Episode · SmartLess · 2026-02-16
Margot Robbie on SmartLess: every book mentioned
We go incogneets this week with hockey-fan Margot Robbie. A new bronzer, an Aussie Mafia, slapping Leo, and much more!
Margot Robbie discussed Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Will Arnett recommended The Magicians by Lev Grossman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.
Discussed“like we had a collection of videos and I'd just watch them to death and then I'd recreate them and like I was just Harry Potter was a big a big I was obsessed with the books.”
Where to get it
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The Magicians
The Magicians by Lev Grossman is a contemporary fantasy novel that follows a group of young adults discovering that magic is real, combining dark themes with a meta-fictional approach to traditional fantasy tropes.
Recommended“Have you Have you ever read a book series called The Magicians? It's like this like grownup dark Nani version of Nani.”
Where to get it
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a classic Gothic novel examining the destructive, all-consuming passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across the bleak Yorkshire moors.
Discussed“Then you've got, you know, some of the industry's best designers, cinematographers, production designers, costume designer, all that kind of stuff. You know, we we had all the elements.”
Where to get it
