ATTN HARRY POTTER NERDS: Margot Robbie, inexplicably flawless human, is just like you.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel last night, the actress was sprung with her “most embarrassing photo of my whole life“: a pic of her, age 13, bedecked with glasses and braces, and in bed with a cup of tea and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I can safely say I have never related to a celebrity harder.
“I don’t even think I would recognise you,” said old mate Jimbo.
“Weirdly enough, I think that was actually on my 13th birthday,” she replied. “I’m drinking a cup of tea, I’m in bed, I’m clearly really enjoying myself reading Harry Potter, I have braces which I had for two years, I was really into slicking my hair back – god know’s why – and I am wearing glasses which I didn’t actually need.”
What.
“I have 20/20 vision, and I lied to get glasses, so I could look like Harry Potter.”
WHAT.
“They’re not even cool ones, they’re ugly glasses. I went to the optometrist and I was like ‘Ohh I can’t see that, oww my eyes hurt’. My mum was like, ‘Do you really need glasses?’ and I was like ‘Yes I do.’”
MARGOT ROBBIE YOU SPECIAL HUMAN. You get it.
Watch the interview below:
In other, vaguely-related Harry Potter news, Daniel Radcliffe has said that he’s not totally ruling out playing Harry Potter as an adult.
“It would depend on the script,” he said in an interview with Radio Times. “The circumstances would have to be pretty extraordinary. But then I am sure Harrison Ford said that with Han Solo and look what happened there! So I am saying, ‘No,’ for now but leaving room to backtrack in the future.”
So by that logic, if indeed Dan Radcliffe does a Harrison Ford and signs on for another Harry Potter film, we can safely assume that [SPOILERS] it is because Harry’s son Albus Severus has finally cracked it with his stupid name and straight-up murdered his dad. Time, as they say, will tell.
Correction: an earlier version of this article said that Margot was reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This was a grievous oversight and a complete waste of the author’s 50+ readings of the series. She has now been executed.
