Margot Robbie and British film producer Tom Ackerley have been married for seven years. I feel like while we’ve seen so much of Margot over the last year thanks to Barbie’s success, we never really heard much about her husband. Tom was a producer for Barbie, but some of his other credits include Saltburn, Promising Young Woman, and the TV miniseries Maid. Last week, Margot, Tom, and a few of their friends launched a new gin brand called Papa Salt. Margot did an interview with The Sunday Times that came out over the weekend, in which she talks about Papa Salt and the difference between promoting a movie and a brand product. The Sunday Times also spoke with Tom for the piece. They asked him what it’s like to work with his wife, and he responded that because they spend “24 hours a day” with one another, it’s a “seamless” separation between their personal and professional lives.
Tom Ackerley can’t get enough of Margot Robbie! The British film producer raved about his wife of seven years during Robbie’s latest interview with The Sunday Times, in which Ackerley revealed that the pair spends “24 hours a day” together.
“It’s seamless,” Ackerley told the outlet when asked how they separate business and pleasure. “We don’t have a toggle on, toggle off. It’s all become one thing.”
Adding that he “feels like an honorary Aussie, Margot feels like an honorary Brit,” Ackerley said the duo only argues over “whether Tim Tams or Penguins are better” — referring to snacks from their respective home countries. He also joked that he wished “there was more of a sporting rivalry” between Australia and England.
Robbie also discussed her new gin brand Papa Salt, which she launched last week alongside her husband and three other friends. As she told The Times, the movie business is about selling “an idea,” while she’s in the “straightforward” world of pushing her new brand.
“You have no idea how much it’s going to make, who’s going to see it, if they’ll see it or how it will be received,” she said of movies. “This feels a lot more straightforward, it’s easier to predict things. You can lay this out on a spreadsheet in a way that you can’t lay out a movie idea.”
The two, who tied the knot in a private ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast in December 2016, are largely private about their personal lives — despite stepping out at some recent events together.
In November, Robbie tapped Ackerley to read a playful acceptance speech that she wrote at Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles. While accepting the producer of the year award for her LuckyChap Entertainment company, the Barbie star was unable to speak after losing her voice, so her husband and her production partner Josey McNamara read it aloud on her behalf.
The trio co-founded LuckyChap together — along with Sophia Kerr — in 2014 and have since gone on to produce films including I, Tonya, Birds of Prey and Barbie.
“Margot’s lost her voice about four days ago,” Ackerley said, as McNamara added, “So she’s written this speech that Tom and I are going to read, so we apologize in advance: This is not our strong point.”
During the speech, Robbie had Ackerley say multiple times that Dua Lipa — who presented the award — is his “crush.”
She also wrote in the speech, “I have watched for the last 10 years as these two dudes have dedicated their careers to supporting women in this industry, and nothing could make me love them more.”
Man, I’m impressed that they can work together while also being together 24/7. My husband and I got along really well when we were both working from home together during the Covid lockdowns, but that was because we were each working separate jobs. We have very different work-styles – he needs noise to focus and I need peace and quiet – so I think we would drive each other insane if we were living and working together without a break. Good for them! Also, that’s funny that Margot made Tom call Dua Lipa his “crush” several times while he was reading her acceptance speech. That kind of joking around reminds me of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ trolling each other on social media. It’s fun in that it’s lighthearted and both parties are into it. It sure beats the drama that a lot of other couples tend to bring to the publicity table. May Margot and Tom have many more years of personal and professional bliss.
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I like them as a couple. He lets her shine, I think that is sweet. Now, spending all the time with someone is weird to me, but my sister and her hubby are like that. To each their own.
I know that we aren’t supposed to focus on physical beauty, but I might have a difficult time being around that much glamour all day/all night. She looks like the type of person who absolutely glows, even when she’s sweaty or has just woken up. She’s clearly smart, ambitious and hard-working on top of it.
Agreed. I don’t think she ever looks bad TBH.
I feel kinda bad because he’s really a nice-looking guy but next to her, he looks so basic. She is just THAT gorgeous.
Blech, gin. But I guess it’s sort of a thing, or becoming a thing. Are there celebrity vodkas?
I would go crazy with my hubby around me all the time, he is such a talker, and I need quiet. Conversely, I do need noise when I work, but not talking noise, like tv noise. But if anyone is around me, I get distracted. Working from home is complicated!
Jason Momoa has a vodka and canned water. Personally I would prefer if celebrities would endorse non alcoholic beverages though.
My husband and I worked together for a few months and it wasn’t terrible, but we were also on opposite sides of the building. These two seem really into each other and it’s cute. I like them.
Whoa. Some people really do have *their* person, no? They seem happy! I wish them many more years together.
I love that they are each others people. I married my person, worked with him for a decade and it was amazing.
If I didn’t know he was the Brit, I would still know, because he thinks Penguins are in the same league as Tim Tams!