“Honestly, she kind of set the bar,” Margot shared. “And then we just kept trying to meet the bar after that. She set the bar high.”
Indeed, the duo achieved that goal, with Margot—who is mom to a 15-month-old with husband Tom Ackerley— previously admitting to feeling “codependent” with Jacob “quite quickly.”
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“I remember the first couple days on set, he would just be like, always in the vicinity of where I was, but in a corner watching,” the Wolf of Wall Street alum recalled during an interview with Fandango earlier this month. “On the third day, I found myself starting to look around to see where he was. I was like, ‘Well obviously he’s going to be somewhere close by. Where is he right now?”
Noting that she was “unnerved and unmoored” by his absence, Margot added, “I felt quite lost. Like a kid without their blanket or something. I was like, ‘Where is he?’”
For his part, Jacob emphasized that their bond is a “mutual obsession” as he stated, “I was enamored by her.”
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