His coolness became key to in the end winning the heart of the self-described “last single gal,” who gave birth to their son in October 2024, months after the tip of the Barbenheimer awards season hoopla.

They first met in 2013 when Ackerley served as third assistant director on the WWII-technology romance Suite Française, in which Robbie had a supporting position. She bonded with him and several diverse crew participants, and when she rolled again through London to enact press for The Wolf of Wall Aspect street early the next year, all of them determined to receive a build collectively.

It became whereas sharing a three-bed room dwelling in Clapham with 5 roommates, including future industry companions Kerr (Robbie's mate since childhood) and McNamara (2d AD on Suite Française), that Ackerley and Robbie's friendship fleet blossomed into extra.

They kept it a secret before all the pieces, Robbie later told The Guardian, “because we weren't in actuality taking it significantly.”

And then, the newlyweds were kicked out of the fold.

“It became our roommates who told us, 'You guys had a wedding. It be indispensable to reside on your have now,'” Robbie told The Guardian. “It truly hadn't took place to us. We were, be pleased, 'Hmm? What? Appropriate the 2 of us? That's gonna be atypical.' And the main time we were in a dwelling, the 2 of us, it became atypical. Good. Nonetheless we uncared for having heaps of of us spherical.”

Obvious sufficient, when she spoke to Vogue within the summertime of 2019, the Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood actress divulged that her older brother, moreover a cousin and her husband, were living with her and Ackerley.

“It's a frequent theme, isn't it?” Robbie notorious. “I despise—despise—being by myself.”

Conclude quarters don't bother her, both. After Barbie wrapped in 2022, she and Ackerley took the British Pullman from London after which overnighted on the Orient Specific from Paris to Venice. Then, on a outing to Japan, they rode the seven-car Seven Stars all over the island of Kyushu.

“All I are making an are attempting to enact,” Robbie outlined to Vogue, “is reside on a put collectively.”

Eating additionally factors heavily into their relationship, both in every other country (they waited in line for three and a half hours to sample udon carbonara in Tokyo) and at dwelling, the build she tends to live a long way flung from the kitchen.

“My husband is an efficient attempting cook dinner,” Robbie raved on a February episode of the Table Manners podcast. “He in most cases is a chef, he’s so appropriate form. We’re be pleased a excellent match.”

Nonetheless she didn't marry him for his knife abilities, noting that she didn't even know he became a huge cook dinner till after they had swapped vows.

“He spends two days making a spaghetti bolognese,” she outlined. “He does a three-day fried rice with Korean short ribs. He does steak better than any restaurant I've ever been to!”

As for her have culinary acumen, Robbie pointed to the time she served undercooked ham to her in-legal guidelines one Christmas within the U.K.

“I watched his grandma almost put a uncooked allotment of pork in her mouth,” the actress recalled. “She could maybe well perhaps also rating died so I slapped it out of her hand!”

Robbie does, on the alternative hand, rob pride in being huge at spending time with Ackerley, seamlessly mixing industry with pleasure.

“I'm a huge advocate of doing industry with your partner,” she told Porter in 2018. “Being married is in actuality basically the most pleasurable ever, existence bought formula extra enjoyable by hook or by crook. I rating a responsibility being someone's wife, I are making an are attempting to be better.”

At the equal time, Robbie told Vogue Australia, they were “soundless most attention-grabbing mates and roommates, so nothing's in actuality modified in any appreciate.”

Different than that pear-fashioned diamond ring, which she wore on weekends. “I’m able to't clearly put on it all over the week after I'm working,” she mentioned. “I don't are making an are attempting to lose it on put.”

If she and Ackerley rating to be apart, they abide by a three-weeks-at-most rule. “Even though we both must cruise to a country in-between the build we both are for one night,” Robbie told Porter, “we'll enact it after which cruise again to work the subsequent day. And we negate all day, each and each day on the telephone.”

No longer to point out, communication is key within the occasion you're making ancient previous collectively.

Nonetheless they were certain to agree with it occur.

“We spent time at Mattel headquarters,” Robbie told the Recent York Occasions, “we went into their factories, we watched them agree with a doll and we talked to of us who agree with them. They knew we were coming from a build of respecting the emblem.”

She and Ackerley additionally had long conversations with Mattel executives as the protectors of the doll's extra special characterize combed through Gerwig's script line by line.

Nonetheless whereas Ackerley became a hands-on producer, he became satisfied for Robbie to be the face of Barbie in extra ways than one.

“I judge this'll be the [marketing campaign] they enact dissertations on,” Ackerley told The Upcoming at the film's London premiere, placing out with fellow producer David Heyman whereas Robbie became belle of the ball. And he acknowledged that his wife and Ryan Gosling made for a “huge aggregate” as Barbie and Ken.