Margot Robbie: Don't just presume I'm having a baby because I got married

Margot Robbie arrives at the London premiere of Mary Queen of Scots
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Margot Robbie has said she is fed up of being asked when she is going to have children after getting married.

The actress, 28, said she was furious that it is often expected motherhood is the inevitable second step after getting married, saying: “I’ll do what I’m going to do”.

She drew parallels with her character Elizabeth I in the new Mary Queen Of Scots film as she discussed the expectation of motherhood.

Discussing the pressure on the monarch to produce an heir, Robbie told Radio Times magazine: "It made me really angry; how dare some old guy dictate what I can and can't do when it comes to motherhood or my own body?

"Unfortunately, it's a conversation we're still having.”

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"I got married (to film-maker Tom Ackerley, in 2016), and the first question in almost every interview is 'Babies? When are you having one?'

"I'm so angry that there's this social contract. You're married, now have a baby. Don't presume. I'll do what I'm going to do."

The Australian star also said that frustration over the lack of strong female roles had led her to set up her own production company.

Margot Robbie has said she is fed up with being asked when she is going to have children after tying the knot
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"I wasn't seeing many scripts where I wanted to play the female role - I always wanted to play the male role.

“The female roles are always a catalyst for the male story, and that's unsatisfying," she said.

"So I was like 'Well, we'll start making our own films, because we can't just sit around for ever and wait for them to come along'."

Robbie told the magazine: "I'm only really finding out the most fascinating things about history now that we have a production company.

"We're finding these projects and I'm learning all these things. It's like 'So why is this not in the history books?'

"The things women did in the Second World War were incredible," the I, Tonya star said.

"We have a TV project (in development) about female code-breakers who shaved two years off the war. Never heard of any of them."

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