When Netflix released Sex Education [1] at the beginning of 2019, Twitter was very quick to point out the striking resemblance between one of the main characters — Maeve Wiley — and Margot Robbie [2]. As far as celebrity dopplegängers go, this one is pretty damn good.
So, when Emma Mackey [3] visited BBC 1 Radio on Thursday morning with Sex Education costar, Ncuti Gatwa [4], to discuss the imminent release of Sex Education's second season, host Greg James had to address the elephant in the room. "[Margot Robbie] was being interviewed with Brad Pitt [5] and Leonardo DiCaprio [6] . . . and they were saying 'who have you been mistaken for?'" Emma immediately knew where the conversation was heading.
"Someone came up — a few weeks ago, I was eating a burger at Apple Pan — and they were like, 'oh, I loved you in Sex Education. That show is so cool, we just started watching it'," Margot says in the clip. "And I was like 'oh, I'm so sorry, that's not me." As for what Emma thinks of the whole thing, she says "it just made me laugh."
"It's kind of like a running thing now, a running joke that, you know 'have Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey been seen in the same room?' But I think it's amazing, I'll take it." Watch the full clip above to reacquaint yourself with the lovely Sex Education cast ahead of the season two release on Jan. 17.