Emma Mackey Margot Robbie Same Person

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.”Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Twitter Snapchat icon A ghost. Snapchat Fliboard icon A stylized letter F. Flipboard Pinterest icon The letter P styled to look like a thumbtack pin. Pinterest Link icon An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link

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.

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.

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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.'

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.'

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.