Margot Robbie appeared on the “Speaking Footage” podcast with TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz and revealed that her “Wolf of Wall Avenue” director Martin Scorsese truly provided her the possibility to not seem totally nude within the movie. Robbie has a full frontal scene as Naomi Lapaglia, the bombshell and no-nonsense spouse to Leonardo DiCaprio’s prison 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, ‘Possibly you will be sporting a gown for those who’re not comfy.’ 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 come back out fully bare—that’s the cardboard she’s enjoying proper now.”
Robbie took issues into her personal fingers throughout plenty of the making of “The Wolf of Wall Avenue,” which served as her breakout movie position. For example, 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 pals this.’ After which 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 positive 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 you must hit him so exhausting? It is best to have executed it lighter.”
“The Wolf of Wall Avenue” was Robbie’s first main movie position and opened within the 2013, the identical 12 months she had a smaller supporting position within the romance drama “About Time.” She’d reunite with co-star DiCaprio six years in a while Quentin Tarantino’s “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Take heed to Robbie’s full interview on the “Speaking Footage” podcast right here.