Margot Robbie Says She Makes Movies for the People Who 'Buy Tickets,' Not Critics
Margot Robbie Says She Makes Movies for the People Who 'Buy Tickets,' Not Critics
Bailey RichardsWed, February 18, 2026 at 5:52 PM UTC
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Margot Robbie at the Australia premiere of 'Wuthering Heights'
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Margot Robbie says she makes movies for the audience, not critics
“I just believe you should make movies for the people who are going to buy tickets to see the movies,” says the actress
Robbie explained her approach in an interview for her new film Wuthering Heights, which she stars in and produced
Margot Robbie makes films for moviegoers, not critics.
The Oscar-nominated actress-producer, 35, shared her “simple” filmmaking philosophy in a conversation with her Wuthering Heights costar Jacob Elordi and moderator Joel Edgerton for Vogue Australia.
Asked how she considers the audience in the interview, published Monday, Feb. 16, Robbie told Edgerton, 51, that the experience of consumers is paramount, and critics' opinions are "never" on her mind.
“I consider audience always,” she said. “I’ve never, ever been on set and thought, ‘What are the critics going to think of this?' I’m like, ‘What’s an audience going to feel right now? What’s their emotional response going to be?’ ”
“I just believe you should make movies for the people who are going to buy tickets to see the movies,” she continued. “It’s as simple as that.”
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie
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Robbie went on to explain that Wuthering Heights writer-director Emerald Fennell shares a similar philosophy, which is one of the reasons why the Australian actress enjoys collaborating with her.
“I love working with Emerald, too, because she always prioritizes an emotional experience over a heady idea,” she said. “She's very smart and she's got great ideas and all this kind of stuff, but she will let a cool idea fall by the wayside to offer the option that is going to be most exciting for an audience. And I really appreciate that about her."
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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in 'Wuthering Heights'
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When it came to Wuthering Heights, Robbie also got a sneak peek at audience reactions with an early screening. The test subjects? Her own friends.
Ahead of the Valentine’s Day release of the film — Fennell’s polarizing version of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel — the star's friends threw her a fake bachelorette party for her character, Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw, during which they fawned over Elordi’s turn as Cathy’s lover, Heathcliff.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January, Robbie explained that she screened the film for her friends at the bachelorette party, for which “the theme, I think, was Victorian slutty.”
Watching it with her pals, the star said, was “the most unhinged experience of my life.”
“It ended up being the craziest night ever, but the screening itself … 20 women were like frothing at the mouth,” she said on the talk show. “They were like rabid dogs, and they were a couple of drinks in already, and then the movie started and they were screaming so much.”
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in 'Wuthering Heights'
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“Everyone's wearing lace, corsets and veils, and drunk and screaming at the screen. And when Jacob came on screen, I think it registered on the Richter scale; they screamed so loud.”
“Honestly, I was like, if he walked in right now, I think they would eat him,” she joked. “So it was safer that he wasn’t there.”
Wuthering Heights is in theaters now.
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