Margot Robbie brands Amanda Holden a 'legend' as they neck beer and gin while doing a 'shoey' during morning interview

Margot Robbie branded Amanda Holden a 'legend' as they necked a beer and gin 'shoey' during a morning interview.

The actress, 35, spoke to Amanda, 54, on Heart Radio to promote her latest film Wuthering Heights which is released in cinemas on Friday.

During the interview, Amanda brought along a pair of shoe-shaped bottles so the pair could have 'shoeys' - when someone drinks out of a shoe as a party piece. It is popular in Australia as a celebratory ritual. 

Amanda said: 'I've got you a little present only because it's nearly lunchtime so I feel this is legal. As an Australian, I know you like shoeys.'

'I literally just told someone what a shoey is,' Margot replied.

Amanda then revealed the shoe-shaped bottles, one with beer, which she gave to Margot, and one with gin, which she drank herself.  

'This is actual beer. You can either go for a real one or a non-alcoholic one,' she said.

'I mean, obviously the real one. This is a very elegant shoey. Usually you do it out of some mangy old sneaker,' Margot said. 

'Cheers darling,' Amanda said as they both enjoyed their drinks.

Speaking about Wuthering Heights, Margot said the film has gone down well with her friends. 

'My friends who've seen it twice, they want to see it again. I've got a friend flying over for the London premiere because she wants to see it again,' she said.

She also praised the film's director Emerald Fennell and the 'tone' she set during the production.  

'Emerald is our leader who is always encouraging you to bare your soul. I never felt like I was going too far with my performance. I knew she'd protect me in the edit. I just had to give it my everything,' she said.   

It comes after Margot revealed that early in her career, an unnamed actor gave her a book that she thought essentially told her to 'eat less.'

'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,' the 35-year-old Australian actress recalled when she was asked about the worst gift she had ever received.

'It was essentially a book telling you to eat less,' Robbie continued in reference to the book, which was written by Mireille Guiliano and published in 2007.

Margot, who stars opposite Euphoria star Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights, recalled her outrage at her male costar after he gave her the book.

'I was like, "Whoa, f*** you, dude,"' she said.

Lest her fans try to piece together the clues to figure out which of her famous leading men might have given her the book, Robbie emphasized that she was given the book many years ago.

She said she was given the book 'really back in the day,' and she suggested that it wasn't an A-lister who had presented it to her, because she had 'no idea where he would even be now.'

That cued Charli to glance directly into the camera and joke, 'Your career's over, babe.'

Robbie reiterated, 'He essentially gave me a book to let me know that I should lose weight. I was like, "Wow."'

Although the actress shared few clues as to who might have given her the book, its 2007 publication was notably several years before she made the jump to American screens. 

Margot starred on the single-season period drama Pan Am on ABC from 2011 to 2012, and then in 2013, she got her big break when she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's modern classic, The Wolf Of Wall Street. 

Since then, she has acted almost exclusively with major stars, so her claim that she hasn't kept up with the actor's career would fall flat.

Listen to Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden weekdays from 06:30 – 10:00 across the UK and on Global Player.