Margot Robbie appeared on the “Talking Pictures” podcast with TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz and revealed that her “Wolf of Wall Street” director Martin Scorsese truly supplied her the possibility to not seem absolutely nude within the movie. Robbie has a full frontal scene as Naomi Lapaglia, the bombshell and no-nonsense spouse to Leonardo DiCaprio’s felony Jordan Belfort. The actor was in her early 20s on the time and wasn’t even interested by how “everybody goes to see this.”
“[Scorsese] stated, ‘Maybe you could be sporting a gown in the event you’re not comfy.’ But that’s not what she would do in that scene,” Robbie stated of her character and making the selection herself to go full frontal. “The entire level is that she’s going to return out utterly bare—that’s the cardboard she’s taking part in proper now.”
Robbie took issues into her personal palms throughout loads of the making of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which served as her breakout movie function. For occasion, the scenes for her audition with DiCaprio ended with their characters kissing, however she determined to slap him as an alternative.
“I believed, ‘I may kiss Leonardo DiCaprio proper now, and that will be superior. I can’t wait to inform all of my associates this.’ And then I believed nah. And simply walloped him within the face,” Robbie stated. “It was lifeless silent for what felt like an eternity however was in all probability three seconds.”
“They simply burst out laughing. Leo and Marty had been laughing so exhausting. They stated, ‘That was nice,’” Robbie remembered. I used to be pondering, ‘I’m going to get arrested, I’m fairly certain that’s assault or battery. Not solely will you by no means work once more, truly you’ll go to jail for this, you fool.’ And additionally why did it’s a must to hit him so exhausting? You ought to have performed it lighter.”
“The Wolf of Wall Street” was Robbie’s first main movie function and opened within the 2013, the identical yr she had a smaller supporting function within the romance drama “About Time.” She’d reunite with co-star DiCaprio six years afterward Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Listen to Robbie’s full interview on the “Talking Pictures” podcast right here.
