Margot Robbie: Women today have similar conversations as in Tudor play

Margot Robbie: Women today have similar conversations as in Tudor playJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleYasmin RufoGetty ImagesMargot Robbie has become a co-producer of 1536 for the acclaimed play's West End transferAs rumours spread that Anne Boleyn, the English queen, is about to be executed, three working-class women in Essex sit around drinking, gossiping and wondering what it all means for them.That's the premise of 1536, the Tudor-set play that has arrived in London's West End with backing from Hollywood star Margot Robbie.The Barbie actor tells the BBC she first heard about the project years ago, when it was just a script "and everyone was telling me I'd be obsessed with it, and they were right".Written by Ava Pickett, the play reimagines one of the most famous moments in British history not through royalty or court politics, but through the eyes of ordinary women navigating fear, friendship and a world becoming increasingly hostile towards women.Despite being set almost 500 years ago, many of the themes feel strikingly familiar."It's set in 1536 but the conversations these women have are the same ones that women now are having," Robbie says. "I feel like I'm friends with these women and I know them."1536Tanya Reynolds, Siena Kelly and Liv Hill play the three women at the centre of the story That sense of familiarity was exactly what Pickett wanted audiences to feel. The idea for the play came from conversations she was having with her own friends about violence against women and the anxieties many women privately share with each other, the writer explains."I wanted to create characters that aren't incredibly brave or incredibly capable of changing the world around them, but instead they are just three normal women experiencing a rising tide of misogyny."A lot of us are having similar conversations with our mates where we think about how terrifying it feels to be a woman right...