Margot Robbie speaks up about that 'weird' Vanity Fair profile

Margot Robbie is the biggest rising star of the summer, so it seems unavoidable that she would have all manner of flowery magazine profiles written about her. Cue the Vanity Fair article by Rich Cohen, which took the laudatory nature of profiles to a whole other level.

The now-infamous article was widely criticized  on the Internet, with many calling it "creepy," sexist and insulting to Australia -- even spawning a hysterical parody by The New Yorker. Check out the beginning of the article below, in all its skeevy glory:

America is so far gone, we have to go to Australia to find a girl next door. In case you’ve missed it, her name is Margot Robbie. She is 26 and beautiful, not in that otherworldly, catwalk way but in a minor knock-around key, a blue mood, a slow dance… She is tall but only with the help of certain shoes. She can be sexy and composed even while naked but only in character. As I said, she is from Australia. To understand her, you should think about what that means.

Robbie, until now, had remained silent through the publication of the article and the uproar around it. But on the Australian Network Ten's The Project, she finally spoke up about the Vanity Fair article, agreeing that it was "really weird."

"I remember doing the interview and being like, 'That was an odd one,'" Robbie said. "Then I read it and I was like, 'Yeah, the tone of this is really weird, I don’t really know what he’s trying to get at or play at.' But I didn’t expect it’d be like an uproar about it, at all."

She added, “But I’ve read far more offensive, far more sexist, insulting, derogatory, disgusting things on a daily basis. Maybe I’m desensitized to it now.”

She was pleased with the response to the article, proclaiming, "Don’t mess with the Aussies."