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Published 16:02 IST, May 5th 2020

Margot Robbie to learn banjo from Marcus Mumford amid COVID-19 lockdown

Margot Robbie is among the top stars in Hollywood with worldwide recognition. She will take on banjo classes from Carey Mulligan husband, Marcus Mumford.

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Coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people all around the globe. Several places are under lockdown and people are advised to stay at home. Celebrities are spending their quarantine time doing various things. Margot Robbie has decided to take up banjo lessons from Marcus Mumford while self-isolating at home.

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Margot Robbie to learn banjo from Marcus Mumford

In an interview with a magazine, Margot Robbie had a conversation with Carey Mulligan, in which Mulligan said her husband Marcus Mumford will be glad to teach Robbie banjo. The Suicide Squad star said that she went out to buy herself a banjo. She is learning French right now, too, and she thinks that now is the time and also because she has always wanted to play the banjo. Mulligan replied that she knows someone who could give Robbie lessons on FaceTime, hinting at her musician husband Mumford. Mulligan stated that he is really, really bored and he would 100 per cent give her lessons. She said that she would hook Robbie up.

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Margot Robbie was seeming to be delighted by the offer. She said that she would actually really love that. She thinks everyone is going to come out of this with a whole new perspective of life and a whole array of very bizarre hobbies. On the other hand, Carey Mulligan revealed that she is learning to knit. She said that she was prepping a job and they were going to start shooting in a couple of weeks. Mulligan feels like we are all going through shock and trying to readjust in lockdown. She just ordered knitting set from an online website so she could learn to knit. She stated that she thought ''This is the time.''

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Margot Robbie was last seen in Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. Directed by Cathy Yan it was a spin-off to Suicide Squad (2016). The film follows Robbie as Harley Quinn as she joins forces with other female heroes to save a girl from a crime lord. It has an ensemble cast of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, and Ewan McGregor. Birds of Prey received mix reviews from the audiences and failed to match the expectation at the box office.

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Margot Robbie will next appear as Harley Quinn in The Suicide Squad, a standalone sequel. Directed by James Gunn, it is the tenth film in the DC Extended Universe. The movie is scheduled to release in 2021.  

Updated 16:02 IST, May 5th 2020