Margot Robbie has opened up about what she describes as the worst gift she has ever received, recalling an early-career moment that left her shocked and offended.

The Australian actress and producer shared the story during a video interview with Charli xcx for Complex, where she was asked to name the most uncomfortable present she had ever been given. 

Robbie said the incident happened “very, very early” in her career, when a male actor she was working with handed her a copy of Why French Women Don’t Get Fat.

“Very, very early in my career, an actor I worked with, a male actor, gave me a book called Why French Women Don’t Get Fat, and it was essentially a book telling you to eat less,” Robbie, 35, said. 

The lifestyle book by Mireille Guiliano was published in 2007.

Robbie made it clear how she felt about the gesture at the time, adding, “I was like, ‘Whoa, f— you, dude.’”

She explained that the gift came “really back in the day” and said she has no idea where the actor is now. 

Charli xcx quickly jumped in with a joke, turning to the camera and saying, “Your career’s over, babe.”

Reflecting further, Robbie said the message behind the gift was unmistakable. “He essentially gave me a book to let me know that I should lose weight,” she said. 

“I was like, ‘Wow.’”

The conversation took place as Robbie promotes Wuthering Heights, writer-director Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic, which arrives in cinemas on Friday, February 13. 

Robbie leads the film, while Charli xcx, 33, has contributed original music to the project.

The pop star also shared her own unsettling experience when discussing bad gifts, telling Robbie that she once received “a small jar of one of my fan’s mother’s ashes”. 

She described it as “a jar on a necklace” and admitted she did not know what to do with it, adding, “I just didn’t quite know what to do with it … I don’t know where it is now.”

Wuthering Heights also stars Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell, and is set to be released in cinemas on Friday, February 13.

Michael Douglas has revealed that his now Oscar-winning performance in Wall Street almost came apart early on after director Oliver Stone openly questioned his acting during filming.

Speaking at the recent TCM Classic Film Festival in New York City, Douglas recalled a tense moment just two weeks into production on the 1987 film when Stone paid an unexpected visit to his trailer. 

“Okay, so we were finishing the second week of filming, and there was a knock on my door. ‘Hey Mike, it’s s Oliver. Can I come in?’” Douglas said. What followed, he admitted, caught him completely off guard.

Once inside, Stone asked if he was alright before bluntly questioning whether Douglas was taking drugs. 

Douglas told the audience that he denied it, only for the director to deliver a cutting assessment of his work. “Because you look like you’ve never acted before in your life,” Stone told him.

At the time, Douglas explained, he hadn’t been reviewing the daily footage of his scenes, something he typically avoids. 

He told Stone he doesn’t watch dailies because he tends to focus on flaws and what might not make the final cut. 

Still, the exchange forced him to reconsider. “So I said, ‘I guess I’d better take a look,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you better,’” Douglas recalled.

After reviewing the footage more closely once filming resumed, Douglas felt reassured rather than alarmed. He said the performances looked solid and repeatedly told Stone he believed the work was strong.

Eventually, the director came around and agreed with his leading man.

Douglas went on to portray Gordon Gekko, the ruthless corporate raider at the centre of Wall Street, opposite Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah.

Looking back, Douglas said he never took Stone’s harsh words personally, believing they were part of the director’s process. 

“He was willing for me to hate his guts for the rest of this movie to get that extra little push,” Douglas said. He added that Stone’s history with actors speaks for itself and credited him for pushing the performance further. 

“So I’m deeply, deeply appreciative of the fact that it gave me part and the fact that he pushed me to another level.”

The result was career-defining. 

Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role, along with a Golden Globe and the National Board of Review’s top acting prize. 

He later returned as Gekko in Stone’s 2010 sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

What began as a moment of doubt and degradation ultimately became one of the most celebrated performances of Douglas’ career, proving that even an Oscar-winning role can start with a door knock and a brutal reality check.

Catherine O’Hara died from a pulmonary embolism, with cancer as the underlying cause, according to a Los Angeles County death certificate issued Monday, The Associated Press reported.

The certificate lists the pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs, as the immediate cause of the actor’s Jan. 30 death at age 71. Rectal cancer was the long-term cause.

The oncologist who signed off on the certificate indicated that he had been treating O’Hara since March of last year, and last saw her on Jan. 27. She died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California. She was cremated, according to the document.

The beloved Canadian-born comic actor and “SCTV” alum starred as Macaulay Culkin’s mother in two “Home Alone” movies and won an Emmy as the dramatically oblivious wealthy matriarch Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek.”

Her death came as a surprise to most fans, and an initial statement from her representatives said only that she died “following a brief illness.”

Over the course of her five-decade career, O’Hara had roles on numerous television series, including “Six Feet Under,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “The Studio.”

She also appeared in several films, including the HBO production “Temple Grandin,” for which she received an Emmy nomination. 

In 2015, O’Hara teamed up with her longtime friend and fellow”SCTV” alum Eugene Levy for the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek.” The two also appeared in seven movies together throughout their careers, including four Christopher Guest mockumentaries.

Her collaborators and costars over the years, including Levy, Culkin, Guest and Pedro Pascal, paid her loving tribute after her death.

“Mama. I thought we had time,” Culkin posted on Instagram, along with side-by-side images of the two of them from “Home Alone” and the two together at Culkin’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. “I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much more to say. I love you. I’ll see you later.”

Michael Keaton, who starred alongside O’Hara in “Beetlejuice” and “The Paper,” wrote on Instagram, “She’s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis and my real life, true friend. This one hurts. Man am I gonna miss her.”

Seth Rogen, whom O’Hara had worked with recently on the Apple TV series “The Studio,” wrote on Instagram that she was “hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it.”

“We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it,” he added.