Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thanks so much for checking in with us again this week. My guest, one of Hollywood's biggest stars right now, Margo Robbie. Margo and I got together at the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel in New York City to talk about her latest role as Queen Elizabeth I in the new period drama Mary

Queen of Scots she plays opposite Sersha Ronan who plays Queen Mary margot tells me all about the

physical transformation she underwent for that film what it was like to work with her friend

sersia and the history she quickly had to study up on to learn about the queen

and to actually play that role.

She also reflects a little bit on where Hollywood is about a year after the launch of the Times Up

initiative, which took place at last year's Golden Gloves and the move by women at that

show, you might remember, to wear black.

She was one of 300 or so women in Hollywood to sign a letter

launching times up. She also talks about tackling the industry's gender problem head on through

her own production company. It's called Lucky Chat Productions. She focuses on telling female

driven stories and hiring females to make the films.

As you'll hear shortly, Margo and I got together in effectively a famous old room, the oak room,

but at that time when she and I sat down, it was a large, empty, I don't want to call it haunted-looking bar,

but it was, well, I guess you'll hear as you listen to the two of us talk.

It's a beautiful room, I want to be clear, but it was big and empty, and we had to talk about it just for a minute. So I hope you enjoy a great conversation with Margo Robbie, who moved her entire day around to be with me in that room right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thank you, Margo. It's so good to see you. Thanks. I want to say people listen to this on the podcast, where they hear the whole thing. So people don't get to see it, but here I want them to know that you moved your schedule around. You are here, and I am grateful. And we, also people can't see it, are in sort of an empty bar that evokes the shining maybe? A very eerie feeling.

We're in a very empty, creepy-looking room.

Feels like the hull of a ship.

Beautiful, you should say.

Beautiful, but definitely haunted in some way.

There's something in the air.

Yeah, I don't know if that's coming through on your podcast right now,

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