Margot Robbie Harry Potter

It's no secret that if you really want to get to know someone, you just have to read their favourite books – and Australian icon Margot Robbie has just let us in on hers.

Series, the actor and producer revealed her favourite childhood books, what she's reading now, and the books she turns to again and again.

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I was a voracious reader when I was little, and I think I read for the escapism – the same reason I love movies, Robbie says in the episode.

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I was eight years old and in school, Robbie says. Our teacher was reading out loud to the class and as soon as she started reading it, I was hooked.

The teacher stopped reading so they could do another lesson. I was like, 'But what happens?' Robbie recalls. And she was like, 'You'll find out tomorrow'. And I was like, 'No, I need to know now. I can't wait till tomorrow'. So I went home and found my sister's copy and read the whole thing, and then I was hooked.

While on a family holiday. I was at my mum's friend's house up on property where there was no TV, nothing to do, but there was this book,

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Books, as well as Nancy Drew. It's kind of strange, I was obviously a kid in the 90s, but these books I think are 40s, 50s and 60s. I don't know why I was more interested in literature from the past.

Another quirk from childhood? Reading on the roof or in a tree. Yes, you read that right. Robbie grew up in Queensland's Currumbin Valley, in a not very big house with five of them in it. 

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You'd often want to be outside to get away from everyone else, she says. So I had a tree I'd go sit in and read, and do my homework. And I'd read on the roof all the time. It was another place to get away from everyone.

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Luckily, she no longer needs to find an escape to read—she just needs to pop into the reading nook in the LA-based home she shares with husband, Tom Ackerley, ideally with a cup of tea.

These days, you're more likely to find Robbie reading for work, whether that's a script for a new movie or a book as part of her character research.

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I remember picking it up and starting it before I left, and obviously I was too young or not in the right headspace to appreciate Hemingway, but once I got there, this book became everything to me, Robbie says, her face lighting up. I stepped into a completely different world.

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The 70s was a fascinating time of change, both culturally in America and also for film industries, she says. There's such a stark difference from 1969 onwards, when

Came out, but what it did and how it shifted that era of filmmaking has completely had a knock-on effect on all my favourite movies. This book is so good for talking about that.

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Alex Bruce-Smith is the Digital Managing Editor of marie claire Australia, with more than a decade of experience in digital journalism and media. She's interviewed everyone from Florence Pugh to Anthony Albanese, is partial to a dirty martini, and can usually be found in jeans, sneakers and an oversized blazer.

Margot Robbie Used To Read 'harry Potter' On The Roof Of Her House

Luckily, she no longer needs to find an escape to read—she just needs to pop into the reading nook in the LA-based home she shares with husband, Tom Ackerley, ideally with a cup of tea.

These days, you're more likely to find Robbie reading for work, whether that's a script for a new movie or a book as part of her character research.

Margot

I remember picking it up and starting it before I left, and obviously I was too young or not in the right headspace to appreciate Hemingway, but once I got there, this book became everything to me, Robbie says, her face lighting up. I stepped into a completely different world.

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The 70s was a fascinating time of change, both culturally in America and also for film industries, she says. There's such a stark difference from 1969 onwards, when

Came out, but what it did and how it shifted that era of filmmaking has completely had a knock-on effect on all my favourite movies. This book is so good for talking about that.

Watch:

Alex Bruce-Smith is the Digital Managing Editor of marie claire Australia, with more than a decade of experience in digital journalism and media. She's interviewed everyone from Florence Pugh to Anthony Albanese, is partial to a dirty martini, and can usually be found in jeans, sneakers and an oversized blazer.

Margot Robbie Used To Read 'harry Potter' On The Roof Of Her House