Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware - Margot Robbie

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

It’s a huge one this week, we have superstar Margot Robbie coming home to Clapham! Fresh from the Eurostar after the Parisian premiere for her new film ‘Wuthering Heights’ (starring Jacob Elordi and directed by friend of the pod, the gorgeous Emerald Fennell) Margot was exactly what we always dreamed she would be; a gem of a guest and gorgeous human! We talked about the juggle with producing and acting in films, the food she ate growing up (including ‘Fivesies’ and 'Bogan Narrrrchos’), how her own gin ‘Papa Salt’ came to be, teaching Bette Midler about ‘Gavin & Stacey’, the bachelorette party her friends threw for her character Cathy, her husband being a phenomenal cook, the accent training she needed when she started in ‘Neighbours', and we hear how she nearly killed her grandma-in-law by feeding her raw ham! Margot, you’re welcome to join us every week, and we’re absolutely popping round for one of Tom’s famous ‘egg’ steaks! 'Wuthering Heights' is released globally in cinemas on 13th February. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to table mummers. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here with Lenny looking fat. How are you, Lenny? I'm okay, all things considered. I won't go into detail. Okay. I have had a really busy weekend. A bit with you. Yeah. But I went from like putting out a song, being on Graham Norton, to volunteering on the hot dog stand at the school disco. I thought I was doing the bar, but I even said I was manhandling, like, jarred. Did you prefer the bar? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Last time you've got to do. Got drunk? Yeah. Yeah. No, I still got drunk, but it's fine. Okay. Went to really cool new club in Peckham called Palais.

Wow. Which is fab, so that's exciting. So yeah, I feel absolutely wrecked, to be honest. And then I've been trying to cram for this guest that we've got today. I'm very excited about because, you know, these are her ends. So it feels only right that she's coming home. She's back in her own hunting ground. We've got Margot Robbie coming on today.

I hope she's hungry. I'm sure she's tired. She was in Paris last night for the premiere of Wuthering Heights there and her train is delayed and she is coming straight from the Euristar to here. She's on her way.

I'm sure she's hungry. Yeah. What have you made, mum? I've made salmon with fennel and clementines. So the salmon's going to be baked in the oven in a sauce that I've made with star anise. My own citrus vodka. I thought it was Vabina.

I didn't use Fabina because I didn't have a Fabina about my person. But I did have lemon peel, which you put in a jar. Yeah. And it's been marinating for a week. Wow. And then it's going to go on the salmon, that sauce, and then I'm going to bake it. And then I'm going to put candid clementines on the top. Let's hope it's nice.

It's a guardian recipe, isn't it? Yes, guardian feast. It reminds me a bit of the Otolengi. The Otolengi. What booze does he put in with that? Uso or Arirondi. Iraq. Yeah.

And then I've done a crunchy salad. Yeah. I've roasted chickpeas in my air fryer. Very pleased with those. And then you've brought one of your breads. Yeah. I have. Do you think this is a TikTok?

I think it's a decent one. It's got a good rise on it. I made another one this morning that had been in the fridge for just under 48 hours. And it had lost its height. So this one is... That sounds great. I think it's going to be okay. It may not be as sour.

Because it's only had like 14 hours. Oh. But never mind. You could be talking in Chinese and I'd understand it better. I don't know nothing about baking. Sorry, I'm just... And you're a baker now. No, it looks okay.

You just never know until you cut through. It looks fabulous. Thank you. And then for dessert, I've made a Middle Eastern eaten mess. Yum. So it's got pomegranate, strawberries, pomegranate molasses, sumac, Mosca pony And

Sour cream Have you made this one before? I have but I don't think I did it as religiously as I did it this time And I made marangs last week So that's why I've made it So I could use marangso Oh great Sounds delicious

I hope so So Margot is coming on to talk about Wuthering Heights Which stars her and Jacob Alourdi And Alison Oliver Martin Cloons And revelatory at Owen Cooper Who was in adolescence Yeah

Owing Cooper is so good in it Yeah he's so great And directed by Emerald Fennell, who's been on the podcast before, who we loved. Anyway, we went to see it. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. The costumes, the sex. Yeah, a lot of sets. The Mores.

Charlie XX's soundtrack. A lot of sex. I can't wait to talk to Margo about it. And a lot of sex. Margo Robbie coming up on table manners. Margo Robbie, as I live and breathe. Well, you look fabulous. You don't look flustered after having a very late.

I just got it. I love getting the yostar. Did you eat? I just love it. I actually ate only a little bit. Good. Because I thought that we were going to be eating here. And I almost got the whole meal and then I stopped myself and just had a bit of cheese and bread and cheese and bread. A bit of chutney. And that was saving myself. How are you after the premiere last night? Oh, good. It was so mega. Like it was like a huge theatre in Paris obviously called the Rex. And it fits like two and a half thousand people. So it was massive. Like, I don't know if I've ever, I've never seen a movie with that many people at the same time. But yeah, it was so, it's a stunning theater. And I had this huge Chanel gown.

Oh, it looks amazing. Oh, I loved it so much. I felt like a princess. And it's great. Yeah. And then we went to the Sacrior afterwards and did like a photo and it was raining, which it rains a lot in Wuthering Heights in the movie that we're promoting right now. So it was actually perfect.

It was really fitting. Yeah. Did you and your bosom catch a cold when you were shooting? Like, oh my God. A lot of heaving bosom in that movie. Yeah. Fab, fab bosom, by the way. We love it.

We love it. As uncomfortable as corsets are. Oh, my God. There's that really good shot of when you're getting married and you're like, felt like Rose and Titanic. Oh, my God. Mother being like, you will marry Billy Zane. I quite like that scene, actually.

Can we cheers? Yeah, we do. Welcome home, Kathy. Thank you. Oh yeah. Back in my old stomping ground. Whereabouts did you live? Was it this side?

I was on Clapham Manor Street at the other side. So if you went across the common a little bit like to the right from here, I think. Yeah. Wait, so do you both live here? One of you lived here. She was brought up here. This is your family home? Yeah.

But I don't live here anymore. But we're near enough. We almost lived together. Yeah. Not quite. Well, you're doing this often enough. Yeah, exactly. So yeah.

I mean, how much has Clapham changed since, I mean, I was living. Just more restaurants. More restaurants. Good ones, though. Yeah. I mean, we've got Abbeville Road here and that's got great restaurants on it or places you like to go. I feel like you and Miriam Marguerese are the people that really change things for Clappery. Yeah.

Yeah. Were you here when Nardoulis was open? No. Is that the ice cream? Is it not open anymore? No. Where is that? Had it opened by then?

It's. In old. on the pavement in all the time. Oh yeah. Oh that amazing right across from the common there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I love that place. The best ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yes, no, I get that a lot. It was delicious ice cream. So which places did you go to in Clapham? Did you go to a car? Nothing terribly reputable. It was, I was 24 at the time. It was probably my heaviest party in gear was my Clapham day. So it was a lot of infernoes. Well, that actually, that's a perfect segue. Is it? We've got something. A little gift from us.

Better than an Oscar we've got. Oh my gosh. The envelope's beautiful. I'm going to read it. This certifies that Margot Robbie is officially recognized as Inferno's royalty. Amazing. Entitled to unlimited cue jumps and guaranteed access to our carpeted dance floor, valid forever, signed with love, Infernos. That is amazing.

If I take this to Infernoes, are they going to be like, what the hell is that? I think your face will do enough, but I think you're fine. And you can stick to the carpet even more. Oh, absolutely. I love the carpet. Did you have your, did Inferno's the nightclub, which as a clap and person, I have always actually avoided, which I love that, but I love that. I understand that. I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia, and it's known for Surfers Paradise.

Right. And like, if you're from the Gold Coast, you don't go to Surfers Paradise. Okay, got it. Well, you did actually when you were 18, but then once you got out of that face, you never thought. I would have on Surfers Paradise just for the Surfers. You would have. I think the surfing is actually better elsewhere, I'd say, but it's a big party. What about the surfers?

Surfers. The surfers everywhere on the Gold Coast. Everyone's a surf. Oh, okay, fair enough. It's like embarrassing if you don't surf. Oh, okay. You kind of have to. But no, Infernos was actually the reason we lived where we lived.

Oh, my God, I love you. Because we, my roommates, one of them I'm now married to, but we end up getting married. But at the time when we were just roommates, or just mates and a bunch of us, we went to Inferno's. and they used to tell me about this place, the two guys that I now also have a production company with. Luckily track. They're like Infernoes is the greatest place in the world. So you only have to turn left at the end of Kappa Manor Street.

Well, we didn't live there. But we didn't live there yet. We were doing a job in Belgium where I met them and they said, they would tell me about the infamous infernos. And they're like, this place is so fun. You can't get kicked out of there. That's why it's so great. You can do anything inferno's and you can't get kicked out.

And I was like, wow, that sounds like paradise. And so we all, you know, had a weekend in London when the job was done. And of course, we went to Infernos. And within about 15 minutes, we got kicked out. And while we were getting dragged out by security, I was screaming, but this is Inferno's. I can't get kicked out of Infernos. And the bouncer was like, look, we allow most things.

But when your friend does, then we kick you out. And I was like, okay, fair enough. Have you been kicked out of many clubs, Margot? Most of the clubs in Clapper, I'd say, have kicked us out. Yeah. For a while, we were banned. a number of places. Was Cafe Soul still doing like music?

Yeah, Cafe Soul. That's where I used to go underage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like at my night it suddenly changes from like a lounge bar to like. And you stopped eating crocodile nuggets or whatever. I mean, it was vodka rubs back then. Oh yeah. It was like a random place with like honky tonk bar or like, oh, have you ever been

a mosquito bar? No. That's, that's when Infernos kicks you out. Then you go to mosquito bar. It's, it's. So then you move to. Claphamhamastery. So sorry.

The machine is your place that's on me. Yes. They stay out. Yes. I mean it's revolting but kind of brilliant. You always end up there. Yeah. Yeah.

Well I, um, so we, we, uh, ended up all deciding to move in together to finish that story. And, um, I had gone back to America at that point. And so we were looking online and the guys were like, oh, it's a sign. This place is down the road from inferno. So we literally signed our lease just because it was down the road from inferno. And did you go swimming at the swimming pool? The swimming pool.

Oh, on the Klamanast Street. Yeah, we used to go there. Me too. That's lovely, isn't it? Like the leisure centre? And there's a good, what was the good pub on the end there? The bread and roses is it? No, not known.

Next to bread and roses. Crafties. Crafties. And then Stonhouse around the corner. Stonhouse is really good. Yeah. Is that now called the pig's head now, Mom? No.

Still there? Yeah. That's good. Yeah, it's been a while. My club days were a long time ago. And then the off license across from our house was our, you know, made friends with Johnny shout out to Johnny and Neil who ran offie across the road from us. You then buy friends.

They never believe. Oh, they'd come over to our parties. They were great. And they never believed I was famous. I invited them to a premiere one time when I did a movie with Will Smith. And I was like, Johnny and Neil, I'd love for you to come. I've got a premiere. Do you want to come?

And they were like, you? And I was like, yeah, I'm like, in the movie. And I'm like, yeah, I'm in the movie. I showed them the invite. And I was like, that's me. That's my face. They're like, it's not you, that's Will Smith. I'm like, that's Will Smith.

But next to Will Smith, that's me. And they wouldn't believe me. And I was like, just come to the premiere and see for yourself. They didn't come. But anyways, they know now. They know now that I work in the movies. And sometimes we go back and visit, just to say hi. I love that.

Yeah, it's lovely. You spend some time in UK still, don't you? In London. I'm here a lot, actually, because things shoot here so often. That's nice. And so I know it's perfect. So I end up back here and then you're, like here for a long stretch, you know, when we did Barbie, I was back for like a year.

Oh, did you show? Yeah, shot that whole thing here. I mean, we did some, we did a couple weeks on location in California in L.A. Oh yeah, the rollerblading stuff. The rollerblading and all that. Hard to, hard to mimic that in the old common. But, yeah, and then Wuthering Heights we shot here. Where did you shoot Wuthering Heights?

At Lestrie, Sky Elstree Studios. And then we went up for the location stuff to the Moors in Yorkshire. I mean, it was so beautiful. It made it look different, almost more dystopian. What, the sets? Yeah. Yeah, it was like Emerald, our director, Emerald Fennell, wanted it to feel like an old, like a 50s melodrama, like a stage movie.

Like, she wanted it to feel like you were on stages. Like on a set. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like a slightly surreal world, slightly heightened, more heightened when you go to Thrush Cross Grange. Yeah.

But still heightened at weathering heights in a different way. And then, of course, location, we were like, well, have to go to Yorkshire. That's where the book takes place. We had emrolled here. Did you? Yeah. Years ago.

Oh my gosh, she told me. She said it was a lovely. She's fab. I know. She's amazing. Well, the reason, do you know, she's actually in Barbie as well. She's the midge, the pregnant Barbie, because when we were doing promising young woman, so we've produced all three of her films and the first one was

promising young woman. And she was like seven months pregnant when we started that job. So she was like, had the baby right after we rap sort of thing. So, I mean, she's superhuman. But then when she was winning her Oscar for that screenplay, she was pregnant again. And I remember Greta being like, it's like she's always pregnant. And then when we were like, we, she, Greta was like, I've got an idea. Let's ask Emerald to be the permanently pregnant Barbie and Barbie because of that.

And, you know, they, you know, like love each other and so Emerald. And we were shooting saltburn right as we wrapped Barbie. And so my first AD who was Andy, our first AD or Mothering 2, would be calling me being like, we've got to do tech checks and you've got Emerald coming in to be this pregnant Barbie. Like this is, we need to be pregnant, soap, and I was like, I know both are important, both are important, but probably soapburn is more important for her. Margot, you've had a few gorgeous leading men. I've been quite lucky at the time. You know what?

The thing that I really appreciated about this interpretation of Wuthering Heights was the set. sex that they introduced really early on. No. They don't know so much as old. I'm reading it at the moment because I wanted. I'd never read it. Me either. Like I, and it's fantastic.

It's, that Emily, she's talented that Emily. Yeah. Who knew? I know. I know. She's, but don't you think it's like,

I can't believe that book was written in that time, like in the 1800s. They would have been shocked, but it's also just the structure of it's so interesting. And yeah, and she was, 27 and she wrote it and she was dead by the time she was 30 yeah do you become best friends with all

your lovers on screen I kind of become really good friends with yeah everyone I work with like you spend so much time together like day and day out and you're all it's like you're at this summer camp and you're all I don't know you all become friends not not always not everyone but kind of everyone and especially on this job too like it was such a good gang that yeah You just do. It's sad when a job. But I also think that's probably due to how you want your sets to... Yes.

Be, because, you know, everyone that talks about Margot Robbie says, what a laugh you are, how talented and what a great person you are to work with and all of this, right? But you're creating this environment, right? Because you're the producer. Yeah. And you're heavily involved. So do you feel like you are a leader on those sets that you are producing and starring in? Yeah.

And I just don't agree that you have to all be tormented in order to make good art. I think there's like a weird misconception that if it's not this tortured experience, nothing great's going to come out of it. And I've been on sets that feel very tense and not fun. And there's a lot of that tortured artist vibe happening. And the film wasn't that good. And then I've been on sets that are an absolute delight, joyful every day and the film is excellent.

So it's like, why not just all have a good time? I don't think people need to be miserable to make good art. Do you think you learned that from kind of more negative experiences or did you learn from somebody that you felt like, I like how they like lead a gang or do you think it's from your family? I don't know. I don't know. I think I just like, you know, I've been working for a really long,

I mean, I've been doing this full time since I was 17 on neighbours. Is that a happy ship? Oh, the best. I had the best. And look, sure, I'm sure. I'm sure some people didn't enjoy their time on neighbours, but I had the best time ever, and everyone I worked with seemed to be a lot of the best time.

No, Madge was not with us at that point. But Harold. Harold was. Yeah. Tody, Dr. Carl, the whole gang. No, I had the best time ever. But, you know, I quickly recognize that I was always going to be spending the majority of my life on set, and I don't want the majority of my life to be unhappy.

I want to be happy and have a great time. and do what I love. And if I can do it all at the same, you know, at the same time. Does the that thing drive you mad? You know, you've got to get the hair right and the makeup. What are you making, by the way? Oh, yeah. It does smell good, Mom.

Oh, yeah. It does smell very excited. Yeah, I've been squeezing into these dresses. No, yeah, God. No, you can let it all out today, Margot. Yeah, yeah. No, I wore a comfy outfit. This is very fabulous.

Is it Chanel? It is Chanel. Oh, my God. I just love you're in a little loungy Chanel. And it's so comfortable. Will you keep that one? Will you keep that one? No, I have to give everything back.

Why? It looks so nice for you. Every time you wear something, you have to give it back. Don't know. Chanel are good to me. They do, they send me a lot of bags and whatnot. Are you wearing Chanel tomorrow? I am not wearing Chanel tomorrow.

Do you mean to the premiere? Yeah. So, wait, premiere's not tomorrow. No, some few days, yeah. But no, I am wearing. I'm wearing. I can never say her last name. Do you know this really cool designer?

Delara DiFungalore. Is she the one that won the British Fashion Awards? I think she did. Yes, and she did that incredible, like, stained cherry outfit. She is like an artist. Anyways, she's made me a dress made out of hair. Oh, wow, of course. And it's so, I'm hoping fake hair.

I'm hoping it's not real person hair, but it's, you know, it was fitting for the movie. So at the start of, did you see the movie? Yes, yeah, yes. Yes, and we loved it. I've not got over it yet. Oh, no, it's quite, it's. quite something um we and alice are just looking at yourself and like this is this is just what we needed on a Friday morning thank you so much you need I really enjoyed it I know me too I love it I think

people are going to just have a good time anyways do you remember the this the opening credits and it's it's the hair yeah it's kind of yeah it's kind of so that's actually my hair that then they replicated and did this stop like emerald was we were on the street in soho and she was like I need some of your hair and I was like all right And I just ripped it out and, like, gave her a little bit of hair. And she was like, well, what am I going to do with this? I was like, you just asked for it. And she was like, well, not now.

I have to walk through Soho with just clutching your hair. How much did you put it out? Like five strands or something, not too much. Anyways, so she put it in her pocket and then went and worked at this stop animation and they kind of replicated it and the opening, yeah, that Wuthering Heights thing is with my hair. I think that's what. And so we're tying it in with the dress. But that's what I found so interesting.

I think we, everyone, I didn't know what to expect. We've seen the poster. It looks very, you know, it's passionate. It's you too looking into each other's eyes. We've heard some of the music by Charlie. And then that opening shot of, I don't want to give anything away. I know. It's crazy opening, though.

It's fantastic. And I was like, oh. Okay. Yeah. Okay, this is the way we're going. Yeah. It's a bit of a tone setter. It's a bit of like a shock to the system.

It's like buckle up. Buckle up. This is the movie you're in. But I really, I was excited. by that. Yeah. It was a fantastic. I know and Charlie's song to it is like,

it was fantastic. It kind of gets your blood pumping in a way. Yeah, I've got goosebumps. Yeah. It's so, it's so unexpected. And I just, I think she's done something really amazing

with her album and all the music she's put into the movie. But that song in particular, I, because I was like, oh, what are we going to open with? And use temp music and stuff. And then when she came,

like, when she sent us that, the John Kale voice, and I was like, throbbing. It was literally throbbing. It was perfect and unexpected. I'm going to give you something to eat because I think it must be starving. Thank you.

Yeah. And then the score, Anthony Willis, who's just incredible. Jesse, you take charge of this. His score is quite classical. You know, it's like a proper movie score, movie score. So blending, actually blending it all together with a fun challenge. No, go on. Is this the ASMR part of the show where everyone's like, you know.

No, that's when you start. slopping salmon in your mouth, babe. Well, speaking of fish, there's a very visceral shot in the... There is indeed. Was that your idea? Emerald.

Emerald. Is she a filthy bitch? Peneral. She obviously is, and I love it. She's drilled to be referred to as such, to be honest. She tested probably 50 fish before we shot that.

She wanted the exact right consistency with the jelly. Thank you. Do you like fennel? I love fennel. This is delicious, Mom. Is it? This is a good.

Candied orange or whatever, delicious. Tell us, what is it? It's salmon with, right, so it's salmon. I made citrus vodka. Mm. Because I mean, you know, yeah. A bit of reputation to have been gone. Yeah.

So it's citrus vodka and Clementine's and orange juice and honey. And that's, you, and then you put it on the top with dill. So I hope it does taste. It's really good, Mom. Is it? Yeah. That is phenomenal. I may do this for sure.

I'm a breakfast dinner on Friday. So you're a good cook too, Jess? Yeah, she's better than me, I think. Really? I'm not, I just, I'm invested in eating. I love, I'm very invested in eating, but I'm a terrible cook. Really? Can you tell us about a memorable dish from your childhood?

And like, who was around the dinner table? I mean, what were you eating. I've got a lot of siblings. And my mum is a terrible cook, and she won't mind me saying that because she's aware. And I'm a terrible cook, and we both just know that this is a terrible cook. our shortcoming in life. So no, no one was ever like, oh, mum, please make that. Right.

But very simple food, pretty much everything was accompanied by mashed potato. So it was either, you know, bangers and mash, rissoles and mash. Spaghetti bolanays, too. With man? No, no, didn't double up on the carbs there. Did you like your mum's spaghetti balanets? I just love spaghetti bolognaise. I love, I love anyone's spaghetti bolognais.

And I love it when people make you spaghetti bolognais, because everyone does. are different and it's kind of like a yeah it's like a little personal thing they're sharing with you but my husband is a phenomenal cook like I think he could be a chef if he wanted to he's so good so it's yeah we're like a perfect match

I love to eat and love to marry to him do you know what I didn't know he was a good cook until after we got married how long you lived together what were you eating yeah but we were not this was a sharehouse with seven people crammed into a four bedroom sharehouse and clapham so The kitchen was not used for cooking. The kitchen was used for body shots and whatnot. So I didn't even know he was a good cook.

And then we were married and, you know, finally lived. Our roommates were finally like, we shouldn't all live together. It's weird now that you guys married. You got married and then you stayed on the poucher. We got married quite quickly. And then we kept living with our roommates. Not in Clapman. We moved to Shepherds' bush.

And then, yeah, then our roommates were like, it's kind of weird that you're still living with roommates when you're married and we're like it doesn't feel weird and they're like yeah you guys should try living on your own we're like okay and then we went and lived on our own and that's when you started cooking yeah then you started cooking and my god he's

really good at it um what's what's the dish that like you you would if we were coming over to yours you'd be like wow make that I think a fun one for guests is when he makes like this like um like lamb kebabs because it's like you get your hands into it and he's like he cooks it on

the big green egg and then he makes like different chili jams and then it's like all the accompaniments in the dish. Oh, wow. He does a pitter in like bread in the gosny and he's got all the kid. Oh, I love a gosny. He loves the kid. At least he knows how to use his egg. He absolutely does. Oh, you know, he'll crawl into bed at like 3 a.m. sometimes and I'll smell like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, you've been with the egg, haven't you? I'm like, what are you doing down there? So, some brisket, 16 hour brisket on the way. Oh, God, that's so attractive. I know. I love it. He gets up in the night. You can close. You can close. You can smoke a briskey alone.

Yeah, Mom, that's the thing. This might revolutionise the show. But my husband, God love him. He's cute. He's a lovely, great dad. He's shit on a barbecue and he thinks he's good. Oh, oh no. No, it's a shame.

He thinks he's quite good. Should you gently? No, no, don't worry, I do, Margot. Get a little, fucking class. No, I mean, I just go, let me do it. But bless him. But yeah, I think the egg is very hard to master. So respect.

Oh, no, no. You've got to have a lot of patience. This is my problem. This is why I can't cook. I've got no patience. Really? I just try and short cut it and then something lights on fire.

But you know what's been really good for me because I am also really impatient. And sour dough has been like my yoga. I don't love making it, but it does something to me where I know it's very few. Yeah. Yeah, I've never found that Zen space in the kitchen. Fair enough.

Fair enough. I'd like to, though. So, mum wasn't a great cook. Mum was not a great cook. Who was around the dinner table? I've got two brothers and a sister, so us four, and mum. And, no, she wasn't a great cook. And she was like, you know, a single working mum with four kids, so quite busy.

So it was just kind of like, she was a physiotherapist. Wow. Wow. And she worked at special schools with kids with disabilities. She's an angel. I want to talk about your aunt. Okay. Is it Aunt, Aunt Mezzi?

Mezzi? Yeah. How do you know Mezzi? Well, I don't know it. Oh, I don't know Mezzy. I'd love to know Mez. Oh, Mez's a great time. Oh, Mez. Yeah, no.

Mez is a hoot and you would love her. This is why I wanted to talk about it because I listened to you on a podcast and you talked about Aunt Mez. And it sounded so gorgeous. So I felt like, you know, this is about family and food. And I felt like Aunt Mezie needed a shout out. Mez should always get a shout out. J-Mel Mez. So my uncle J-Mo, my aunt Mez.

I have been, you know, married since they were teenagers, I think. Very Australian. like my accent is very very very neutralized I would say but now yes now but it's it's stronger before oh my god it was it was terrible I when I went on when I started on neighbors I did not sound anything like this when I started on neighbors they got me a dialect coach because my accent was too Australian for neighbors can you give us an old Margot accent I don't even know I don't even know have you like if you've taken it out of your mind like you can't ever go back there. The thing is I didn't know I had a strong accent. I

thought I sounded totally fine. So I can't even hear what it was. And my younger brother found like a video online not that long ago and he sent it to me. And it was with my, you know, it was while I was on neighbours. And I honestly, I was like, that's not how I spoke. That is terrible. And that's after the accent coaching. And I was like, yeah, I know, not. Like it's just so bad. I can't. I can't even. Yeah, it was really, really Australian. Aunt Mezzy, but Aunt Mezzy. Aunt Mezzy is just the best. Aunt Mezzie loves a rumming coke,

loves doing a crossword. Yeah, she can bake. I'd say the best cook... No, the best cook in my life really is Tom. But I would say, you know, meals are always the thing that brings everyone together, isn't it? What's his bag bowl? He spends two days making it.

Oh my God, he's that guy. He's a two-day spag bowl. It's unbelievable. Is it, are you just like, babe, I just wanted Spag Bowl two days ago? Yeah, no. Every time I'm like, I'll just eat it like this. Like, I honestly don't mind. It's going to taste brilliant to me.

He does a three-day fried rice. It really, really makes you wait with like this Korean short rib with it. Oh, it's unbelievable. What? And he does steak better than any restaurant I've ever been to. Steak, I'd say, is his. Okay, so what's his trick that he dance? I don't know.

You're useless, Margot. This is unhelpful. I mean, listen, I know he puts it in the oven and then does a reverse cereal in a skillet pan. In the oven? And he does oven first at the moment and then reverse here. And he puts like butter and rosemary and stuff in the pan, melted it and then pours it over the steak. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And it was banging. So if, okay, we weren't coming around to yours, but probably are because it sounds delicious. Yeah. Where are you eating? Where is some of your spots that you never go wrong? Like restaurants?

Yeah. Do you know what I love. I love Thai food and Chinese food. Me too. We have a lot of Thai and Chinese in Australia. I know Indians probably the bigger go-to here in England. Have you got a house in Australia too? No, but I want to live back there one day.

I just stay at my mum's house. As we do, we all come home in there. You do. I think it would be really, I have no reason to live in Australia, but I do think it would be a really big place to bring up kids. Yeah, just like going to the beach and everything's outdoors. Like I asked Tom, you know, when I hear about his childhood, I'm like, and what would you do after school?

He'd be like, oh, we'd just, you know, crowd around the radiator and play video games. I was like, that sounds so miserable. He said, yeah, it was just cold all the time. And I was like, oh, he's like, what would you do? And I'm like, we'd build a rope swing and jump into rivers. Like, it was just like. Wow. Jesse watched neighbors.

I watched neighbors. You got an idea of it then. So tell me, where? Where's the Chinese spot that you're going right now? Take us to. My go-to is Min-Jang. Where is it? I've never actually been there.

I just get it on Deliveroo. Oh, okay. Travels well. Do you know what's crazy about Deliveroo? What? It gets to your house so fast. In America, we've got something called postpans. Yeah.

But you're waiting like 70 minutes. Yeah. Here, sometimes I order like my Chinese and it's at the door seven minutes later. I'm like, how is that even possible? You know what I tried yesterday? Oh, no. I like a five. trend TikTok thing.

I did the viral um, dumpling lasagna. Babe, it's really good. A dumpling lasagna? Yeah, you make like the insides of a dumpling.

My kids are obsessed with soup dumplings and dumplings. Love soup. When my four year old is sad, I go, would you like me to do dumplings for dinner? And he goes, yeah, like that. Anyway, so I did, I did, um,

I mean, no, It'su do fabulous ones in the freezer. They're fabulous. But anyway, this, you get pork mince, you put some spring on. onions, ginger, garlic, soy, miram. And then you just layer with like Gioza or wonton wrappers on top.

And it's like that. And then you pour some water and then you steam it on the hob, babe, delicious. Everyone ate it. Heaven. So like, and it worked. Wow. Very exciting, very fun. All the kids ate it.

Maybe I could pull that off. You could pull it off. If I was to ever have a cooking show or cookbook or something, I always thought I'd call it. at Bogan's Delight and it would be all the Bogan things that I grew up eating which are very, very simple things to make. Even something like me can't go wrong and it's delicious. I was very much a Bogan growing up though I did not realize it at the time.

But we have classic Bogan things like in our house, well first of all, which is quite Bogan but also makes me think of home. We have five Cs which means at five o'clock you sit and have your like a little cheeseboard but it's not a fancy cheese board. I think that's quite chic. I know it sounds chic, but when you look at it, it's cool. We have like a bowl of nuts and bolts, which is just like an assortment of like,

a nuttrain in there, a curry. Mezzi makes it actually. Mezzi makes the best nuts and bolts. You've got like certain nuts, but mainly you've got cereal in there and like some dried, like Asian noodles and then like a curry sauce over it. Do you have anything like this here?

Hang on, hang on, it's not a dry, it's not a dry, like nibbley sort of thing. It's like Bombay myths. It's like Bombay nuts. All right, sure. Yeah. maybe that's it. So you have it, kids have it.

Oh yeah. I have it at five z's. So five zes is nuts and bolts. Five C's is nuts and bolts. Yeah. Before your dinner, your tea? Well, here's where we're going to fall out.

Okay. I'm Australian. Yeah. It's always, cheese is always before dinner. Cheese, like, I cannot have cheese after a meal. It's so,

it's like starting. So housewives again. That's very housewives of you. Yeah. Cheese board before. your meal. So what would be on your cheese board? What cheese? Well, if I'm back home, I'd have barbecue sackatars. Pardon? And just, yeah, it's like a, it's like a rice crack up. It's like, it's very vulgar. Barbecue, sacer tars and just classic, like just cheddar cheese

on that. And on top of that, I'd cut a cocktail onion in half and pop that on top. That would be my favorite. And this is what people have every evening. This is what we have at five. What time do you eat then? I don't know. Whenever. Whenever it's ready. And now in our house it often would be late because things were quite disorganized. But your mum was working. Yeah, exactly.

So it's like you making your own little snack before dinner. Yeah. But it's also like a family thing. You have a rum and Coke, Fisies and Muts and Bowl. When did you start all the rum of the Cokes? How old are you? And he started a 12. I love this.

My mum used to, in order to get us to sit. I don't know if I'd share this. She used to give us Kalura milk so that we'd do our homework. Oh my God, I love it. Jessie, this is where you're going wrong. No, I love this. Because we'd be running around like maniacs and not when pushing Kalora movement. She drunk you.

She was like, sit at the bench and do your homework. When do Australians? She's giving you white Russians. And I love white Russians. Probably why. There you go. When do Australians start to drink coffee, what age do you think? Coffee?

Well, I always drank tea. I can't live without a cup of tea. Oh, is this a bit of star anise in here? Oh, yes. Love. And she says she doesn't cook. I know. Well, do you know what I do do at Christmas time?

Jamie Oliver's recipe, Mouldwine recipe, which does have a little bit of star in it. So that's why I know what that is. Just a humble brag. You're on the cocktails then. That's your bit. Cheeseboard and cocktails, that's what I do. I think that's a really vital. I think it's right.

It is. To a host. Absolutely. And your best cocktail? I mean, I do make a really good mild wine because I just follow Jamie's recipe and I don't make any shortcuts. Okay.

I don't mess that up. I'm pretty, do you know what? I made a martini for my friend the other day. I love a martini. Me too. How do you take yours? I do my dirty with gin. Yeah, how dirty?

Not terribly dirty. Not filthy. Okay. Like Christina Aguilera at three hours in the dirty. But my friend has hers vodka and with a twist And I made it for the other day and she said it's the best martini she's ever had. Oh wow, congratulations.

And I was like, did you mean that? Because I'm really taking that to heart. And she's like, I meant that. And do you use your engine? Yeah. Yeah. Puppa. Why is it called Papa Salt?

Well, because we're traveling in Sri Lanka. Oh, wow. Why were you traveling there? Just why not? Just for holidays? Yeah, yeah. Okay, great. I'm going on Friday.

Oh, you're to Sri Lanka. Where are you going? Everywhere, I think. Starting off at Colombo. Dambula. Kandalana Kandy Yeah

Then troubling down to the goal So we're doing I hope you find your way To a place My favorite place Oh my boy Isn't it amazing Did you go to the cocktail bar

There? Smokin to every I don't remember I don't remember though We went everywhere there Hirikatia is the best And if you're like learning to surf Or you like to surf

But you don't surf like crazy ways I feel like I was Kelly Slate back I think you can get to wait for like five minutes I mean the paddling's a bit of a pain Because you're just paddling that I had somebody pushing me. What? No, I mean to get back.

They paid a guy. They paid someone to push him. Bloody hell. You don't need to go. What? It's a cheap. They retire. Oh, okay, says the fucking surface paradise.

Don't tell mini driver that. I'm a Jewish prince says you're lucky that I'm even gaining the water. I don't believe you've got someone pushing you out for the show. Isn't that the whole point of the experience to schlep out there? Okay, Lenny. Let's see you get on a board in Hiraketti or a hang of a... I will not be going on a Hiramquetty aboard, darling. I honestly think you.

you should. I honestly think I should do. They're gentle waves. And you catch them for a long time. So how'd you stand up on it? Easy. Just pop up. Yeah.

Pop on up. I'm a long time away from popping up anywhere, darling. A long time. You don't pop anymore? Don't pop. God, it's such a good place. It's so great. It was heaven being there.

It's the food gorgeous. Oh yeah. Great food. Well, there's this place called the doctor's house. Did you go to the doctor's house? No. So if you went like further down the beach, like 10 minutes, has this really cool.

A lot of expats hang out at this place called the doctor's house at least when we were there which was many years ago now but we were at the doctor's house and we ended up drinking with these Aussie guys

who are from the Gold Coast which is where I'm from and we're like oh yeah Gold Coast, Gold Coast Gold Coast blah blah blah and we're like what brings you guys are you here for surfing

they're like no we own this place this is our bar and we were like sick and then we it was New Year's Eve and they were like kick on with us come meet my dad

Papa Salt he's a real character everyone loves him and we were like of course and so we went and and spent the rest of New Year's Eve with them and Papa Salt. And Papa Salt is this like, he looks like Santa Claus on a, like on a summer

holiday, like Hawaiian shirt, white beard. And he's like a proper pirate. Like he's been shipwrecked three times. Like he's just full of stories, doesn't really have a set address, just kind of like pops from Ireland to Ireland, just living life. And we just had this great night and we like loved him. And then years later, we, you know, we made this gin. And then it came time to naming it. And we were like, oh, we were trying to come up. It's like getting a tattoo. Like, if you take it too seriously, it's kind of cringe. Have you got any tattoos?

Only silly ones, which is what I really believe in. And so if it's funny and it reminds you of something, then it's not cringe. And so we were like, it's called Papa Salt because it will always make us laugh. It'll make us think of that years in Sri Lanka. I don't, but Papa Salt has Papa Salt tattooed on here. Not Morgan. So he is, no, no, we should have a trade. Yet.

He'd probably say, do you know, I knew that girl. She came and drank him. She did drink quite a lot. She is he. She's fun. He can give me a run for my money. He can put it away. But he's from the Gold Coast too.

Has he tried the junior? Well, what happened? As soon as we decided to call it Papa Salt, we were like, we should let him know. Yeah. And one of our partners, because it's just five of us friends

that make Papa Salt. There's no company behind us or anything. It's just self-funded and we do it for fun. But kind of like, dad of the group, Charlie was like, there might be some like legal shit here that we should, you know, check on. Turns out there's not because it's a, it's a nickname. But I was like, yeah, but I still want to let him know.

And so we're like, how do we get in touch with the guy we got drunk with years ago in Sri Lanka at a beach bar? And our friend Caddy was on a surf trip at the time in Sri Lanka. And I called her. I was like, I bet she's at Herricketeba. And then I called her and I was like, are you at here? And she was like, this is perfect. I was like, can you go to a place?

because the doctor's house, she was like, oh, is there last Saturday night. And I was like, perfect, go back. Look for a guy that looks like Santa Claus on a summer holiday. And when you find him, if you find him, FaceTime us. And so we get this FaceTime from Caddy a few days later. And she's drunk with Papa Soul. And she's like, both of them on FaceTime. And they're like, and she's like, he's the best.

And we're like, I know, I know. Put him on. And we're like, Papa Soul, do you remember us? And he's like, oh, good-day. Yeah, of course I do. He's like, gillay, Margo. We're both from the Goldie, blah. And we're like, we made a gym.

in and we want to name it after you. We want to name it, Papa Salt. Are you cool with that? And he was like, yeah, cool, that's great. Like, not phased at all, like, as if he gets that phone call once a week. He's like, yeah, sure, whatever. He's like, I've got, and we're like, is there anything that, you know, you want to go over or any questions? You want to have time to think about it, blah, blah, blah.

He's like, no, no, no. Oh, one question. One question. We're like, yeah, sure, sure. Like, oh, it's a bit where we need to get lawyers involved or a contract or something. He's like, can I make T-shirts? And we were like, yeah. Of course.

He's like, yeah, okay, cool. And we're like, anything else? He's like, no, that's it. And I was like, all right, sweet. Well, we'd like to do a lifetime supply of Papa Salt. And he was like, yeah, all right, I'm more of a rum drinker, but we're like, all right. And now he drinks Papa Salt. Like, we have to ship, we have to find out how to get like gallons of Papa Salt to wherever he,

like, last time we checked in, he was in Venwatu. We have to like figure out how to ship, like, illegally ship essentially. Where can you? Where can you buy it? Well, here in England. Yeah. Anywhere, really. Yeah.

And then... In LA? No, not in America yet. Just Australia and England, really. In Fiji. Wow, wow. Cool. Have you got another film project up and running?

About 10, probably. Well, we have a production company, so we've got a lot of things in development constantly. And you never know what's going to happen next. Oh, do you know, it's exciting, though. What? A play is coming out here in London soon. Which one? It's called 15.

36. Have you heard of it? No. Why is it being shown? So we've jumped on board to produce this too. And really it's more of a supportive producing role because it was already ready to go. What's it on? It's going to be at the Almeida. Oh, amazing. No, I have seen it advertised.

So your producers on that. First time Lucky Chap of Dumb Theatre production. Second time, actually. We did a off-Broadway show in America called Big Gay Jamboree. You know Titanic? That's playing here at the moment. loved it. It's meant for it?

So fab. So Marlon Mendel, who created that with her, the friend of hers, also wrote this thing called Big Agen. Yeah, Titanic started on Off Boardway, didn't it as well? So, okay, amazing. And so that's how that happened. But now, 1536, yeah, Ava Pickett wrote it, and I think she's just the best, honestly, I think she's the best new writer there is right now. And it's so good.

I think it's the best play I've ever read. It's about three women living in a village at the time that Ambelin, was beheaded. Oh wow. And it's kind of about like the effects, the ripple effect of that happening. So it's 15.30 when it's set. It's 15.36.

But it's so good. It's honestly, it's the best play I've ever read. Would you have liked to have been in it? Yeah. Could you be in it? Maybe if it goes to Broadway? I think I might be a little old for the characters.

I don't think I could. Babe, you just played a 17-year-old, so you're fine. No, Kathy's not 17 in our movies. How old is? Yeah, no, she's not. No, she's like. You look incredibly youthful. Thank you so much.

No, in our movie, Kathy, in Wuthering Heights, she's like mid-20s to early 30s. Okay. Because the movie kind of spans over like six years. Well, you got the kids part. Oh, we should talk about Owen, of course. We should. Did you?

So, I'm just wondering. The adolescence wasn't out when we started. Yeah, you must have been like, bad a thing. Like, when adolescence happened. It's just bizarre because, like, so often people say, like, oh, overnight sensation. And I've always been like, that's not the reality. No one's an overnight sensation. but it was an overnight sensation

like no one knew him we were working you know we were mixed of shooting just auditioned like casting because when he was in adolescence so I nudged Alice and I said it's the boy from adolescence isn't it and this sounds terrible but I was surprised

because I wondered if that was all he could do be and so that was the most uplifting thing because he was so Oh, God. It's so good. And so...

And Charlotte, who plays the young Kathy. She was in the Western production of Matilda. Not as Matilda, but she's... They're both so brilliant. And honestly, the movie wouldn't work if they weren't as good as they are. It makes you feel so connected with him and emotional about him. Yeah. And his love for Kathy from such an early age.

Can we talk about Martin Cloons as well? Martin Cloons. No one in America seems to know Martin Blues. And everyone, I'm hoping everyone here is going to be like, hi. He is astonishingly good. Yeah, exceptional. He is, my dear old papa, and also just the best man. Like, I just love him.

Have you ever met him? No. We've never had him on this. He has a hoot. I love Mr. Linton. Oh my God. Chazard. I know.

And he's got a tough role because, like, he's not the most exciting character. He's the solid, kind one. They're so kind. It's funny. I had a, a bachelorette for Kathy. I didn't have it. My friends threw a bachelor at for Kathy, the character, which sounds ridiculous, I know, but it was really fun.

Did you have Willie Straws? We had all the things you'd see at a bachelorette, yeah. Do you have a shipper? Did Jacob come and be a stripper? That would have been fab. No, Jesse. Jacob did not come as a stripper, but we did, we did have strippers. Hey!

And they were amazing. What theme was it? They did classic magic. Classic. Love that. Love that. Dahlie, I'm thinking of my 75th. Oh, yeah, Lenny.

You may not make it to your 76. Do you know what? If they'd themed it, it wouldn't have been as sexy. It would be funny. But I remember my real Hendo, back when I was getting married back in the day, I love Harry Potter. And my friend's got a stripper and made him do Harry Potter. Oh, my God.

That sounds a bit weird. That's a whole of wrong. It was so funny and not sexy. And like this guy's like, in a robe with the glasses and the scar and he's like you know all the innuendo that you can imagine and it was very very funny

but I mean we're all so drunk it really didn't matter to be honest but yeah no when they did the classic magic mic performance it was like wow that's that's impressive I want to go to one of your parties I mean we all know about this 24 hour 24th birthday party we ended at

it ended at mosquito bar that I mentioned earlier of course where else do you go at our have you ever tried to do Do you want, how old are you now? I'm 35. Have you ever tried to do a 36, uh, 35, will you do a 36 hour one? God, I'd love the challenge. We'd quite be quite taxing.

75 hour party. You'd be a lot of drugs, Lenny. So many drugs would be required. No, I did my 24 hour party with no drugs. I was drunk, obviously, just booze. And what, like, snacks? I guess so. I don't remember the snacks.

Chit. I think we stopped at five guys at some point to get a burger, a bit of stamina. I wanted to know, you know, you know, you. You're a producer, you're acting in this. Is it ever hard to be, wear all of those hats when you're, are there any kind of limits where you're like, you know what, I need to focus on being Kathy right now. I can't think about like the DOP and like this.

Or is it always, is it all kind of all encompassing all the time? Or do you have to be strict with how you share your time? I don't find it hard to compartmentalise, but I'm conscious that the director needs to see me as their actor. I don't think as a director you want your actor who's, you want your actor completely thinking about their character, not about overtime and swapping locations and penalty payments. Doesn't your husband think about that, Matt, if he's producers.

My producing partner, Josie is the lead producer in all of Emerald's films, so Tom wasn't on set for most of this film. But yeah, Josie's running the ship. I don't need to be running the ship. And we kind of orchestrate things so that I can step back about two weeks before the shoot. And I keep in, like, I'm conscious of everything that's happening and I check in, like, in lunch break and after work and all that kind of stuff, cost reports and blah, all that stuff. But no decision is going to be held up because I'm on set, for example. Like, everything's going to keep moving without, you know, without me being like, yes, I agree or don't agree or whatever like that.

When you did I, Tonya, did you train? I did a lot of training, but I couldn't start training until I'd finished. I did a film called Goodbye Christopher Robin right beforehand. And when you're contracted to a film, you sign a contract saying I won't partake in any dangerous activities or activities that could get me injured and it becomes a whole insurance thing. So I had to keep waiting until I, as soon as I rapped, then I was like five days a week. Had you always skated before? Not really.

I was perfect. Yeah. Well, her balance is probably good. A lot of rollerblading as a kid. Like, I'm the kid of the 90s, so lots of rollerblading. I think that helped. Yeah. I did a bit ice skating when I got to America.

I have a really burning question. I've been dying to ask you. Please explain a prime mortgage. Listen, do you have a bathtub I can jump in? How to short loans? I can get really, no, I mean, those lines were like as much gibberish to me. It's like, I remember trying to make sense of it all. I was like, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Because I still didn't understand. No, me either. Good. Okay. Charles Randolph, who wrote that script, is an exceptionally bright man. And as much as I was like, Charles, explain it to me one more time. I was like, you know what? I'm just going to say the lines and you tell me if it's reading right.

Okay. When are you going to direct? Because it feels like the next step. I don't know. I really want to. I really, really want to. To be honest, producing takes up all of my time. It's not acting that takes up my time.

Acting takes up a chunk of time. But then you're like, I'm done with the job. producing is 24-7 every day of the year it doesn't stop and it hasn't you know we've been running the company for 11 years now so it's like for the last 11 years I've never not been actively producing so good for you no I know it's been great it's been great it's brilliant but it's um yeah I need I need to figure out how to step away from that more so that I can make space for trying to do you think you'd be able to do like a yentel a barbara where you like produce oh my gosh direct and No, I would never. I don't know how. I've spoken to a lot of, like, actor directors and being like, how do you do both? It just sounds inefficient. Like, to do a take and then go back to the monitors, watch the take, make the adjustments and go back instead of finishing, finishing. I'm like, yeah, just you got to keep, you got to jump straight back into it. So I don't know how I could do it and not be like, this is not efficient. I don't like a not efficient set. I like, I need a set to be like, just because,

I mean, one silly thing to do, but once you know your day cost, if you divide that by the minute, if you, sometimes I think I'm like, if actors only new, like when an actor takes more than two minutes to come serve, an actor makes you wait for 20 minutes, I'm like, you just wasted 60 grand. Okay, so for dessert, I've made a Middle Eastern eaten mess. Because I think Australians like meringue. Yeah, we have clover. We pretend it's Australian. It's actually not Australian, but we have a little bit. it like, are you joking? Absolutely. What makes it Middle Eastern?

It's got pomegranate. Yes. And rose pomegranate molasses. And sumac. Oh my God. This is incredible. Do you always eat like this? Well, we do for the pod.

But mum's always been a really, like, she's always made an effort. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I like the pomegranate. Mmm, it's really nice. It's like a Turkish july eaten mess. Oh, it's so good. So last supper, Margot Robbie, let's go. It's funny, I always ask this meal.

I call it death row meal, but last supper is nicer. Changes often. But today, if I had to have my last supper today, I've got banging cheese board to start. Of course, I know. I'm religious in this country, but for us, that is part of the course. With what says things, isn't it? Not lots and boxes.

Not some bolts. Not some bolts. No, not a Bogan cheeseboard I would go like full European cheeseboard I want like the triple cream Bree I want twins paste I want some like good crackers

I want a blue cheese Of course I want a cheddar in there as well A gruea or something fancy And like a really good white burgundy with that I'm even red No white burgundy Just I love a white burgundy Main

I'm thinking I'm tempted to go with my husband's spag ball or I'm going to go full Christmas dinner, like all the things. Well, Aussie Christmas dinner. So is that a Barbie on the deck? Well, you do often have prawns, but the main meal is ham.

So a ham at Christmas time is integral. There is no Australian Christmas lunch or dinner. Turkey is like, sure, maybe if it's there. But you're not really thinking about the turkey. You're thinking about the ham. And the ham is cold. It's a cold ham? No, it's no.

the funny thing is it's actually a cooked ham. Yeah. Smoked ham, but then you put it in the oven essentially just to heat it up. Okay. And then you serve it hot with with cranberry jelly. But to tell you a little segue side story for a second here, hit me. I never realized it was a pre-cooked ham. I always thought when I was putting it in the oven or when whoever was putting in the oven for like, you know, three hoursish, that that was cooking in a ham. No, that's just heating the ham. And it's a big piece of meat to heat. So my first Christmas over here in England with Tom's family, his whole family, I was like, I'll do the ham everyone. Uh-oh. I got it. And everyone's like, oh, okay, right. Anyways, so I went to the butcher and I was like, can I get a leg of ham please? And he's like, what do you

mean? And I was like, a leg of ham. And he's like, like, gammon. And I was like, sure, gammon, sure. Gammon means pork means ham. Yeah, sure, gammon. So he gives me a giant, like 12 pound thing of gammon. and I was like, all right. So I take this. I go to Christmas with his entire family. That really isn't too difficult. We're at his brother's house.

So they've hired and they rented an oven and put it in the shed out of the back because there's not enough space. Obviously the kitchen's tiny and the oven was tiny. And so I was like, where can I put this ham? This gammon. Out in the shed. I was like, all right, right. And I was like, I only need three hours.

I got there three hours early. You put in the shed. Put in the oven. Took it out after three hours. We all sat down for three hours. for a ham, a completely raw piece of gammon. It was probably another, at least three times. It's not cooked at all.

It was raw. Just a raw piece of pig, essentially. Did your husband not get involved as somebody who likes to smoke his meat? No, I know. He wasn't, I don't know, he wasn't really. I think he was just letting me have this moment. He's like, you do, you, hon. And then we all sat down and, I remember watching his grandma. He's a raw pig, essentially, going toward her mouth. and I'm like, smack the fork.

I was like, no! And I like, smacked it out. I'm back to kill me. I know. I was like, I'm back to kill Granny Miller. Smack to have her head. And I was like, no one eat that. I'll be back.

And I was like, shit, shit. Put it back in the oven. And I was like, oh, I don't know. Anyways, Christmas dinner went on. It was fine. We had other things to eat. But like. And we forgot about the gammon.

And we all got drunk. Yeah. You know, it's England and Christmas. Perfect. And then at midnight, we're off our tits and suddenly we're like, it's not like something's on fire. Oh, no. I've forgotten.

That Gavin's been in the back shed for nine hours. And was it cooked? It was on fire, to be fair. But once we put out the fire, it was delicious. Underneath heaven. Okay, good. Absolutely heaven. Delicious.

We did at midnight. It was great. The Robbie method. Yeah, yeah. Light it on fire. But yeah, now I know it needs to be a smoked ham. Oh my God, that's brilliant. Okay, so we're going maybe Christmas minus your ham.

Cheese board, Christmas with the smoked ham. Yeah. Mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes? Oh, absolutely. Is that because of your, because your mom may not mind you. You know, I think we're the only country that really hasn't roast potatoes the way we do them. In America, they have mashed potatoes with their Thanksgiving new.

I think they roast here, it's like you have to have roast potatoes to have it be a gross. Yeah, I get it. It's a big thing, you guys. It's not like that all over the world. They'll have sauteed, but not a roast potato. I think a roast potato is all of it. Dof and what? Yeah.

Although we don't really call it Dofantua. That's kind of like a here thing. Grattan? I don't know. I don't know. The Bogan and me, we just called it potato bake. Potato. I like that.

How did you get the word Bogan? Where does it come from? I don't know. Do you know what Bogan Narchos is? No. So this is, by the way, I know I say it weird. You say nachos. say nachos and I don't know why.

Oh, we talked about nachos? Not nachos. Exactly. What do you call it? Narchis. And I don't even think all Australians do that. Okay. But what I always thought growing up, what I thought nachos was, was a packet of Doritos.

No, first you get the alfoil. Do you call it alfoyle here or do you call it aluminum foil? We call it just foil. Foil. Timfoil. Tin foil. Yeah. Tin foil.

We call it alfoil. You put that down on a baking tray. Packeted Doritos. Yeah. Tena baked beans. Baked beans. Baked beans. Braided cheese.

Bajer cheese. Bajas. Bajas. It is delicious. Australians love an abbreviation, don't they? What did you say? Alfoil. Aluminant aluminium foil.

What do you call? Oh no, it wasn't an abbreviate. Ston House. Stonis. Stonies. Yeah. The ambor for the ambulance. Ambers.

Just an oh on the end of anything. I love it. Did you love Colin from accounts? I haven't watched it. Oh, no. I know. But I know it's brilliant. Oh, babe.

Go on, take my passport off. Very, very Australian. You should watch that on the plane home. You'll be like, oh, my guy back to you. I know. I already know I love it. Oh, so good. Do you know what very British show I love?

Gavin and Stacey. Oh, it's gorgeous. It's really gorgeous. Our equivalent is Kath and Kim. Did you ever see? I love Kevin and Kim. I've watched that. But Gavin and Stacey,

just the best show ever. Just makes me so happy. Did you see the Christmas bash? Of course I did. Oh, it's gorgeous. Watch it twice. We'd miss it for the world. Absolutely love it.

I, um, do you know, I had a dinner not that long ago and I was sat next to Bet Middlove, which was a big deal. Oh my God. Shut up. I know. She's royalty. Was she nice? Unbelievable.

Okay. So, fine. So amazing. Also, like, the first wives club is very important. is a film so I was like I can't believe this is happening and you know hocus pocus and every yeah yeah um but I was telling her about Gavin and Stacy she was kind of like being like what should I look and I was like honestly Gavin and Stacy is like one of the best they said she watched you do we know I sent her the whole DVD package afterwards and she she was like wrote me an email being like don't worry

I already started watching it after I heard you talk about it and I was like I'll watch the rest on the DVDs now but I yeah she's very sweet oh I she's on my she's on my top three. It's her, Larry David and Barber Shrizen. So yeah. Great list. Thank you. I hope that happens. Yeah, thank you. Um, okay. So how are we finishing off this meal? Oh, okay. Have you got a sweet tooth? Do you like ice cream? Lennie, read my mind. I was literally about to say, I'm an ice cream fiend. I eat so much ice cream. Who are you eating? Because the only thing my mum could really threaten me with violence wouldn't work on me, but she threatened me to not have ice cream. I'd be like, I'm your slave. I'll do whatever I need.

First flavor you'd buy. There is a place in America called Salt and Straw. I know. Oh yeah, it's good. Yeah. Did you have the Seasolkaron and ice cream? Yeah, because Hannah made me have it.

Okay, is it the best? That in a waffle cone. Oh, God. Done, done. That's it for me. Before we let you go, I don't want to because you are... I know, this is so lovely. I'm just so lovely. You're still forever.

You are just as fabulous as everyone says you are. A nostalgic taste that can transport you back somewhere. Mashed potato. Really? Yeah. I'm speaking about it a lot. When you're, as you said, off your tits, do you sing karaoke? Oh, I love a bit of karaoke.

Okay, I do too, but she hates it. Do you know, I used to, I don't like it if I'm not with friends. Like, I wouldn't do karaoke if there's, like, people there that I don't know. Like, I'm not going to get out and get up and belt it out in front of strangers. So which song? Share, believe. Oh, that's her son-in-law. Is it?

And I have the auto-tune. I do a bit of share. do the shit, I'm like, you, like I get into the face. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, I was about to jump in and make the mistake of actually reenacting. No, no, I thought myself just in the nick of tight. It's a very euphoric song and it's, it, you don't realize it until you're in that first chorus and then everyone's sing it and then they feel so good. It's incredible. And everyone feels inclined to jump in. Yeah, it's a stunning, stunning song. Um, Margo Robby, thank you so much for doing this. You are so busy. You are so fabulous. And, um, never

They're too busy for this. This was absolutely amazing. You are so sweet. And such a good meal, Lenny. Yeah, it was delicious. That was unreal. Good luck with the film. Thank you.

And come again whenever you need. Can I just pop over for dinner tonight? Yeah, absolutely. I love that. We've got to infernoes afterwards. No, thank you. No, thank you. I'm good.

I'm good. Margot Robbie may be even better than I could have possibly imagine that she could be. She's just one of the nicest people, just a superstar. I was like desperate for her to ask for my number. It didn't happen. And I believe that we'll hang out sometime in the future.

Do you? Loved her. I want to be her best friend. I want to go surfing with her in Sri Lanka and make friends with Papa Salt. But you want to be one of the bachelorette. I want it all. I want to go and have a Chinese with her. Yeah.

She's good fun. She's just fab and so talented. Like Lucky Chap, her production company, the stuff they bring out, whether it's Itonia, saltburn, Wuthering Heights. I mean, she's Barbie. Like she's amazing and she's just like doing her thing and being a great actress and a lovely human. Beautiful. Oh, Captain looking at her.

She's perfection. Perfect skin. Perfect teeth. They were all their own as well. I know. All her own teeth too. All their own teeth. Perfect.

Anyway, Margo Robbie, you're fabulous. We love you. Wuthering Heights is out this Friday the 13th of February. And it's going to weather all your heights. And the production that she was talking about at the end of the end of, Almeida 1536 is coming out, I think, at the beginning of May, so get your ticket. I can't wait to see what she's in next. Mum, that salmon was so delicious.

Was it? Was it easy? Or a bit of a fat? No. I did it this morning. Delicious, mum. Absolutely delicious. Thank you.

Really great recipe. Who's the chef? So it's by Emily Scott. Emily Scott. Yeah. Can I look up more of your recipes, girl? Yeah. Thank you for listening.

Thank you for watching. And we'll see you next week.