We have a confession: interviewing celebrities on the telephone can sometimes be really really dull. You can’t get the banter going, and having the celebrity’s undivided attention is totally out of your control. So it’s fair to say that GLAMOUR’s Leanne Bayley didn’t have huge expectations when she recently dialled Margot Robbie for a phone chat on a Saturday afternoon. Was the Suicide Squad star a disappointment? Hell no. Was she chatty, amazing and totally cool? 100 percent YES.

Hi Margot, first off – I’m very jealous of you because you got to hang out with a lot of male models on the deep euphoria Calvin Klein advertising campaign shoot. Did you have any pre-shoot nerves?

Only a little bit in the sense that photoshoots aren’t really my forte, I’ve never done modelling, I feel at home on a film set. I’m just so familiar with sets and how they work that when we did the video campaign for the deep euphoria shoot I felt much more at home than just the photoshoot aspect of it. Photoshoots kind of make me nervous but the video side of it I didn’t feel nervous. We had Francis Lawrence directing it so I knew that we’d be talking in the same way.

I love that the deep euphoria advertising campaign is based on the morning after the night before – what’s the wildest night you’ve ever been on in real life?

Good question. I’ve had some wild ones. We did talk about that a lot, the nights that keep going until the sun comes up and then still a group of you in a hotel room or like apartment and you’re still drinking and you’re still chatting. I love that so much, I love those kind of nights that blend into the next morning.

We had a pretty big night after the Suicide Squad press. It was Cara’s birthday and she had this massive party at Suki’s house and it was just an outrageous party. But it was sweet too. Yeah, the party was fun but everyone’s favourite bit was when the sun’s coming up and you’ve got your closest friends, the squad there chatting and the sun’s coming up and everyone knows they should go home and shower and stuff but no one wants to leave each other because, it’s just good times all the time – sitting on a roof top until like midday.

The deep euphoria scent is all about euphoria… what gives you a euphoric feeling in real life?

Sky diving is so fun. That’s jumping outside of your comfort zone, but so is diving. I don’t know if you dive but to me that’s the most euphoric feeling in the world, just being under water and just diving with sharks and things like that and realising that you’re a tiny spec in this world and that the ocean is so not your territory. It’s crazy under there, but those are the euphoric moments in life.

People are fascinated by your ever-so normal life in Clapham – we love that you have roommates. What makes you a great housemate and what makes you a not so great of a housemate?

Well, I love living with housemates. Everyone’s like, ‘That’s so weird!’ and I’m like, ‘I’m 26, is it really that weird?’ People are starting to move out with boyfriends and stuff but now I’m in that stage in my life when I’m like ‘oh yeah, we should move in on our own’, but for now, that’s what all my friends do so it would be weird to live in like a big mansion on my own. I mean, I have no desire to live like that, so it’s good.

What makes me a good housemate? I’m pretty tidy, I like to keep things clean – I do the washing up and all that. What makes me a bad housemate? I should ask my housemates what they hate about me. Do you know what makes me a bad housemate! I always have sixteen suitcases yet to be unpacked just sitting in the hallway and in my room and everyone’s like ‘can’t you just unpack!?’ and I’m like ‘I can’t! I’ve got to go again.’ And I always buy like such useless things – I love when I see something like a crystal growing kit I’m like “oh I have to have that” or like a hammer kit or my tattoo gun and it takes up so much space so everyone’s like can we get rid of all this useless shit in our house and I’m like ‘no way’.

You and Cara Delevingne were giving us major squad goals recently. Do you think you’ve made a friend for life?

Totally – she is a rare gem in this world and I’ve just never met anyone like her. She is the most genuine person you can ever meet and there’s nothing calculated about that girl. She’s like a little comet just blasting her way through this world.

We think of you as a resident Brit these days, but is there one thing you’ll never get?

Black pudding – I keep trying but I can’t get my head around it. At my first bite I was like “yum” and then someone said it’s dried blood and I was like ‘I can’t’. Once I knew, I couldn’t get past it. I tried but I can’t.

We reckon Harley Quinn will be a big trend for Halloween this year – have you thought about you’d dress up as for this Halloween?

I was actually talking about this the other day, I don’t know yet because I don’t know if I’m going to be able to celebrate. I don’t know where I’m going to be, whether I’m flying or I’m going to be at work or whatever it is. I’m not even going to get my hopes up for Halloween because I take dressing up very very seriously. If I’m going to dress up, I go all out so unless I’m going to have an actual night on Halloween, I’m not going to start plotting my costume and get let down.

 

2017 is going to be exciting for you – and I, Tonya is going to be huge – have you started training as yet?

I can’t because I’m actually shooting another film right now so for insurance purposes, you can’t do any activities where you could potentially injure yourself. So I can’t start the ice skating training until I wrap – literally the day I wrap at the end of October I’m going to start training and I’m going to have to get right into it.

I’m really excited because I’m producing the film as well, for the first time I have all of these other concerns that I normally don’t think about when I’m just acting. Whereas now I’m so worried about getting injuries and ruining pushing shoot dates back, that’ll cost hundreds of thousands of dollars – it’s terrifying. So I’m really excited because I love acquiring a new skill for a role, it’s one of the biggest treats of acting, and on the producing side of it – if I get an injury I’m scared I’m going to ruin everything so I’m nervous.

You recently called out the creepy paps on Instagram – do you find the invasion of your privacy the hardest thing about fame?

It’s up there. There are a couple of things that I obviously didn’t foresee but yeah it’s definitely up there.

GLAMOUR readers love your hair – they’re obsessed – what products do you like to use on it, and is there anything you’d never do to your hair for a role?

I’d shave it off for sure. Oribe texturizing spray, if you’ve got fine hair like me, you can’t live without that shit. Klorane dry shampoo, again, with blonde hair and regrowth, when you use dry shampoo, not only does it kind of cover the regrowth a bit but it’s so good. And I get this stuff, my mum’s friend get this stuff from Thailand called Goa hair and I think it’s like seaweed extract but it’s so good. Every time I wash my hair I use it as a leave-in conditioner afterwards and it’s literally the only thing keeping my hair on my head. But readers are being so mislead, I have fine, boring hair – my hair is actually totally shit. Every time I go to an event they have like clip in hair extensions to thicken it up, not necessarily for length but just to thicken it up to make it look fuller than it is. So it’s not me, it’s a magical hair stylist making it look good. The glam squad!

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