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Christina Izzo

Aussie Margot Robbie Explains Why She Frequently Chooses A 'Brooklyn Accent' When She Plays Harley Quinn And Other Americans In Movies

Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn looking excited in Birds of Prey.

Margot Robbie is famously Australian but you wouldn't know it from her filmography: across some of the best Margot Robbie movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, I, Tonya, or this year's billion-dollar blockbuster Barbie, you haven't heard the actress's natural Aussie accent ever the big screen. But there is one dialect that Margot keeps coming back to, and it ain't an accident. 

The performer-producer recently sat down with Variety to test whether she could recall some of her most memorable onscreen quotes. After correctly guessing Naomi Lapaglia's famous "What are you, a fucking owl?" line from the actor's Scorsese-directed breakout role, Robbie revealed why she loves doing a Brooklyn accent onscreen: 

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