Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley's Whimsical Romance
has captured hearts. The couple met in 2013 while working on the WWII-era romance Suite Française, where Ackerley served as third assistant director and Robbie had a supporting role.
"I am so lucky," Robbie told E! News at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards, where Barbie would go on to be named Best Comedy. "He likes being behind the camera. He's not fazed by any of this stuff."
The idea of relationships made her want to vomit, but then she found love with Ackerley. They bonded over their shared passion for filmmaking and eventually tied the knot in a private ceremony in Byron Bay, Australia.
"Everyone was, like, 'No! This is going to ruin our group!'" Robbie recalled. "And then it didn't. It was fine."
Not only did they get married, but their production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, thrived. They even rode the seven-car Seven Stars across the island of Kyushu in Japan and waited in line for three and a half hours to sample udon carbonara in Tokyo.
"I'm a great advocate of doing business with your partner," she told Porter in 2018. "Being married is actually the most fun ever, life got way more fun somehow. I have a responsibility being someone's wife, I want to be better."
At the same time, Robbie told Vogue Australia, they were "still best friends and roommates, so nothing's really changed at all."
"I think this'll be the [marketing campaign] they do dissertations on," Ackerley told The Upcoming at the film's London premiere, hanging out with fellow producer David Heyman while Robbie was belle of the ball. And he allowed that his wife and Ryan Gosling made for a "great combination" as Barbie and Ken.
"He's usually a very loud and friendly person," Robbie told Vogue in 2019 of her press-averse husband, "but he's definitely behind the cam."
Their set-up is win-win for her, though, because she can talk about work all the time. And then work feels like fun. And fun stuff can involve work."
"We just get along," she said. "I think it's crazy that not all couples get along."