W MAGAZINE – Margot Robbie and Michael B. Jordan seem to effortlessly check all the movie star boxes: Megawatt charm? Check (those smiles!). Actor clout? No problem (having Martin Scorsese and Ryan Coogler launch their respective careers can’t hurt). Lucrative blockbuster movie franchises? Yep, that too (Robbie in Suicide Squad and Jordan in Creed, with a memorable detour into Wakanda). So, as it turns out, they have a lot to talk about—and not just about fame and their good fortune. Here, as part of our annual Best Performances portfolio, Robbie, who starred in the recent palace-intrigue period drama Mary Queen of Scots, and Jordan, who returned in Creed 2 and dominated the screen in Black Panther this year, sit down with W’s Editor at Large Lynn Hirschberg to share not only how it is they make morally questionable villains like Harley Quinn and Killmonger into magnetic antiheroes, but also their totally embarrassing early email addresses, their most memorable red carpet fashion faux pas, and their frankly amazing first kiss stories.

So Michael, what’s the first album you ever bought?

Michael B. Jordan: First album? Ah, man, that’s a good one.
Margot Robbie: Oh, that is a good one.
Jordan: I want to say, on cassette tape… um, Usher’s My Way.
Robbie: That’s a good answer.
Jordan: You’re taking me back. I want to say I rode my bike to the music store that was, like, down the street.

What was the first album you ever bought, Margot?

Robbie: I think the first album I bought was, um, AFI’s Sing the Sorrow. I was in a bit of a heavy metal phase. But I think the first single I bought was Blink 182, “All the Small Things.”
Jordan: Okay. So the heavy metal. Are you still in that phase or did you pass that?
Robbie: Occasionally.
Jordan: Occasionally?
Robbie: Occasionally.

Have you ever gone through a heavy metal phase, Michael?

Jordan: I have not.
Robbie: [Laughs.]
Jordan: But electric guitar solos are my thing. Like, I love, the Ernie Isleys of the world, the “Who’s That Lady” solo is pretty incredible. [Michael Jackson’s] “Dirty Diana” is pretty good.

Do you play air guitar?

Jordan: Air guitar? All day. [Laughs.]
Robbie: I can air guitar. That’s about the extent of my musical prowess, really.

Michael, did you box before Creed?

Jordan: I never officially boxed but karate, martial arts, and stuff like that. And then I kinda segued into boxing.

And you, Margot, have you ever boxed?

Robbie: I’ve done a bit of boxing, yeah—mainly to prepare for fight training, like stunt work. And I really, really like it. I have stupidly long arms, like, they’re too long for my body. So actually it’s kind of good when you’re boxing.
Jordan: The reach is incredible.
Robbie: An extra long reach. And it looks good on camera. Having long limbs on camera makes your punches—
Jordan: Your punch is a little wider, yeah, yeah, yeah. She knows what she’s talking about.

On Monday night (December 10) Margot attended the London premiere of her new movie Mary Queen of Scots, together with Saoirse Ronan, the movie director Josie Rourke and the rest of cast & crew.

She looked very regal and ever so beautiful wearing a Rodarte ruffle hem flocked dot chiffon gown with a sequinned rose at the waist. One of my favorite looks of her so far!

More than 500 photos from the premiere have now been added to the gallery, but be sure to keep our site twitter checked @MargotRobbieCom in case of new additions! Enjoy 🙂

THE NEW YORK TIMES – When Josie Rourke made her pitch to direct “Mary Queen of Scots,” about the royal rivalry between the Scottish ruler Mary Stuart and the English Queen Elizabeth I, she suggested thinking of the movie as a renaissance version of “Heat.” Like that thriller, which cast Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on opposite sides of the law, “what the film needed was a really great scene for two women to play opposite each other,” Rourke said.

Much of “Mary Queen of Scots” (due Friday) builds to that moment when Mary and Elizabeth finally meet — a cinematic flourish, as historians believe the two communicated only by letter. The film’s scene is the sort of centerpiece that only works if you know the women playing it are formidably matched equals offscreen, too. In casting Margot Robbie as Elizabeth opposite Saoirse Ronan’s Mary, Rourke found a pair so well-matched that they even competed against each other for last season’s best actress Oscar.

Ronan was nominated then for “Lady Bird,” a coming-of-age tale that signaled the 24-year-old actress’s interest in playing complicated young women, while Robbie was in the mix for her performance in “I, Tonya” as the disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, proving the 28-year-old actress could play roles quite unlike her breakout bombshell in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The two women sit atop Hollywood’s young A-list, but Ronan and Robbie both bristle at traditional notions of how an actress — or, for that matter, a queen — is expected to wield that power.

On Monday (December 03) Margot attended a Mary Queen of Scots screening with Q&A hosted by Women of the World, togehter with the movie director Josie Rourke.

During the event Margot wore a Rouje Gabin Dress, in rose print holly (thanks Dress Like Margot).

Photos from the panel have now been added to the gallery, enjoy!

Always on Tuesday night (December 04) Margot also attended the Chanel Metiers D’Art 2018/19 Show held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

For the occasion she wore a black oversized tulle dress from the Chanel Spring/Summer 2019 Collection with Paul Andrew aristata peep toe mules shoes (infos by Dress Like Margot).

Photos from the event have now been added to the gallery, be sure to check them out!

On Tuesday, December 4, Margot attended the New York Premiere of Mary Queen of Scots, held at the Paris Theater in New York. The premiere was also attended by her co-star Saoirse Ronan, the movie director Josie Rourke and other cast and crew members.

Margot looked splendid in a Chanel Spring/Summer Haute Couture 2018 Collection sheer and encrusted halter dress with silver strappy sandal and Chanel Coco crush white gold and diamond earrings (thanks to Dress Like Margot for the infos!)

More than 500 photos from the event have now been added to the gallery, be sure to check them out and enjoy! Also keep our site twitter checked in case of any new additions @MargotRobbieCom.

USA TODAY – Margot Robbie is being royally honest.

The star of “Mary Queen of Scots” (in theaters Friday in New York and Los Angeles, expands to additional cities Dec. 21) wasn’t simply in the market for a juicy part when she signed on to play Queen Elizabeth I opposite Saoirse Ronan, who takes on the romantic (and doomed) Scottish monarch.

She was trying to add to her girl gang.

“I love all the dudes I’ve worked with, they’re amazing. (But) in real life I hang out with my girlfriends all the time,” says Robbie, 28. “I have a girl gang in New York, a girl gang in London, a girl gang in Australia. That’s who I hang out with. I have a lot of guy friends, too, but there’s nothing quite like the girl gang. And I was like, I never get to act with girls onscreen.”

The dueling queen drama was thus coronated. “Mary Queen of Scots” examines the fraught relationship between the dueling Scottish royal and her English cousin during their 16th-century reigns. The younger Mary, who herself had reasonable claim to the English throne, married and produced a male heir, posing a two-pronged threat to Elizabeth’s reign. She was also a Catholic slandered by claims of sexual promiscuity and forced to flee Scotland.

Yesterday morning (December 04) Margot was guest at ‘Good Morning America’, where she talked once again about the upcoming movie Mary Queen of Scots, her co-star Saoirse Ronan and the Harley Quinn movie.

Margot for the occasion wore Isabel Marant lamia printed silk shirt and livia silk skirt, Isabel Marant archee suede and leather ankle boots, a Chanel bag and a pair of Louis Abel radix earrings in silver (always thanks to Dress Like Margot for the infos!)

Several photos of Margot outside the ABC studios have been added to the gallery, together with a selfie of her and Emma Bunton! Below you can also watch her piece of the interview during the show. Enjoy!

Back on Monday night (December 03) Margot was guest The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she talked about her upcoming movie Mary Queen of Scots but also the Harley Quinn one!

She looked amazing wearing a Brock Collection off-the-shoulder floral jacquard dress with Jimmy Choo Romy 100 shoes and Mizuki sea of beauty collection french wire white pearl fluid gold earrings (thanks to Dress Like Margot for the infos!)

Photos from her guest appearance have now been added to the gallery, and below you can also watch parts of her interview! Enjoy 🙂

Margot Robbie and Jimmy have the most awkward handshake ever before diving into talk about Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and what she was doing the moment she heard she’d been nominated for an Oscar for I, Tonya.

Margot Robbie talks about being kept from her co-star Saoirse Ronan during the filming of Mary Queen of Scots.

Margot Robbie and Jimmy take turns giving answers to personal questions that only they know, forcing each other to take a mystery shot if they refuse to reveal the question.

Yesterday (December 03) Margot attended the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations for her upcoming movie Mary Queen of Scots at the The Robin Williams Center in New York, together with her co-stars Jack Lowden and Joe Alywn.

She was wearing a retro-inspired Chanel Spring 2019 cardigan, styled with a pair of high-waist baggy ‘mum’ jeans with permanent crease marks. Black Alumnae strappy sandals completed her seamlessly pulled together day time outfit and a Chanel round leather cross body bag (thanks to DressLikeMargot and Red Carpet Fashion Awards for the infos!)

Several photos from the event have now been added to our gallery, be sure to check them out!