Margot Robbie returns home to Australia with baby boy

Margot Robbie has been spotted in Australia with her baby boy in tow, as the actress wrapped up filming for her controversial new movie.

New mum Margot Robbie has been spotted back in her home country.

The Australian actress, 34, was seen arriving at Brisbane airport Tuesday with her baby boy in tow, as well as her mother, Sarie Kessler.

The three-time Oscar nominee pushed her son in a pram as she made her way through the terminal, while Kessler trailed closely behind wheeling a trolley of luggage.

Margot Robbie arrives at Brisbane airport with her baby. Picture: BACKGRID

Robbie welcomed her baby boy in October. Picture: BACKGRID

It’s the first time Robbie, who hails from the Gold Coast, has been sighted in Australia since welcoming her first child with husband Tom Ackerley in October.

Their baby boy was born in Los Angeles, where the couple live.

It marks the first sighting of Robbie in her home country since becoming a mother. Picture: BACKGRID

The star was joined by her mother Sarie Kessler. Picture: BACKGRID

Robbie has just wrapped shooting the much-anticipated new big screen adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel Wuthering Heights, which also stars fellow Australian Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff.

The doomed romance, in which Robbie plays Catherine Earnshaw, is being brought to the screen yet again, this time, by Emerald Fennell, the writer-director behind hit films Saltburn and Promising Young Woman.

But Robbie’s casting as ‘Cathy’ raised some eyebrows from the outset. And a warning, some story spoilers below.

While Bronte’s novel doesn’t include specific dates and ages, Cathy is barely an adult when she tragically dies during childbirth, and is thought to be no more than 19, some 15 years younger than Robbie.

Photos from production in the UK earlier this year, which showed Robbie acting out her character’s wedding to Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif), further incensed diehard fans of the novel, with many taking issue with Robbie’s age, her costume and styling, and even with her face looking too “modern” for a story set in the late 1700s.

Jacob Elordi on the set of Wuthering Heights alongside Margot Robbie and Hong Chau. Picture: SPLASH/BACKGRID

“Oh yes, the highlights and the tan scream 1700s,” one person quipped.

“Why is she looking straight out of Sephora?” another asked.

Another wondered if the film was “somehow not related to the book, [but] actually about a group of 30 year olds that live in a gated community called Wuthering Heights? In present day?”

“Seeing Margot Robbie as Catherine from wuthering heights in that godawful dress just ruined my entire week,” read another complaint.

While it’s not uncommon for mature actors to portray younger characters, much of the tragedy of the novel lies in the premature nature of Catherine’s death, as her true love, Heathcliff, lives on tormented to have lost her before they had a chance to be together.

Wuthering Heights is slated to be released February next year.

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