It feels like I haven’t written about Jennifer Lawrence in months. And that’s a good thing, because while I like J-Law, she was overexposed and she needed to give people a rest from her “I’m so normal, Dorito farts, y’all!” antics. But part of the reason why we haven’t missed J-Law is because we’ve had a new Normal, Relatable Blonde to obsess over: Margot Robbie. The entire press machine around Margot this year has been about how she’s so cool and down-to-earth, all she needs is a backpack and her boyfriend and sure, she’ll sleep on your floor and go hiking in the morning and she’ll still look amazing. Margot is the Aussie J-Law. And now I have even more evidence of this: Margot’s “24 Hours With” feature in Harper’s Bazaar. She loves a “beer shower” and is obsessed with drinking milky tea. She eats steak for breakfast. She’s a Potterhead. See? Relatable. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Her tea obsession: “I bring Dilmah tea with me everywhere, and when I’m in England I drink PG Tips. Whenever someone makes me a cup of tea, I’m like, ‘Imagine you’re making it for a small child—really milky and sweet.’ I probably drink at least 10 teas a day. In our family, a cup of tea is the answer to everything. When you walk in, you get offered a cup of tea. If something goes wrong, someone will be like, “I’ll make you a cup of tea.” If something good happens, they will be like, “Great! We’ll make you a cup of tea.”
She uses YouTube for research: “I do all my research for accents on YouTube. It’s amazing; you can find the most bizarre or unique accents online. Then I convert it to MP3 and put it on my iPod. I can listen and mimic throughout the day. In Suicide Squad, for example, I was doing a scene where I’m getting electrocuted, and I was like, Okay, am I going to be doing this accurately? And I went on YouTube and looked up people touching electric fences.”
Her breakfast: “I write all of my e-mails on my MacBook and eat. Avocado on toast and bacon, that’s my ideal breakfast. Today I actually ate half a steak. It’s random, but I went to this really good steak restaurant two nights ago and I had steak left over, and I was like, “G-ddamn, I can’t wait until lunch, I want to eat it now.”
She’s been working nights, so she unwinds after a hard night’s work with a beer shower: “I like to have a beer shower—a nice beer in the shower. When I did Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, I was saying, “Oh, my God, I can’t wait to go home,” and Tina Fey’s costume lady was like, “Me too. I can’t wait to go home and have a beer shower.” I was like, “What’s a beer shower?” She said she drinks an ice-cold beer in a boiling-hot bath or shower, and it made her sleep. I was like, “That sounds perfect!” So now when I get home from work, I have a beer shower or a beer bath if I have time.
She’s a Potterhead: “Also, I’m a massive Harry Potter nerd, and although I’ve read the books probably 20 times each, I read Harry Potter before bed and it helps me switch my brain off.”
Sleep is more important than working out: “I feel like my body looks better if I get more sleep rather than an hour at the gym. If I have the time, I like dance classes; it doesn’t feel like exercise to me. Or just playing sports with friends. Sometimes I play tennis, even though I’m not that good. If I’m in L.A., I go see Andie Hecker. She used to be a ballerina, and she incorporates ballet techniques with a Pilates machine with weights.”
She collects suitcases: “Though I live in London, I end up in L.A. all the time for work. Australia will always be home, but I haven’t lived there for six years. I love to travel and live out of suitcases. I have 12 of them at home because, you know, sometimes you get stuck in a country and you need to buy one. I can probably pack more things into a suitcase than any other human being. Some people have a shoe collection or a handbag collection; I’ve got tons of suitcases.”
See? She’s really relatable. If she was running for office, she would be the candidate that people would want to have a showerbeer with. She IS the Aussie J-Law. She might even be doing J-Law better than J-Law! Personally, I’ve never taken a beer or cocktail into the shower, but I have showered drunk before and that is… quite an experience. I never understand why people think a shower sobers someone up? But I digress… beer shower. Margot is the best.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Margot can never be J-Law.
Margot hasn’t done a ton of Oscar bait movies.
She is also a lot less obnoxious.
She does seem real in a not-trying-to-be-real kind of way. Just naturally relaxed and down to earth. I have the most massive girl crush.
What ever happened to JLaw anyway?
@shambles PLEASE check out her Playground Insults with Will Smith. HILARIOUS. Omg I have the biggest girl crush now. I had to watch it three times it was so amazing!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKC7vOhr2vM
Jlaw is filming in Montreal and has been all summer. She doesn’t get papped when she not out promoting. This is typical for her. She promotes and disappears.
Anyways I love Margot but I’m pretty sure we can all like more than one relatable blonde
Little Darling,
THIS IS AMAZING. Thank you so much for sharing! Oh my gaaahhhhd she’s savage. She’s a badass, she’s so chill, she’s impossibly beautiful, and her accent is gorgeous. And she might be a little stoned? Girl crush intensified by 100.
I think she comes across as really trying to be real. But still, not as anjoying as JLaw. Yet.
She seems like a Cool Girl to me, and the beer shower thing sounds fake AF. But.
This is the cycle we go through: she’s new, everyone likes her, oh how chill is she, how cool is she; then in a year or so, everyone will be whining about how she needs to go away and her beer shower thing will be something that people speak of with slight disdain while rolling their eyes, like JLaw’s dorito obsession / fart jokes.
Oh but she is. She is.
“Goodbye Christopher Robin” with Domhnall Gleeson, a biopic about the author of Winnie the Pooh. (She plays his wife)
“I, Tonya” about Tonya Harding.
“Queen of the Air” about Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who performed for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and had a torrid love affair with a fellow trapeze artist. Based on a nonfiction book.
Do those not sound Oscar-baity? These movies are based on real people. Historical biopics with an attention-grabbing female part. And then there’s a couple of sci-fi and action movies and an animated movie. Margot is smart. She knows to make her career well-rounded. But let’s not pretend she isn’t after an Oscar.
I don’t begrudge her for seizing her moment in the spotlight though. She’s taking advantage of her rising star, much like J-Law did. They both are doing admirable stuff – shaping and making their own careers, rather than waiting around and letting Hollywood trash them once they hit a certain age. This is the kind of example we need public figures to set for young girls: take charge of your career and seize every opportunity that comes your way.
^^^^^^^!! YES.
She’s not as annoying as Jenn. She’s more chill in my opinion.
You’re only saying that because Robbie is a new face: in a year’s time, everyone will be moaning about how over-exposed she is.
I agree with Ashley that Margot isn’t as annoying as JLaw. I won’t be tired of her in a year. I couldn’t read anything about JLaw after a few months at most.
JBAP – Yes. JLaw is exhausting. This girl is chill. Also, she’s not gross. I can’t read a JLaw article while I’m eating. There’s always something disgusting in there, ugh.
Yup. The backlash is a coming – as with every woman in Hollywood.
Love her and love J-law too!
But maybe that’s just because I’m a girl-next-door-looking blonde who hates working out and loves steak, doritos and beer myself 😀
As a black woman who loves a good work out and hates the taste of beer (Doritos are alright), I love both these women. I don’t like they are even being compared as if there can only be one likeable blonde on the market. If Channing Tatum and Chris Helmsworth can exist in the same universe without these comparisons, I don’t see why Jlaw and Margot can’t.
I’m with you Naya! Guys we can have 2 bubbly blondes, we don’t need to choose one, both J.Law and Margot seem like nice, fun girls, who you can get a few drinks with.
There can be only *one* Cool Girl™.
Exactly dragging Jlaw into a story about margot is eye roll inducing. But in the next breath the same people will be all “don’t bring down women” ummmm pretty sure there’s room for Jlaw and Margot. They are both awesome and funny women who love HP.
Well men do get compared to each other in a slightly different way.
Actually there’s been several polls over the years comparing the Chris’s. Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt and Chris Evans. Polls such as whose the hottest Chris, or which Chris is your favorite, or which is the better actor. Over the years men got it to we were just not paying attention.
Years ago people used to compare Schwarzenegger, Willis and Stallone all the time and try to pit them against each other. Who was the better action star as if we couldn’t just enjoy all three of them. They didn’t play into their trap and ended up opening a restaurant together.
Then it was Jean Claude Van Dame versus Steven Siegel in who is the better martial artist.
And some people have even compared Cumby to Hiddles.
ITA, Naya.
Actually though, where has JLaw been lately?? I feel like I havent even seen photos of her. This goes to show if you reallly want a break from the limelight you can…ahemmm
This goes to show you the people papped every day are as every bit as thirsty as you can imagine and its usually the talentless ones. If mega stars like The Jolie Pitss, Jennifer Lawrence, Beyoncé can all disappear when not working than anyone can.
They can disappear because they are such huge mega stars. They don’t need to remind people they exist. If JLaw wasn’t as big as she is, I bet she’d be pap strolling and instagramming all the time because she’s super attention hungry.
If she’s SO attention hungry she would be doing pap walks now regardless of her level of fame…see Taylor Swift for comparison
Montreal filming a movie. and agree with loopy anyone that believes a celeb can’t hide out is naive.
She’s not gross about bodily functions, so no, she’s not J-Law. I didn’t hear anything about poo, pee, puke, boogers… Just a little bit about food, but she’s not ultra thin, so I believe she eats. She’s also ridiculously beautiful. J-Law is as well, but not in such an in your face kind of way. J-Law can pretend to be just like the rest of us. Margot just can’t. She’s abnormally attractive.
Me either. It’s…I don’t know… a bit too personal, you know? And it seems to be the go-to for a “see? I’m just like you!” message. Like, I already know that you poop, unless you’re some kind of sentient robot and not a human, I know you poop, you really don’t need to describe it. “Relatable” for me is more about common human emotional experiences than bodily functions.
Which is hilarious because as an animal person I will happily discuss animal bodily functions all day and over meals. My husband has to leave the room when my friends and I get together because we talk about the nastiest stuff (according to him). Why would we pause our fascinating discussion about the cow GI tract just because it’s time for dinner? But for some reason I find humans gross.
I don’t think she is the new J Law, she is just a bubbly aussie girl. And why must there always be the new Rihanna, the new Mariah, the new Meryl Streep when it comes to women.
There’s a new James Dean , Marlon Brando , Michael Jackson, and Denzel Washington when it comes to men all the time.
I agree! Let her be the new Margot – not the next JLaw or whomever.
In my circle we call it a “shower beer” and it sounds less …sticky than saying it her way.
yes – when i lived the dorm we would all get ready to go out at the same time and have shower beers. a hot shower with a cold beer is wonderful.
Ok. I’ve done this. At school, yes, and once in a while, I’ve done similar after a long particularly stressful/exhausting day (usually only after a long arduous hiking day on vacation,, before going out).
Even very chilled Reisling or V&T in a travel flask. A few sips in a hot shower, surprisingly relaxing.
My husband does that all the time and he calls it “shower beer” too. I was like she’s saying it wrong when I read the title lol. But we live the kind of life where you take showers in the evening because you’re sweaty and dirty by the end of the day.
I’ve done that after a long sweaty run. I also like wine in the bath.
Yes! I used to love a shower beer! Used to have a shower with a seat in it- perfection.
As an Australian, I really hope they misquoted her and that she didn’t get this wrong, as the correct term is clearly “shower beer”.
Yeah! I’m surprised she’d never heard of it, it’s an Aussie institution.
She isn’t as overexposed, so she doesn’t annoy me yet.
And I love a good beer shower. Never had one to try to get to sleep at night, but I’ve often taken a beer into the shower to cool down from a fight with my partner or relax after a particularly stressful work day.
I thought she meant rinsing her hair with beer since it’s said it makes your hair shiny.
Showering drunk is the worst, because you have to keep motivating yourself “Ok I can do this, just take the soap, nope that’s the facewash, grab the soap, come on, you can do it. Ok, now wash your face. STOP, I MEAN YOUR BODY, WASH YOUR BODY. Hey, it’s raining….”
HAHAHHAAHA
Lmao. All of this.
lol
Conversely, showering stoned is AMAZING.
This made me laugh so hard just now. Props.
Lots of my friends have ‘wine’ showers, so that’s not too out there. I think a lot of actresses have had this personality type (Mae West!), and sort of have to, to make it.
I think Jen has a special quality to her. Love her or hate her, she stands out as someone different within Hollywood. I like Margot but I find her so generic. Shes the completely inoffensive blonde Hollywood has always liked.
I also think while J-Law can be annoying and she’s not as great as the Academy thinks she is (why so many Oscar nominations??), she’s still phenomenal. She’s miles better at acting than Margot.
With J-Law, there’s something really natural and organic about her performances – she’s never had training, and you can tell. She’s raw. That can hurt the performance sometimes, but it’s gone pretty well for her so far. Sometimes with the classically-trained actors they are too cerebral. You can see it. They think so hard and so much you can see them thinking as they act.
But then again, I don’t think Margot has had training either? Oh JK I looked her up. She studied drama in university. I just find her so….stilted. I think the accent work does definitely trip up most actors. They’re concentrating so hard on producing the accent they forget about everything else.
Didn’t J-Law go to school for acting or was that just acting camp?
J-Law started acting when she was 14, so I’m assuming she didn’t really have time to go to official classes or drama school. Her mom ran a kids’ summer camp. J-Law did perform in church plays and grade school musicals, but no formal schooling for acting.
jLaw is quite witty and sharp and charismatic. margot seems relatable but not as witty, but no knock against her, as most of us aren’t Jlaw. margot seems less obnoxious but that could just be because she’s new and not as famous.
Oh, I disagree completely. In every role Margot has had, from the Queen of the Hamptons trophy wife in Wolf of Wall Street to a BBC correspondent in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot to a supervillain anti-hero in Suicide Squad, she’s pretty much blown me away.
You can’t really compare J-Law and Margot on the acting front yet. Margot hasn’t had the chance yet to deliver the type of character-driven, complex leading lady performances that Lawrence produced for her three Best Actress noms. But judging by what she’s produced so far, Margot looks able to compete at the level.
She’s not as annoying as JLaw yet, but somehow I have the feeling she’ll get there.
She’s annoyed me since she humble bragged about texting Prince Harry. Once an actor/actress annoys me, it’s so hard to look past it. I’m such a bitter Betty about it.
Same, same.
But I think my negative perception of Margot is tied up with “the male gaze,” unfortunately. People loved J-Law almost universally when she first came on the scene. Especially dudes. Then the celebrity hacking scandal happened. And the bros started to hate on Jen and slut shame her. That ended their celebrity crush. And I think everybody else started turning on her (for a myriad of reasons, not just the nude scandal).
Now there’s Margot. Everybody loves her. She’s “relatable.” She’s J-Law 2.0, carefully crafted and little toned down. But inevitably the dude-bros will turn on her. And I know this, and I hate how she caters to the dudes. She’s much too hyper-aware of her appearance and is shaping her career around this (Harley Quinn, anyone?)
Hotness has an expiration date, for most actresses. In Hollywood, dude-bros make you popular in the short-term. But women give you the lasting power. And I think Margot’s already started to alienate the women.
I suspect that J-Law remains massively popular outside certain Internet bubbles – more so than just about anyone else out there. But this general point you make is spot-on.
I miss J-Law. She’s being smart and stepping outside the limelight for a while, but she has an anarchic edge and a sarcastic sense of humour that I miss in Robbie, who doesn’t give off the same energy.
Having said that, Robbie’s PR team has obviously been memorising the Lawrence playbook for how to become a mega-star.
I really like margot. Her movies are great and she is amazing at accents! Most aussie actresses are I find. Cannot stand Jennifer. She should of taken a step away a long time ago. She just got so irritating and then her BFF omg obsessed with friendship with amy schumer?! Just… no.
Sadly, I don’t think my shower is large enough for a beer shower, or shower beer for that matter. I can’t think of anywhere that I could set down the bottle where it wouldn’t get full of water!
But I do love a bubble bath with a glass of wine at the end of a long day.
Cool Girl in training.
I can’t wait for a stone cold bitch who doesn’t give a f-ck to turn up and be allowed to be an actress. I’m so very over relatable cutesiness. I want haughty, aloof and poker faced, a bona fide Ice Queen.
(and no, Vikander doesn’t count. She’s ambitious as all hell, but still aims squarely for chattily relatable. See any of her talk show antics.)
What about Charlize Theron?
She certainly seems to be the Ice Queen nowadays, but I think it’s because she’s already established in Hollywood and she just doesn’t give a f–k anymore. But back in the day, before her Oscar win, she probably had to play the game and be the “cool girl” (this was before the Internet and social media really blew up, so we have less an idea of what she was like). But I bet she was the J-Law (fun, relatable blonde) of the 90s and early 2000s.
@KHBHL yeah, I seem to remember Charlize was a beer swiggin’ fun gal back in the early days.
Marion Cotillard? Angelina?
I don’t think Angelina is an Ice Queen. A little reserved nowadays but she always seems warm (not to mention wild) to me.
Marion Cotillard may be many things but an Ice Queen she is not. I’ve seen plenty of interviews with her where she’s giggly and chatty and very open (although most of those were in French. Maybe she’s different in the US? A language thing?). Don’t think Angelina is an Ice Queen either, more private now, but in her heyday she was a prime “Cool Girl” candidate, and as Lannister said, very “warm” feeling.
Can’t think of anyone else, really. Maybe we need a new cold as ice femme fatale. But perhaps the Instagram culture means we’ll never get a new one?
How about Rihanna? She’s alwayz been chill, even during her Pon de Replay days.
Haha no January Jones is the ultimate ice queen but her other behaviour turns most people off her. I love her!
Would they be allowed to be as successful if they were? Men are generally allowed to be difficult or unrelatable. Women, not so much.
In fairness to her, she said absolutely nothing about a 6am shower beer. Also, a beer in the shower after work or getting ready to go out is fantastic.
A beer or even better – a big glass of wine – and a hot Epsom salt bath is better than a valium. I’m so calm after that I sleep like a baby.
She was overexposed for me months ago. Maybe it’s because i spend so much time on the internet, but she needs to go lay down for a while.
Lol calm down, she had two big movies to promote! Don’t click articles about her and voila – overexposure solved
Love her (and JLaw). There’s something inspiring about how laid-back and unaffected she seems, I wish I was more like that. And she has lots of talent. I went to see SQ last Saturday and thought she understood the character she was playing (a mentally insane young woman, as opposed to a romantic heroine).
I really love her and JLaw (most of the time) but who ARE these women who are so hot and funny and goddamn quirky and cool and relatable and not “difficult”? I don’t know them in real life. My friends and I are not like that. We’re relatable because we’re boring, maybe. I have to work out, I can’t eat steak in the morning because I’m not 24 and my stomach will flip me off. I’m not chill all the time, I can be super difficult.
I honestly feel like it’s not them, it’s the media. Trying to turn them into cool girls. And then the rest of us better follow their lead!
I like Margot a lot and I like J Law. But I do grow tired of the reality that the “cool girls” are always conventionally hot, white (usually blond) women with outgoing personalities who can be ‘one of the guys.” It’s the same thing over and over again. Lather rinse repeat.
I can’t wait for Emma Stone to start promoting something. I miss her.
She has far to go before she’s as obnoxious, rude, bigoted, uneducated or ignorant as Jennifer Lawrence. I also don’t recall her having any (comically!) public arrangements with a particular lecherous producer.
I think Margot is still trying to find her public persona angle but I hope she doesn’t choose “Brain Dead Cool Girl”. She seems chill in the few interviews I’ve seen of hers. If she starts yelling about how much she loves farts it would be very disappointing.
Not a fan of this chick persay, but I find her less obnoxious than the ultimate ‘cool girl’ by far. I only saw her in one thing and it was exponentially better than anything I have had the misfortune of seeing ‘cool girl’ in, in terms of acting skills. I think she seems much ‘cooler’ than ‘cool girl’.
She’s no Jennifer Lawrence. She tells the story of the beer in the shower, saying a crew member told her what it was.
With Lawrence, since she’s so real and so cool, the anecdote would have been how she taught everyone to do it, plus the joy of burping and emptying your bladder afterwards.
Robbie has miles to go before reaching Lawrence’s point.
She is as real as you are gonna get in lala land
I like Robbie, and hope she has a great career. However she definitely doesn’t have J-Law’s charisma. Lawrence may rub some people the wrong way, but she has personality and talent to burn, as well as being outspoken – one reason I think why some people hate on her.
This woman bores the crap out of me for some reason. And so does J-Law actually, come to think of it. I can’t figure out why…. They’re both beautiful and great actresses, but I find them very bland. I’d much rather read an interview with Megan Fox or Shailene Woodley. Dirt food and numerology and general craziness is just so much more entertaining than “shower beer.”
I’m cracking up over her thinking that she’s such a rebel for eating steak for breakfast. Steak and eggs, anyone? Oh, Margot, you wild and crazy gal.
Anyone have an ID on that gorgeous, salmon colored, eyelet lace wrap deal she is wearing? I have got to get me one of THOSE.
It’s by Spell & The Gypsy Collective.
To answer the last bit, it was my experience when I was much younger that a COLD shower helped one sober up, because shivering got the adrenaline going.
I like her way better than J-Law, she is relatable but does not go overboard like Jlaw so that’s good.
Well, I do love Harry Potter and a bath with a book AND a beer on occasion. Sounds like she’s definitely friend material!
The beer shower thing is what lots of Aussies do in summer even in guilty of it. I actually met her very briefly once when she was ok the Aussie soap opera neighbours she was so lovely and kind just a real regular girl who is normal.