Margot Robbie is trying again at her full-frontal nude scene in The Wolf of Wall Street.
While showing on the Talking Pictures podcast with Turner Classic Movies’ Ben Mankiewicz, the actress mirrored on starring within the 2013 Martin Scorsese movie alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. The function — as Naomi Lapaglia, the spouse to DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort — marked Robbie’s breakout movie function when she was in her early 20s.
In the film, Robbie has a full-frontal nude scene, one she stated she pushed for even when Scorsese provided another possibility.
She recalled Scorsese suggesting she might cowl up, saying, “Maybe you will be carrying a gown should you’re not comfy.” However, Robbie didn’t really feel that may be true to the character.
“But that’s not what she would do in that scene. The entire level is that she’s going to come back out fully bare — that’s the cardboard she’s taking part in proper now,” Robbie stated.
Robbie additionally took issues in her personal fingers throughout her audition for the movie. In one of many scenes, Robbie stated it ended with DiCaprio’s character telling her to kiss him — however the actress had different concepts.
“I assumed, ‘I might kiss Leonardo DiCaprio proper now, and that may be superior. I can’t wait to inform all of my mates this.’ And then I assumed ‘nah’ and simply walloped him within the face,” Robbie stated. “It was useless silent for what felt like an eternity however was most likely three seconds.”
Scorsese and DiCaprio authorised of the selection, bursting into laughter.
“They simply burst out laughing. Leo and Marty had been laughing so laborious. They stated, ‘That was nice,’” Robbie stated. She additionally laughed whereas recalling pondering, “You’re going to get arrested, I’m fairly positive that’s assault or battery. Not solely will you by no means work once more, really you’ll go to jail for this, you fool. And additionally why did you must hit him so laborious? You ought to have performed it lighter.”
Despite the movie being her breakout function, Robbie recalled feeling like she was simply going to be “one small half on this large circus”
Citing Titanic because the movie that all the time makes her cry, and she or he listens to the movie’s theme music if she must cry in scene, Robbie stated it was nearly a life imitating artwork second as she recalled listening to the music to arrange to movie an emotional scene with DiCaprio.
“There was the large, loopy scene after I ask for a divorce and stuff. And Kate Winslet came around set, to go to Leo that day,” Robbie remembered. “I used to be within the room subsequent to them, listening to the Titanic soundtrack attempting to remain in unhappy, teary mode. And then I noticed Kate Winslet and Leo stroll previous. It was very surreal.”
The Wolf of Wall Street went on to obtain 5 Academy Award nominations.
Elsewhere within the podcast, Robbie additionally appeared again on starring in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, a movie that she nonetheless isn’t positive why audiences didn’t like.
