Margot Robbie Watched Rachel McAdams’ The Notebook Audition To Inspire Her

Margot Robbie has shared the one iconic movie scene that helped her bring her A-game to every audition.

In a recent interview on the Radio 2 breakfast show, the Wuthering Heights actor told Scott Mills that she used to revisit clips of Rachel McAdams’ audition for The Notebook before trying out for a part.

“She’s so good, and she’s so charming and real, and like, in it,” Margot explained. “I used to watch it before I’d go to an audition, I was like, ‘OK, just try and be as good as her.’”

When Scott asked if she’d ever got a job off the back of studying Rachel’s audition tape, Margot admitted: “Technically, you could say any part I got would’ve been in thanks to her because I was always watching her audition right before.”

“It’s just the commitment. I always watched it to remind me you have to fully commit in the audition room,” she added.

Margot and Rachel actually worked together in 2013 time travel rom-com About Time, where Margot had a minor part as a love interest of Domhnall Gleeson’s character.

“I had a small role, and she’s the lead in it,” the Oscar nominee pointed out. “I was absolutely no one back then and she was so lovely to me and my brother. I’ll never forget how she’d go out of her way to be so kind. I just love her.”

It looks like the allegations of Rachel McAdams being a genuinely great human (co-signed by Domhnall himself) aren’t going anywhere.

Margot is currently in the thick of the promo trail for Emerald Fennell’s hotly-anticipated Wuthering Heights adaptation, which finally arrived in cinemas on Friday.

The Australian actor plays Cathy to Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff, a casting decision which has sparked some backlash given the insinuation in Emily Brontë’s original book that the character is a person of colour.

Emerald recently addressed the “whitewashing” controversy, insisting: “You can only ever kind of make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it.”

Margot has also defended Emerald’s choice to cast Jacob, assuring sceptics in a previous Vogue interview: “Trust me, you’ll be happy.”