Does Emma Mackey Look Like Margot Robbie

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.

Margot Robbie Opens Up On Casting Emma Mackey In Barbie Movie

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.

Emma Mackey Doesn't Really Think She Looks Like 'barbie' Co Star Margot Robbie

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

Emma Mackey Wants You To Stop Comparing Her To Margot Robbie

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.”

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.”