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- Margot Robbie is opening up about filming the new Wuthering Heights adaptation, just three months after welcoming her son
- The Australian actress says that she was “in a very different headspace” as a result
- The Barbie star welcomed her first child with husband Tom Ackerley in October 2024
Margot Robbie is opening up about heading to set for Wuthering Heights, just months after welcoming her son.
Speaking to British Vogue in an interview published on Thursday, Dec. 4, the Australian actress, 35, got candid about the challenges she faced filming the new Charlotte Brönte adaptation after welcoming her first child with husband Tom Ackerley in October 2024.
“I was three months postpartum when we started shooting. So I was in a very different headspace. I didn’t do my usual routine. It was more haphazard,” she told the outlet.
“And I remember saying to [writer-director Emerald Fennell], ‘What if I’m not prepared enough?’ She kept saying, ‘I don’t want you to prepare. I just need you to be in the moment,’ ” Robbie said, explaining that Fennell’s response “was a lovely way of relieving my anxiety. It was about being in my body as opposed to my head.”
The Wolf of Wall Street alum welcomed her son, whose name has not been made public, on Oct. 17, 2024.
A source confirmed to PEOPLE in November that the couple welcomed their baby boy. They also noted that the couple were loving spending time with their baby in Los Angeles. “They’ve both been settling into being parents,” the source added, “They’re homebodies, so it’s been lovely to spend the time just them, at home with him. They’re so happy.”
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Though she doesn’t often publicly speak about her son, Robbie told Entertainment Tonight in August 2025 that motherhood is “the best.”
“It’s funny, you try to explain to someone who has kids, you don’t need to because they get it,” Robbie said, acknowledging how parenthood enriched her life. “And if they don’t, it’s probably just really boring to hear.”
The 2026 Wuthering Heights — also starring Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell — is based on Brontë’s novel, which follows the doomed romance between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw as jealousy, obsession and class divide spiral into a cycle of revenge that haunts their families for generations.
Elsewhere in her conversation with Vogue, Robbie spoke about how she, Fennell, 40, and Elordi, 28, worked to rapture the romance from the British classic novel. According to the actress, she and the director would often discuss ideas, like “what reads to us as hot or exciting or sexy” and “it’s not just a sex position or someone taking their shirt off.”
One scene that channeled the steamy romance involved Elordi’s Heathcliff picking Catherine (Robbie) up “with only one arm!” and using his other hand to shield her face from the rain. “It almost made me weak at the knees,” the actress said.
Robbie added, “It was the little things that we loved as two women in our 30s, and this movie is primarily for people in our demographic. These epic romances and period pieces aren’t often made by women.”
Wuthering Heights will be released on Feb. 13, 2026.
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