We all love a good doppelgänger moment, and the Barbie movie almost went full meta with resident Barbies and famed IRL lookalikes Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey.
In case you're not as clued-up on the internet as we are, users online have been pointing out an uncanny resemblance between Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey for a
Time, but especially since a 2019 post by Instagram account @morphy_me, who posted a few images morphing the two actresses' faces together. Whether you see the resemblance while their faces are separate is another story, but there's no denying that the edit is as seamless as they come — thus, Robbie and Mackey have been closely linked ever since.
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Movie itself as a little inside gag. I've been getting told for years that I look like the girl from Sex Education, who's Emma Mackey, Robbie recounted in a recent puppy interview with Buzzfeed and
Costar Ryan Gosling. Robbie even went as far as to suggest that one of the main reasons why Mackey was cast in
in the first place was because she and director Greta Gerwig thought it'd be funny to cheekily reference their frequent comparisons in the movie.
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We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar, Robbie revealed, “[but] once we got all dressed up as our Barbies, we were kind of like, 'We don't look that similar.' When she's got her brown hair, and I've got my blonde hair, so we didn't put that joke in the movie. But when people come up and say, 'I loved you in Sex
Mackey herself has also addressed the doppelgänger comparisons a handful of times. In fact, in an interview with Total Film, she also called the lookalike theories funny and elaborated a bit on how the uncanny elephant in the room impacted the
(L-R) Ana Cruz Kayne, Sharon Rooney, Alexandra Shipp, Margot Robbie, Hari Nef, and Emma Mackey in Barbie Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
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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, said the Sex Ed star. “It's just a joke in real life. I'm like, 'We don't look anything like each other.' 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.”Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for free
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.
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.”
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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.
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.
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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