Margot Robbie appeared on the “Talking Pictures” podcast with TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz and revealed that her “Wolf of Wall Road” 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 serious about how “everybody goes to see this.”
“[Scorsese] stated, ‘Perhaps you could be sporting a gown if you happen to’re not snug.’ However 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 fully bare—that’s the cardboard she’s enjoying proper now.”
Robbie took issues into her personal fingers throughout loads of the making of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which served as her breakout movie position. As an example, the scenes for her audition with DiCaprio ended with their characters kissing, however she determined to slap him as an alternative.
“I assumed, ‘I may kiss Leonardo DiCaprio proper now, and that may be superior. I can’t wait to inform all of my associates this.’ After which I assumed 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 have 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 likewise why did it’s a must to hit him so exhausting? You must have performed it lighter.”
“The Wolf of Wall Road” was Robbie’s first main movie position and opened within the 2013, the identical yr she had a smaller supporting position within the romance drama “About Time.” She’d reunite with co-star DiCaprio six years afterward Quentin Tarantino’s “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Take heed to Robbie’s full interview on the “Talking Pictures” podcast here.
