me not to tell anyone the ending of this movie. I didn't tell anyone." He was like, "Well, at least tell your mom." And I was like, "Oh, no. I I I didn't tell my husband. I didn't tell my mom. I didn't tell anyone how this movie ended." So, yeah, we were all in on keeping it keeping it secret.

Sweet. All right. So, All right. So, Barbie, the the the behemoth of Barbie, it comes into your world um in in a in sort of a typical way, like kind of through the regular sort of channels, or is it something that that you pursue?

Not really. I mean we no we pursued it like as as the company as Lucky Chap we went after it we we knew that the uh agreement over you know it was set up already over at Sony there had been versions of it etc etc and then there Hollywood don't worry he knows the deal Amy Schumer you know blah blah blah around for a while he knows he knows the deal

bunch of money against it and then um exactly but there was there was you know like the they had to re kind of re-up the deal sort of And so we kind of like let Lucky Chap uh produce this. Let us have this. We'll set it up at Warner Brothers. So there's no Chain of Titles issue with whatever they've previously developed as

before Greta and and Noah. Yeah. Before Greta and Noah. So it was just just us. So then your take then was sorry don't interrupt but your take because the the reason it's sort of it is relevant and interesting that it had this life beforehand was that obviously the version at Sony with Amy would be wildly different than than what you guys were doing because think about it like that's what the Mattel you know they've got all this great you know IP and they're just like games or or in this you action figure

and it's like how do you come up with a movie about that? you have to have a take like what's the angle going to be? What's it going to be about? And with Barbie there's it's so loaded to like you can have a a cultural reference to it, some sort of societal comment, all this stuff. So what was your take be? So this is before you had the writer and the director. Did you have a clear idea about what you wanted to say with this and then that informed where you looked for a writer and a director?

To be honest, the first hurdle was getting them to let us have it, right? And so really those first conversations were about making sure Enon and Mattel knew that we would protect the brand and take care of it but also do something meaningful with it. And we did we were quite honest in that first meeting of like

if we're doing a Barbie movie, we're going to be saying something and it has to be culturally relevant and this has to be elevated and cinematic and all the things like it's but but do understand like we we're going to be making comments with the movie sort of thing. So you obviously we'll do that with someone who's very smart like I I I did pitch Greta in the meeting. I was like you know like a Greta Gerwig

um who I had spoken to previously about other films and stuff and she I think at the time was filming Little Women but she had done Ladybird. Anyways, um and and so yeah, so first step one really was just like letting them know that we would we understood how important this property is to them, that we would, you know, be good partners to them and and um and then and then also like yeah, then it was setting up the studio and then it was going after Greer and being like can do you want to do a Barbie movie and

and uh then it was about what her take was really. It was it was never me being like I have a take do you want to do this? I bet you have something fascinating, but you don't really like plot out. They don't outline a whole thing and then send in an outline, you know what you're going to get. They they they don't really know how it's going to end. They write as they go. They write themselves corners. They write themselves out of corners. So getting the studio and Mattel to sign off on the movie and get them paid to commence because then it was co too and I was like they need to be writing right now but and they were like well beginning middle and end and everyone's feeling very protective over this thing and want to know what it is and what they're paying for and all that kind of stuff and it was yeah it was kind of yeah I think it was probably the best bit of producing we ever did was getting

getting that whole all those deals treatment deals but you know no approval over the script and approval over the treatment like all this kind of stuff. So that they

you you got to do it. You got to convince a lot of people that sort of like just trust us. Just trust us.

It was completely just trust us and and also leave them alone. Like you cannot they're not going to get on the phone with you and tell they're not going to pitch you. Like you we have to leave them alone. That's

this says a lot about Mattel and Warner Brothers for for taking that that risk and like that's a lot of courage. It's so great that it worked out so well for them.

Yeah. I mean huge. I mean the the I I asked the dumb questions if you haven't picked up on that yet. So, will there be a sequel?

Well, there could be. I mean, why wouldn't there be? But Gret's been I mean, I'm I'm open There's no plans at the moment, but I'm open to it. I'm open to anything with Greta, to be honest, but she's been doing Nania um for ages. So, she's

I can't wait for that. Cool. Yeah, I think she's she's been like really intensely into Do you I love them, too. Have you

Have you ever read a book series called The Magicians? It's like this like grownup dark Nani version of Nani.

No, but I will. So good. Anyway. Yeah. No, tell tell Sean what channel it's on and he'll watch it for

books. They're books. The Magicians. Oh, wow. Is it Is it Is it the same tone as the Narnia books?

It's Well, it just it's like I love fantasy books. I read a lot of fantasy and it's a really good Oh, good. Well, then check them out. I mean, it's just But it's got it's very much seeped in like Narnia law, which I which I love. Why don't you why don't your production company option those books?

Well, actually, if I'm going to option anything, I I read a lot of, like I said, a lot of fantasy, but I I read a lot of romanty books as well. Um, so since our our brand is very like female focused, there's some other romanty books that I'd rather go after.

Well, that's getting us right to Weathering Heights with the divine Jacobi. What a nice guy. Just met him the other day. What a really really nice.

And by the way, sidebar, we just had Charlie XCX on and she did she did the music for it. She did some of the music.

She did an entire album. Yeah. Her whole album is called Weathering Heights. And another collaboration with you and Emerald Finel. Yes.

Third film together. So we produced Promising Young Woman, then Salt Burn, and now this is her third film and our third.

You guys, she's only been in the States for 16 years. Look at all of this. Hey, that's amazing. Unbel It's so great. It is great. So, Weathering Heights, you're a you're you're a big softy with the romance stuff. Was this Did this Did this come

It's the ultimate romance. It's the ultimate Yeah. It's much like your relationship with golf. It's it's like you like you just can't you can't help it even though it's destroying you on top.

Thank you for putting it in a context that we can understand. Thank you. I'm currently in a divorce with with golf right now. I'm I'm working on my life right now. Um but um but okay so did now now uh you've you've you've seen the film um

many times. Yes. Um do you cry every time? Every time. I have never watched it and not cry. And I and like it's it's Yeah. It's so good.

It's like I mean it's just I'm so excited that everyone's about to see it cuz it's incredible.

It's coming out on uh Valentine's Day, right? Uh perfect. Valentine's plan. Yeah. If you don't have plans,

Friday, February 13th. It did come out 3 days ago cuz it's February 16th today.

It's out now. It's out. It's February 16th today. Okay, guys. If you haven't seen it yet, I apologize. Okay, so does that mean is it the Monday? Is it the public holiday today? Okay, you've got time. Go to the movies right now.

As soon as I slap this laptop down, I'm going. I'm going to bring It's President's Day weekend. It's President's Day. It's It's Valentine's. It's a big weekend. Go out and see it today.

Today. Go see it. It's It's just an incredible film. Like, it really really is. And it's so moving and evocative and provocative at times, but it's I don't know. I I really think it's going to make people feel.

And then and what about what did you because it's chemistry with an with an actor is is is so vital especially I would imagine if you're doing some sort of a romantic uh film with someone. Did you did you do some research about like did you call around with people that or you did you know Jacob from Saltburn? All right. So yeah, I knew him in a kind of like a producer actor dynamic

from Saltburn and always thought he was so lovely and so talented. I mean, I was the very when I read Saltburn, it's the first thing I said. I was like, Jacob Alli

should play Felix. I I was such a fan of his work from Euphoria back then. So then you knew you two would would get along and and

Well, we're also from uh he's from Brisbane and I'm from the Gold Coast, so we're from like an hour away from each other. We're both Queenslanders. Um so I I don't know. I had a feeling I was like, we're both Queenslanders. we're we'll be best mates. It'll be great.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's also he's just so good. And and I think what really helps is we approach our work in this in a very similar way. Um and I think that really helped. And I think when it comes to chemistry

and how is that? Well, we're both we're both very very like we take it very seriously. We do a lot of prep. We do a lot of work, you know, like we're both on set with like notebooks and writing and notes and, you know, like, you know,

Yeah. So, I don't know. And we were kind of, to be honest, I think we were kind of set up for success because the script was so good. I mean, Emerald's an Oscar winning screenplay writer. The script was unbelievable. We had, you know, then the source material has been,

you know, adored for almost 200 years. Then you've got Emerald's take of it and her writing is incredible and she's plucking out lines and stuff in the book, too. And then you've got, you know, some of the industry's best designers cinematographers production designers, costume designer, all that kind of stuff. You know, we we had all the elements.

Where'd you shoot it? Um, we shot in London and then on the on the moors in Yorkshire.

So, series were up there and so yeah, I mean, we kind of had it all there and and it all came together and we get along and it was Yeah, it was just great. It was so great.

I can't wait. I can't wait to see do that together. I mean, you're you're you're so I'm so taken with you. You you seem

so charming and warm, as I said at the at the be and grounding. You're just such a pleasure. I I like

just a farm girl. Yeah. Is Is there What What knocks you off What knocks you off balance? Where when are you not charming? When are you not like what what what would Tom tell us is really your kryptonite?

Yeah. When I'm hungry. Oh, yeah. You don't you I'm not charming when I'm hungry and I'm almost always hungry to be honest. I get hangry.

Yeah, he's he calls me dragoon sometimes. He's like he knows. He's like I need to feed the dragon. Like

does he cook for you? Yeah, he's an amazing cook. Such Yeah, he could be a chef. He's so good.

I want to know how to cook. God damn it. He'll You guys will be golf besties. You can Oh, don't get me. You think he loves cooking for you? You should see what he does with the Big Green Egg. He's Oh my god.

I'll steal him. It's his It's his other mistakes. Just take him. Yeah, take him. Take him. He'll love it.

What's your What's your What's your go-to? What's your go-to meal? If you're like, "Honey, I'm really hungry. I fix my favorite thing." You know what it is? What is it?

To be honest, he can he can cook a steak better than any restaurant can. Like his like it's it's almost his steak. Oh, I don't know what he does, but it's magic. So,

he does that in the Green Egg. He Oh, he he'll do it. Oh, no. Yeah, I think he does a bit of a oven/ reverse sear in a skillet pan situation for his steaks, but he can do it on the green egg as well.

Somebody made me a hamburger once and put an egg on it with blue cheese. I was like, "No thanks." That's cool. Save it for the book. Um,

Margot, uh, yeah, this is Marggo's time. Sean, um, thank you so much for joining us today. Um, I know you've got a lot of press in front of you. appreciate all the time.

Best of luck luck with the film. We're going to watch it uh this afternoon. We're all going together. We're going to go to Century City this afternoon.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Of course. It's the 16th today. Yes. Go watch it. Go watch it together. You're our core demographic, so enjoy. Tell me where you so great meeting you.

Thank you for doing this. Thank you. Good luck with the with the play as well, Sean.

Oh, thank you, honey. Thank you so much. So sweet of you. All right. Well, hopefully we'll see you soon. See you soon.

Thanks for Oh, I mean I I need to shower all the negativity and the just the she is something else, man.

She's a the career. I mean, bam, bam, bam, movie, big movie, big movie, big movie, big movie. I mean, she's and she just got here like 5 minutes ago. And when she said she was on Panam, I felt like that was like 5 years ago. what was like 15 years ago. But if you just look at like she just so hit the ground running coming here,

you know what I mean? And just and just doing quality things after quality things. Always really good in everything she does. And I think the thing what what's most what's almost impossible to get my head around is

Sean, you parking at Hillrest and then you go over to the patio to have lunch like indoors or outdoors.

What is going on? How did you get in there? you got there is just Jason will take this to the for the rest of his days.

But wait, how do you crest Country Club? I can play there, but as a guest. Okay, so why is it hard to get?

I'm not I'm not I'm not like I can't call in and have a [ __ ] lunch date there. I'm not a member.

So you have to be a member to have lunch there. So mad. Yeah. Was the Mattel guy a member there?

His name is Enan. Um no, a friend of ours was a mutual friend of ours. Two [ __ ] non-members having a business meeting. Unbelievable. All right, getting back into it. This this woman um an incredible actor, incredible producer.

Uh I think we'll just be at the at the tip top of our profession for a very very long time.

Talented, beautiful, smart, all those things. Yeah, I do. Just really quick. out of all the movies. Yeah.

That I would have ever guessed made would make out of all of her all of her movies in in her on her resume that all of her movies on her resume that would have made over a billion dollars. I would have never guessed it would have been

barbby bar. No, no. Here's let me explain to you what the buy. Wait, at least at least by

Oh [ __ ] that's better. I just don't think you can you can't make up a word for it to fit the body. You have to find a legitimate

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Who speaks in "Margot Robbie | SmartLess"?

Sean Hayes (Host), Will Arnett (Host), Margot Robbie (Guest).

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A casual conversation covering personal routines and behind-the-scenes dynamics among Margot Robbie, Will, and Sean, highlighting light banter about temperature habits, work ethic, and upcoming film projects. The dialogue showcases camaraderie, improvisation, and peek-ins into their creative process.

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