Margot Robbie Says Wolf of Wall Street Full-Frontal Nude Scene Was Her Decision
Margot Robbie Reveals How Her Full-Frontal Nude Scene in the Wolf of Wall Street Happened
Margot Robbie has always been in the driver’s seat.
While reflecting on her breakout role in The Wolf of Wall Street, the 34-year-old revealed that it was her decision to appear fully nude in a scene in which she seduces Leonardo DiCaprio’s character.
“That’s not what she would do in that scene,” Margot said on the Talking Pictures podcast in response to director Martin Scorsese‘s offer for her to wear a robe in the scene. “The whole point is that she’s going to come out completely naked—that’s the card she’s playing.”
And that’s not the only out of the box decision that Margot made while working on the project. While auditioning for the 2013 film, the Australian actress made a creative decision that she worried might get her in trouble.
“I thought, I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now, and that would be awesome,” she recalled. “I can’t wait to tell all of my friends this. And then I thought…nah. And just walloped him in the face.”
The Barbie star remembered initially being nervous about how Leonardo and Martin would react to the bold move.
“It was dead silence for what felt like an eternity but was probably three seconds,” she shared. “Then they just burst out laughing. Leo and Marty were laughing so hard, they said, ‘That was great.'”
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Margot continued, “I was thinking, ‘I’m going to get arrested, I’m pretty sure that’s assault, 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.'”
The Babylon alum has previously been open about some of the ways she caught her costar off-guard while filming the movie.
“We were positioned while they lit around us in one scene, and I kind of pushed Leo’s head to one side and told him he was in my light and he moved out of [it],” she told Manhattan magazine in 2015. “He was so incredulous that I had told him to get out of my light, and physically moved him out of the way, he was like, ‘Did you really just do that?'”
“I don’t think anyone has told him to get out of their light in quite some time,” she added. “He seemed extremely [shocked], but it was kind of funny.”
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