Baring all of it.
Margot Robbie has revealed that her full-frontal nude scene in “The Wolf of Wall Street” was fully her thought.
Robbie, 34, spoke about making the 2013 Martin Scorsese film throughout an interview with Ben Mankiewicz, 57, for his Turner Basic Films podcast “Talking Pictures.” The Oscar-nominated actress mentioned that Scorsese, 82, urged she would possibly wish to put on a gown somewhat than be totally bare within the scene, however she turned him down.
“[Scorsese] said, ‘Maybe you can be wearing a robe if you’re not comfortable.’ But that’s not what she would do in that scene,” Robbie mentioned.
The “Barbie” actress and producer, who was solely 22 when she filmed “The Wolf of Wall Street,” performed Naomi Lapaglia, the straight-shooting vixen spouse of Jordan Belfort, the stock-trading con man performed by Leonardo DiCaprio, 50.
“The whole point is that she’s going to come out completely naked — that’s the card she’s playing right now,” Robbie added of Naomi’s full-frontal nudity.
The nude scene was not the one time the Aussie actress confirmed chutzpah in entrance of Scorsese and DiCaprio. From the very starting, she proved she was greater than comfy making daring selections.
Robbie additionally instructed Mankiewicz that she slapped DiCaprio throughout her audition, although the script known as for her to kiss him.
“I thought, ‘I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now, and that would be awesome. I can’t wait to tell all of my friends this.’ And then I thought, ‘Nah.’ And just walloped him in the face,” Robbie recalled. “It was dead silent for what felt like an eternity but was probably three seconds.”
“[DiCaprio and Scorsese] just burst out laughing. Leo and Marty were laughing so hard. They said, ‘That was great,’” she mentioned.
“I was thinking, ‘I’m going to get arrested, I’m pretty sure that’s assault or battery. Not only will you never work again, actually you will go to jail for this, you idiot. And also why did you have to hit him so hard? You should have done it lighter.’”
And whereas showing nude was her thought, Robbie has beforehand mentioned she wanted some liquid braveness when it got here time to movie.
“I had a couple shots of tequila before that scene because I was very nervous. Very, very nervous,” she remembered throughout a 2023 interview.
The actress additionally shared that it was her thought for her and DiCaprio’s character to have intercourse yet one more time earlier than she asks him for a divorce.
“We were a couple of months into the shoot at that point,” she mentioned in 2022. “The tone had been set that it was a bit of a free for all. It was like, the crazier you are, the more Marty will like it. And the more screen time you’re going to get.”
Of working with Scorsese, she added, “We spoke all the time. I’d sit at video village and he would tell stories about the Mafia and old film stars, but he didn’t actually give direction.”
