Margot Robbies Shocking Change for Neighbours Role

has shared how her accent was 'too Aussie' - even for the Australian soap opera, Neighbours. 

The Queensland-born actress revealed that producers asked her to tone down her ocker twang when she won the role of Donna Freedman on the series back in 2008.

'I haven't done really an Aussie accent since I was on Neighbours,' she said in a recent chat with .

'This isn't as …my accent used to be so strong.'

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'I was like, I couldn't hear that I had a bad accent, so I was like, "what do ya mean",' the 35-year-old joked, while demonstrating her natural accent.

The star explained that she worked with a dialect coach to tone down her natural speech.    

'They were like, "you're just awful to listen to. We're going to send you off to work with this woman, and it'll round out your accent",' Margot said.

Prior to making the jump to Hollywood, Robbie's profile grew considerably thanks to her work on Australian television, and especially on the long-running soap opera Neighbours, which . 

Robbie's initial run on the series was from 2008 through 2011, when she appeared on more than 350 episodes. 

She also had guest spots on the Australian shows City Homicide and Review With Myles Barlow in 2008, but she has primarily focused on film acting since her 2013 breakthrough.

Her latest major film is a new adaptation of Emily Brontë's iconic novel Wuthering Heights.  

It comes after Margot revealed the outrageous gift one of her male co-stars gave her early on in her career in a new interview amid the release of her .

During a video interview for Complex with Charli XCX — who wrote and performed original songs for the Emerald Fennell–directed romance — for Complex, Robbie revealed that the unnamed actor gave her a book that she thought essentially told her to 'eat less.'