Margot Robbie reveals Australia’s next big global star after posing for British Vogue
Margot Robbie’s high-voltage Vogue spread has landed — along with her jaw-dropping claim that an up-and-coming Aussie actor could be the Daniel Day-Lewis of his generation.
Aussie icon Margot Robbie has graced the cover of British Vogue UK again to promote the steamy new screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
Off the back of the record-shattering success that was Barbie, the powerhouse has taken on a notably less PG project alongside fellow Australian heart-throb Jacob Elordi.
The Euphoria hunk has taken on the role of the brooding mutton-chopped Heathcliff and Robbie has nothing but praise for the Brisbane-born star.
“He’s incredible and I believe in him so much,” she told British Vogue.
“I honestly think he’s our generation’s Daniel Day-Lewis.”
From shooting to stardom as the tortured love-interest in the drug-fuelled drama Euphoria, to dazzling audiences in a conflictingly good-looking Frankenstein, Elordi is going from strength to strength.
The 28-year-old returned Robbies’ compliments, describing his co-star as “a force.”
“She makes it look easy,” he shared with British Vogue.
“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 5pm.”
True to Elordi’s apt analysis, Robbie was only three months post-partum when she shot the highly anticipated drama – having just had her first child with film producer husband Tom Ackerley.
Robbie, who plays Cathy in Emerald Fennel’s risque adaptation of Bronte’s epic love story, said the heart-racing trailer was not without criticism.
With the film’s original music being produced by BRAT chart-topper Charlie XCX and the initial scenes being Elordi’s-fingers-in-Robbie’s-mouth-level-raunchy, Wuthering Heights fans were faced with a modern take on the classic novel.
However Fennel, who directed the deliciously twisted Saltburn – which Elordi also starred in – has confidence that the movie will make its mark.
“I asked Emerald what her dream outcome was,” Robbie told the outlet.
“She said, ‘I want this to be this generation’s Titanic’.”
Dressed in a white long-sleeved top and trailing feathered skirt covered skirt, Robbie perches haphazardly on a dilapidated wall to kick off the fashion magazine’s new year edition.
The shoot took place in the England’s rural South Downs to replicate the eerie effect of the misty Yorkshire moors – where Wuthering Heights plays out.
Photo Mikael Jansson took the series of hauntingly beautiful snaps, with superstar Robbie looking as glorious as ever ahead of her latest project.
Set to be released two days before Valentines Day next year, Wuthering Heights is already touted to be a box-office hit.
Regardless of critical reception, Elordi and Robbie enrapt in a fervent love affair is not going to make for a difficult watch.
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