“I suspect she is as fragrant as spring, as ripe as summer, as sad as autumn and as coldly possessed as winter”.
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Second of all. Margot, we love ya, but we don’t think “fair dinkum” means what you think it means.
Cohen begins the profile talking about the “beautiful” 26-year-old who has a “catwalk way” before going on to explain that to understand Robbie you need to understand Australia which is a “throwback” country with “throwback people”.
The US feminist and writer Roxane Gay said Cohen had a “hard-on” for Robbie amid a stream of less publishable criticisms of the piece.
He is 70 and handsome, not in that otherworldly, catwalk way, but in the kind of way that makes you want to drown kittens.
Writer Rich Cohen was slammed for his voyeuristic and freakish descriptions, saying The Legend of Tarzan star Robbie was “sexy and composed even while naked but only in character” and belittling her home town as a place where “a dingo really will eat your baby”. “The sooner you do it, the sooner you can stop doing it”, she continues, adding that there isn’t really a way to prepare for it.
“In his opening paragraph, Cohen describes Robbie as, “. blonde but dark at the roots.
“There’s a thing in Australia called tall-poppy syndrome”, she says.
Among the musings of an author who has clearly never set foot in Australia was the description of Robbie’s hometown as where “a dingo really will eat your baby”.
And he does it in a way that many people on social media have noted is a little creepy, sexist and also manages to insult, well, most of Australia. The Australian beauty worked with dialect coach Tim Monich, but she already had a foundation because she had spent two years trying to flawless the American accent.
Literally every Australian’s reaction to Hollywood ever. “Two years learning about the muscles in your mouth and bone structures and resonators and all that”, she said.
“We sat for a moment in silence”. He makes this point again by tying her to Audrey Hepburn, saying that Robbie possesses “a kind of lost purity, what we’ve given up for the excitement of a crass, freewheeling, sex-saturated culture”. “In other words, it’s just like America, only different”.
Here’s how people reacted to the ridiculed Vanity Fair article.
As Australian actor Josh Lawson puts it, Robbie, a bright star on the rise, deserves better.
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After Rich transcribes a lengthy and boring conversation they have about sex scenes, Robbie leaves the table (to vomit, presumably) and Rich stares at her butt.
