Emma Mackey Next To Margot Robbie

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The star of Netflix's Sex Education Emma Mackey told the Independent that she wishes people would stop comparing her to Margot Robbie.

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I genuinely just don't see it at all, she said. Like, it's lovely to be compared to Margot Robbie, but mostly I'd rather people focus on the jobs that we're both doing rather than what we look like.

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The similarities of the two actresses are undeniable, with the Independent stating that they have the same high cheekbones, expressive brows and square jaw. However, Mackey is tired of the comparison and believes the film industry encounters issue time and time again.

Hollywood churns out people who look the same and we love to put people in boxes, said Mackey. It's just a thing that we do as a species, we categorise people, we always have.

Obviously, this isn't the first time that Mackey has heard the comparison — and Robbie has even commented on it herself. In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Ali Plumb, Robbie admitted that she was mistaken for the Sex Education star at The Apple Pan diner.

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Someone came up to me, I was eating a burger, said Robbie. And they were like 'I loved you in 'Sex Education, ' that show is so cool, we just started watching it.' And I was like 'I'm so sorry, it's not me.'

Responding to a clip of that video with BBC Radio 1's Greg James, Mackey said I just love the 'Oh, sorry, it's not me' — so sweet. It just made me laugh.

It is like a running joke now, like have Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey been seen in the same room? But all the people who know me well don't see it at all. But I'll take it!

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In Sex Education, Mackey stars as Maeve Wiley — the person who first convinces Otis (Asa Butterfield) to run an unsanctioned sex clinic as a business venture — and Maeve has quickly become something of a feminist icon. Again, Mackey doesn't fully embrace the idea.

I just believe in equality for people, so it's not such a big deal. I'd rather be remembered for that than being an a--hole, so that's good.

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Margot Robbie has revealed that she and director Greta Gerwig “thought it would be funny” to cast her celebrity doppelgänger Emma Mackey in Barbie.

While the Sex Education star admitted in 2022 that it “would be nice to move past” the comparisons, Robbie recently said that she and Gerwig intentionally played directly into them.

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“[Mackey] plays one of the Barbies in the movie pretty much because Greta and I thought it would be funny. We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar, ” she said.

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However, the joke didn’t end up making the final cut after they realised they didn’t “look that similar” once they were in costume.

“Once we got all dressed up as our Barbies, we were kind of like, ‘We don’t actually look that similar, ’” the Australian actor recalled. “Like, when she’s got her brown hair and I've got my blonde hair, we don't look THAT similar, so we didn’t put that joke in the movie.”

Twitter was sent into a frenzy when it was first announced that Mackey had been cast alongside Robbie’s eponymous Mattel doll who, after getting booted from Barbieland, sets off to the human world to find true happiness.

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Previously commenting on the matter in a separate interview with The , Mackey said that although the comparisons are “lovely”, she would rather “people focus on the jobs that we’re both doing rather than what we look like”.

“Hollywood churns out people who look the same and we love to put people in boxes, ” she added. “It’s just a thing that we do as a species, we categorise people, we always have.”

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’s cinematic release on 21 July, the first reactions from critics were overwhelmingly positive and called for Ryan Gosling to get an Oscar for his “scene-stealing” role.

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In a new interview, Gosling, 42, who stars as Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, shared that Robbie raised money for charity by mandating “pink days” on set and fining her co-stars and crew members if they failed to wear a pink item of clothing.

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Fans have pointed to a similar likeness between the two stars since Mackey's breakthrough role in Netflix's Sex Education. The comparisons were further fuelled when the pair were cast in Greta Gerwig's upcoming Barbie movie and reports suggested that they will both be playing different versions of the famous doll.

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In a new interview with Total Film, Mackey said that she doesn't mind the comparison to Robbie because she looks up to the star.

It's just funny, Mackey told the publication. And I think Margot has had the grace and humor to be able to play on that, and allow me to be in the same film as her – bless her. It's just a joke in real life. I'm like, 'We don't look anything like each other.'

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She continued: I don't mind it. It's Margot Robbie. Are you kidding me? She's the best. I look up to her so much. I don't mind the comparisons. But it would be nice to move past that.

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This is not the first time that Mackey has addressed the lookalike comments. In 2020, she told the Independent that she wished people would stop comparing her to Robbie.

I genuinely just don't see it at all, she said. Like, it's lovely to be compared to Margot Robbie, but mostly I'd rather people focus on the jobs that we're both doing rather than what we look like.

Mackey added: Hollywood churns out people who look the same and we love to put people in boxes. It's just a thing that we do as a species, we categorize people, we always have.

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Robbie has also admitted in aninterview with BBC Radio 1's Ali Plumb that she has been mistaken for the Sex Education star at The Apple Pan diner in Los Angeles.

Someone came up to me, I was eating a burger, the Harley Quinn actress said. And they were like 'I loved you in Sex Education, that show is so cool, we just started watching it.' And I was like 'I'm so sorry, it's not me.'

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Barbie, which premieres in theaters in July 2023, also stars Mackey's Sex Education costars Ncuti Gatwa and Connor Swindells, as well as Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu, and Issa Rae. Robbie and Ryan Gosling will play the two leads, Barbie and Ken.

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