Suicide Squad's Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne talk tequilla slammers and joining the mile-high club

BFF's Robbie and Delevingne are tearing things up
BFFs: Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie
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Celebrity friendships are unfathomable. Unexpected pairings titillate; political alliances fascinate. But they are all fanciful projections of our own desires: most of the time we have no idea whether these people have even met. Friendships are easy to fake on Instagram. And so perhaps Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie are only pals for the camera: photogenic, telegenic blondes who happen to be co-starring in the summer blockbuster Suicide Squad.

On the other hand, their exuberant interview in the latest issue of LOVE magazine — whose remit also covers “Death by coconut”, “Joining the Mile High Club” and “Seducing Prince Harry” — suggests that perhaps their friendship is sincere. Maybe.

It’s not the first time Cara has played giggly interrogator to one of her mates: she interviewed Kim Kardashian for LOVE’s February 2015 issue. She asked Kim about “same-sex experiences” (didn’t go down well) and Spanx. This time, the conversation is more natural. Or, as LOVE frames it, “the kind of fearless candour only close friends can get away with”.

The piece, written by journalist Paul Flynn, is half a dissection of Robbie’s rise, and half a lively transcript of a chat between the pair which, according to Robbie, took place in a hairdressers — “It was so loud in there and every time someone was talking I was like, ‘God, the poor person that has to listen to this’,” she recounts to Flynn.

This new power pairing sounds like a laugh. It may sound unfair but a night out with Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid sounds like a rather joyless affair: Jenner rarely musters a smile; Gigi’s hewn abs surely do not permit anything as sinful as a pint. And while Taylor and Karlie Kloss are cute, they are rather lacking in edge.

On the other hand, off the back of this interview Cara and Margot (“Cargo,” says Delevingne, excitedly) sounds like the sort of riotous pairing who would get you home safe at the end of the night, though likely missing a shoe or your credit card.

They enjoy pranks — of course they do — texting a mutual contact who turns out to be Prince Harry. Delevingne suggests the game (“we both get to go through each other’s phone and send a message to one contact”) after some cooing over each other’s phone books (Delevingne has Paris Hilton, Robbie Tina Fey).

They agree on a friend. It’s “PH” to Cara, “Hazza” in Robbie’s. They both send a text claiming to have dreamt about him. He replies with easy charm: “You two are obviously together. But I’m extremely glad I was in your dreams.”

Robbie tells Flynn that she met the prince through Cara. “He’s friends with Cara,” she says, casually. “He’s the most normal guy ever. I didn’t realise it was him. I just thought it was a guy named Harry and thought, ‘What a nice guy’.” Spoken like an unaffected Republican.

We discover that the BFFs met at Windsor Castle before they were both cast in Suicide Squad. It was “super-fancy”, says Robbie, who was after some less wholesome fun. A waitress offered her water or champagne; you can almost hear her roll her eyes. “I said, ‘God, I want a tequila’,” she tells Flynn. “Cara, who I’d never met before, was about five metres away and her ears just pricked up and she said, ‘Did someone say tequila?’ I was like, ‘You and I are so going to be best friends’.” Friendships forged in drink are the real deal.

Cover star: Cara Delevingne graces the front of LOVE (Photography: Willy Vanderperre, Styling: Katie Grand, Hair: Syd Hayes, Make Up: Miranda Joyce)

So with that established, how does the interview unfold? Delevingne opens on a scatological note and it becomes a recurring theme. Her first line references her insistent bladder (“Can I do a nervous wee?”); Robbie is a graceful subject (“Course you can”).

Later Delevingne demands: “When was the last time you peed yourself?” To which Robbie admits: “I’m embarrassed to say that I do have an answer to this. In the Philippines… We were on the back of a fly-fisher.” She fell off, got stuck under a mate’s legs and the friend started “peeing”. “We were all absolutely dying laughing,” Robbie continues. “My legs were under hers, so she was effectively peeing on my legs and I was laughing so hard at that that I started peeing on her. We were essentially peeing on each other.”

It transpires later that Delevingne has also “peed” on Robbie in a swimming pool. Certainly, theirs is an edgy reworking of the well-worn trope of women visiting the loos together.

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Presumably there are no limits after you have shared such an experience. The pair are also candid about their sex lives. Delevingne wants to know “the weirdest place” that Robbie has ever had sex. “On a jet-ski,” replies the Australian.

“Moving?”

“No! That’s aiming way too high. A non-moving jet-ski, but in the water.”

Delevingne counters that hers is a “plane or a lift”. “I’ve had sex in planes a lot. But I’ve always been caught. It’s super-hard not to get caught. I had sex in the chair on the plane and there was a guy watching. We ended up telling the air stewardess what was happening. Like, ‘This guy keeps staring at us. Can you tell him to stop?’”

Robbie posits that it’s “embarrassing …that you can’t then walk away afterwards. You have to sit through it.”

Robbie doesn’t say who she joined the Mile High Club with — though elsewhere she is effusive about her boyfriend, Tom Ackerley. “It’s so embarrassing,” she gushes. “I keep telling myself to not talk about him in interviews because I don’t want him to be mentioned in interviews all the time. But I can’t help talking about him.” He’s an assistant director — they met on the set of Suite Française — and a partner in her production company. They hutch up together in Clapham with four mates.

BFFs: Margot Robbie was interviewed with Cara Delevingne (Photography: Willy Vanderperre, Styling: Katie Grand, Hair: Syd Hayes, Make Up: Miranda Joyce)

“ADs work even longer hours than actors,” she reflects. “I knew that I never wanted to be with an actor. But I knew there would be a massive benefit in being with a crew member because it’s so hard to be with someone who doesn’t understand the industry. It’s so hard to explain to them, ‘I can’t tell you what time I’m going to finish tonight, I can’t come to your sister’s wedding in three months’ time. I’ve no idea where in the world I’ll be’. Crew members understand that because they’ve got the same lifestyle.”

Robbie tells Delevingne she envies men. “I’d rather be a man than a girl,” she tells her friend. “Maybe a rock star, someone who can just be like having sex all the time and partying and is never judged.” On this theme, Delevingne demands: “If you had a penis for a day, what would you do with it?” Robbie doesn’t need to think. “Everything that a penis can do. That’s what I would do. All day.” More urine: she’d also “piss standing up”. Taylor and Karlie would be scandalised.

If Robbie were an egg she’d be poached (“I like being in water, swirling around in it”); Delevingne would be scrambled. Robbie would like to die at 74, felled by a “coconut falling on my head. If you’re going to die by coconut then it means you’re chilling on a beach somewhere,” she reasons. Her karaoke go-to is Total Eclipse of the Heart. “Slow start but everyone gets into it about halfway through.”

As children, both wanted to own their own businesses, and both used to steal their siblings’ things and sell them on eBay. Robbie wants four children: three boys and a girl. Delevingne wants three. “I think people always say they want the number that they grew up with,” says Robbie. Delevingne agree. Both girls dream about their teeth falling out. “Someone told me it’s a regular dream if you’re stressed,” Robbie offers sagely, who admits that her biggest fear is “always wasting time”. These girls do deep too.

And unguardedly affectionate. Robbie must depart at speed — she is expected at an event. Delevingne hollers at her retreating back, “God, I love you.” Robbie retorts, “I love you!” Sham relationships shy from the L word: these two aren’t pretenders.

Read the full Mean Girls interview in LOVE 16 Fame, Goths & Toffs! autumn/winter 2016, out on July 25. thelovemagazine.co.uk

Follow @phoebeluckhurst and @StandardShowbiz for more news.

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