Margot Robbie has opened up about her obsession with all things Harry Potter – even admitting that her friends hired a Harry Potter-inspired stripper for her hen do. The actress – who covers ES Magazine this week – said that she thought it was very 'thoughtful'.
'[The Clapham crowd] are a rowdy bunch and the combination was explosive,' she said, talking about the group of friends she used to live with in London who organised her send off into married life. 'They hired a Harry Potter-themed stripper for me; he had all the Harry Potter phrases and innuendoes. I was so touched, it was really such a thoughtful thing to do. They know me so well.'
The actress went on to admit that she actually reads all the Harry Potter books on a loop as a form of relaxation before bed – and has been doing this for years.
'Right now I am on the fifth book. I know what’s coming next when I turn the page. I can’t meditate and this is what I have to do to fall asleep. Vaughn [the director of Terminal] told me that if you have trouble sleeping, which I do, you should read something that you are very familiar with to calm you. If I read something new before I go to bed, my brain goes 1,000 miles an a hour. Reading Harry Potter makes me happy and calms me. I read for about an hour to two hours every night. My husband hates it.'
In the interview, Robbie also touched on some more serious matters, including her thoughts on the #MeToo movement.
'Of course I knew the problem existed,' she said. 'I just hadn’t viewed it as a problem we were allowed to be angry about. Because no one spoke about it, no one said, "I am not putting up with this anymore". It wasn’t called a problem, it was called a fact of life. That is such a terrible mindset. If we just accept things like sexual harassment as a fact of life, it doesn’t get fixed.'
The full interview appears in this week’s issue of ES Magazine, Thursday 19 July.
