Margot Robbie has taken a look back at Charli XCX’s “wild” Glastonbury 2025 set ahead of Wuthering Heights’ release in cinemas today.
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The actress, who plays Catherine Earnshaw in Emerald Fennell’s reimagining of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, was speaking to NME alongside co-stars Jacob Elordi and Alison Oliver.
Discussing Charli XCX, who released her 12-song Wuthering Heights soundtrack album today, Robbie described the singer as “so cool”, explaining, “It feels like yesterday I was watching her perform at Glastonbury and now we’re just having chats.”
About Charli’s headline slot on The Other Stage, Robbie continued, “There’s something different when a Brit performs at Glastonbury. They’ve probably been to Glastonbury, so they know what people want; they know the crowd.
“She immediately came out and we’re all screaming,” she added. “She’s like, ‘Don’t play with me, Glastonbury,’ and then she went into something else and everyone was losing their minds.”
Doing an impression of Charli, she continued, “She was like, ‘This is for my people in Block9’, and it’s like, ‘Yes, we’re going to go to Block9! I don’t know, she knew the crowd and everyone went wild.”
When asked if Charli had spoken to her about the viral ‘Apple dance’ – the ritual tradition of a big name performing the viral dance associated with the song – she joked, “I was in no state to do the ‘Apple’ dance!”
At Glastonbury, it was Gracie Abrams who filled the role, with her set on the same stage on Friday having been attended by Charli herself.
Gracie Abrams stuns as the “Apple” girl in Glastonbury.pic.twitter.com/vamTo8es4W
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Moving on to the Wuthering Heights soundtrack, Elordi said, “What I found interesting was that she started developing it from the screenplay, before we even started shooting. I think that’s so interesting – that you have one artist’s images, like Emerald’s, from 14 years old, to now reading this book, and then she puts those images into words. And then another artist comes in and starts creating a sound based off of those words.
“It’s like a completely original piece of work, you know? It’s so, so cool with no visual reference.”
Robbie described it as “unbelievable”. “We were just hoping for one song, and she was like, ‘I’ll do an album’,” she added, “We’re all like, ‘OK, great, thank you’.”
Elordi then discussed his Frankenstein co-star Oscar Isaac’s old ska-punk bands, confirming that he’d seen the old photos of him in his bands because he reblogged them on his film enthusiast Tumblr account.
When NME asked him if the account actually exists, he explained: “I’ve never deleted it. I did have a Tumblr account that was dedicated to thrashing the transit of Melbourne. Graffiti and cinema were my two passions.”
He added: “There must have been an X-Men film at that time and so he was trending on Tumblr and it was like, ‘Look at Oscar Isaac when he was this age’, because I had all pictures of young actors before they started making films on there”.
NME finished by asking the trio for an album they always go back to, and Elordi opted for The Notorious B.I.G.’s seminal 1994 debut ‘Ready To Die’, explaining that he first heard it when he was about 13 years old.
Robbie remained with the hip-hop theme, going for 50 Cent’s 2003 debut ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’’, while Oliver struggled to decide before settling on Amy Winehouse’s 2006 album ‘Back To Black’.
“I actually watched the Amy documentary again last week, for no reason, and she was just the most incredible artist of all time. She really was. And that’s also my karaoke song,” she said, before Robbie joked: “Are you even allowed to be Irish if you can’t sing?”
‘Wuthering Heights’ is in UK cinemas now
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