She told the Independent, “I honestly don’t see it at all.” “For example, it’s flattering to be compared to Margot Robbie, but I’d prefer that people focus on the professions that we’re both doing rather than how we appear.”
Mackey expressed his dissatisfaction with the continuous comparisons made about persons in the entertainment industry. “Hollywood produces people that look the same, and we love to categorise people,” Mackey added. “It’s just what we do as a species; we’ve always classified people.”
Robbie has also been a victim of the mix-up, revealing to BBC Radio 1 that she has been mistaken for Mackey in public.
“Someone approached me when I was eating a burger,” Robbie explained. “And they were like, ‘I adored you in Sex Education, that programme is so fantastic, we just began watching it,'” says the author. “I’m very sorry, but it’s not me,” I said.
Although it appears that both girls are in on the joke, we have yet to see them in the same room (the internet would probably explode).
