Australia isn’t all huge snakes and naked prime ministers — it’s also a fertile breeding ground for Hollywood talent. The Land Down Under has produced multiple Academy Award-nominated actors, including Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Heath Ledger, and Russell Crowe, as well as a host of talented directors. (Mad Max: Fury Road‘s George Miller losing to The Revenant‘s Alejandro G. Iñárritu remains a crime worthy of being shipped to Australia in the early 1800s.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hasn’t acknowledged noted Harry Potter geek Margot Robbie yet, but when (not if, when — if the Joker gets an Oscar, why not Harley Quinn?) they do, I hope it’s for a movie where she gets to say “shithouse.”
Vanity Fair‘s horny profile of the Legend of Tarzan and Suicide Squad star was not great, but some good came out of it. Robbie was asked to define 50 Australian slang terms, including “chockers,” “come a guster,” “grommet,” “bottle-o,” and “fanny” (it means something different there). The video’s only four minutes long, but I could listen to Robbie, or any Australian, say the word “dunny” for hours. It’s like Ariel singing about “whozits” and “whatzits,” but real. My one criticism: there’s not enough creative swearing. I’ll give Robbie 9,000 dollarydoos to go off on those f*ck-knuckle “chazwazzas.”
