Los Angeles, Feb. 11 -- Margot Robbie has revisited an unsettling episode from the nascent stages of her career, disclosing that she sharply confronted a male co-actor who presented her a book advocating restrained eating.

During a recent conversation with Charli xcx for Complex, the Oscar-nominated actress and producer recalled a male cast member from a past project gifting her a book titled 'French Women Don't Get Fat', Mireille Guiliano's 2004 bestseller about eating less food.

"Very, very early in my career, an actor I worked with, a male actor, gave me a book called French Women Don't Get Fat, and it was essentially a book telling you to eat less," she said. "And I was like, whoa, fuck you, dude."While she declined to identify the in...