Margot Robbie made the creative decision to slap Leonardo DiCaprio during your audition for “The Wolf of Wall Street” instead of kissing him, as the “Barbie” star revealed.
During a recent episode of the “Talking Pictures” podcast, Robbie said she realized shortly afterwards that slapping her famous co-star was actually a form of assault that could get her arrested.
Fortunately, DiCaprio and the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, loved it and not only did she get the role, she also walked away handcuff-free.
“It wasn’t in the script,” Robbie said of the slap, referring to the “throwing water in the face” scene she was reading with DiCaprio during her audition. She said that at one point, after they were improvising, DiCaprio “went back to the script and the last line was ‘come here and kiss me.’”.
“In my head I thought, I could totally kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now. It would be incredible. I can’t wait to tell all my friends about this,” Robbie recalled. “And then I thought, ‘No.’ I just slapped him in the face,” he added, laughing.
According to Robbie, there was absolute silence in the room right after that for what, to her, seemed like an eternity, until Scorsese and DiCaprio “burst out laughing” and validated her by saying “that was great!”
Still, Robbie said he panicked. She thought to herself, “You’re going to be arrested. I’m pretty sure this is physical assault. Not only will you never work again, you’ll actually go to jail for it.”
Robbie played DiCaprio’s wife in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” a role that became her breakout hit when the film debuted in theaters in 2013. The film also received five Oscar nominations at the time.
Needless to say, Robbie was never arrested for slapping DiCaprio. Instead, she went on to have a prosperous career in Hollywood as an Oscar-nominated actress and producer.
This content was originally published in Margot Robbie says she thought she would go to prison after auditioning with DiCaprio; understand on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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