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Thu 23 October 2025 15:15, UK
Since being rocketed from relative obscurity to the A-list with her first major role in a Hollywood movie, Margot Robbie has become accustomed to rubbing shoulders with Academy Award winners and icons since her breakout turn in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
Her list of co-stars since then makes for impressive reading, with the three-time Oscar nominee sharing an ensemble with Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Janney, Mike Myers, Saoirse Ronan, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Christian Bale, Idris Elba, Ryan Gosling, and more.
Robbie has also been building herself an empire as one of the industry’s newest powerhouse producers, backing box office phenomenons and acclaimed alike through Barbie, I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman, and Saltburn. She’s comfortably nestled among the most influential talents of her generation, which has given her the clout and creative freedom to write her own ticket.
There will no doubt be even more esteemed names and high-powered auteurs added to her collection in the years to come, but with the greatest of respect, the greatest scene partner she’s ever had isn’t on the same level. They also shared their scenes in a movie that barely anyone saw, and one that’s unlikely to be remembered as one of Robbie’s finest hours on either side of the camera.
In her second producorial credit, she took second billing behind Peaky Blinders and Animal Kingdom alum, Finn Cole, in director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s period drama, Dreamland. The latter plays a young man who discovers Robbie’s injured bank robber hiding out in his barn, but instead of claiming the bounty that’s on her head, he aids her in recovery and her ongoing life of crime.
A solid-if-unspectacular hybrid of a coming-of-age story, star-crossed romance, and Bonnie and Clyde riff, Dreamland flew largely under the radar and didn’t get much of a cinema release to speak of. Despite being much lower in profile than her biggest hits, Robbie couldn’t have spoken more highly of Cole.
“I would say Finn is literally the perfect scene partner,” she told Collider. “It’s a really tall order in this film. He has to kind of guide us through it. He really is the centre of the film. His journey is the emotional stakes of the entire film, so he has to hold the screen when he’s onscreen on his own. He’s got so many different dynamics and relationships that are at play here.”
Sorry, Jared Leto, sending Robbie weird gifts isn’t enough to make you her favourite co-star, not that anyone is ever likely to call him that when they’re probably too creeped out by his method antics. It’s one of her lesser-known films, largely because it didn’t get much publicity or hype, but Cole didn’t just bring his A-game; he brought perfection, according to his co-star.
If 100 people were asked to guess which actor Robbie called the “perfect scene partner,” it’s doubtful many of them would find their minds instantly drawn to the guy who played a young version of John Cena in the prologue to a Fast & Furious sequel, but that’s showbusiness for you.
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