Back in early 2023, movie audiences were still unaware that pop culture’s near future would be taken over entirely by one of the most amusing and clever entertainment portmanteaus ever: Barbenheimer. It sparked an entire movement, and legitimately inspired people to rush out and watch Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer back to back, helping the former bring in over $1.4 billion at the box office, while the latter brought in around $950 million. It’s still quite the feat, even years later.
Robbie appeared on The Graham Norton Show to talk up her newest big-screen release, the sultry adaptation Wuthering Heights, which has done some box-office crushing of its own in its first weekend. Of course, she also reflected on the aforementioned success of Warner Bros.’ two blockbusters, and addressed a question that fans will still ask her about it, which sounds quite maddening to deal with. As she put it:
