More than 10 years after her breakout efficiency in The Wolf of Wall Street, Margot Robbie is taking credit score for her full-frontal debut.
Although director Martin Scorsese stated she may put on a gown if it made her extra snug, the 3x Oscar nominee revealed it was her thought to strip down utterly nude for one memorable scene of her character Naomi seducing rich stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio).
“That’s not what she would do in that scene,” she defined on the Talking Pictures podcast. “The entire level is that she’s going to come back out utterly bare—that’s the cardboard she’s enjoying.”
Robbie wasn’t afraid to go for it within the presence of Hollywood titans like Scorsese and DiCaprio, noting she made the inventive choice to slap the latter in her remaining audition, when the scene referred to as for a kiss.
“I believed, I may kiss Leonardo DiCaprio proper now, and that may be superior. I can’t wait to inform all of my pals this. And then I believed… nah. And simply walloped him within the face,” she recalled.
Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, director/producer Martin Scorsese on the set of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). (Mary Cybulski/Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
“It was useless silence for what felt like an eternity however was in all probability three seconds,” added Robbie. “Then they only burst out laughing. Leo and Marty have been laughing so exhausting, they stated ‘that was nice.’ I used to be considering, I’m going to get arrested, I’m fairly positive that’s assault, battery.”
The actress imagined berating, “‘Not solely will you by no means work once more, really you’ll go to jail for this, you fool. And additionally why did it’s important to hit him so exhausting? You ought to have accomplished it lighter.’”
Robbie beforehand revealed that she additionally got here up with the concept for Naomi and Jordan to have intercourse one final time earlier than she tells him she needs a divorce, noting that Scorsese was straightforward to speak to about instructed script revisions.
“We have been a few months into the shoot at that time,” she recalled in 2022. “The tone had been set that it was a little bit of a free for all. It was just like the crazier you might be, the extra Marty will prefer it. And the extra display time you’re going to get.”
Robbie added, “We spoke on a regular basis. I’d sit at video village, and he would inform tales in regards to the Mafia and outdated movie stars, however he didn’t really give path.”
