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Bev Lyons

Mary Queen of Scots actress Margot Robbie bathtub video goes viral

Hollywood actress Margot Robbie went viral after her bathtub movie scene from The Big Short was used to explain a stock market trend.

Australian Mary Queen of Scots actress Margot, 30, whose parents are both of Scottish heritage, got millions of views across the world after her famous bathtub scene from The Big Short was used to explain the current trend of short term gambling on the stock market.

Margot made a cameo appearance in the tub with champagne in 2015 film The Big Short as she explained all about big time Wall Street trader Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed securities.

In this latest trending video, Margot's head has been replaced by that of Australian comedian Trevor Noah who explained all about the current Wall Street reports in a hilarious video.

Margot Robbie trends after Trevor Noah explains Wall Street (The Daily Show/Twitter)

In it, he explained: "Basically, there’s a group of people on Reddit who don’t use the stock market to bet, they use it to gamble.

"And yeah, that’s what a lot of serious investors do too, but these guys on Reddit are more honest about it and they love to troll the people who aren’t.

"So there's a store called GameStop that sells video games. Not a great business to be in since games can be downloaded now, which is why the serious investors decided to short GameStop, which means to be against it.

"But the Redditors are gamers who have a semi ironic love for the store so they started making memes encouraging each other to punish the serious people by buying worthless GameStop stocks."

Now, instead of failing, the GameStop shop is 'succeeding wildly'

Viral Wall Street tweet featuring Margot Robbie and Trevor Noah (The Daily Show/Twitter)

Trevor added: "Not really, of course. Not as a business. But come on. Stocks are never real. The serious people have already lost $5 billion, and some giant hedge funds have gone bankrupt. Got it? Good. Now, let's get out of Margot Robbie's bathroom before she gets home and asks me what I'm doing here. The last time she caught me here was a bit awkward."

The GameStop fiasco has sent shares up by 1,700 per cent in four weeks, with three of its largest individual investors gaining more than three million dollars in net worth.

In a snub to 'greedy' investors, the Redditors also cheekily hyped up shares for theatre chain AMC, BlackBerry, Nokia and others who would usually suffer at this time.

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