Margot Robbie Slap Leonardo DiCaprio at an Audition
Margot Robbie confessed that when she auditioned for The Wolf Of Wall Street she was so nervous that she ended up slapping Leonardo DiCaprio hard, which impressed the actor rather than annoyed him.
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, whose latest
issue features the 24-year-old Australian actress, Margot Robbie recounted
the context of the incident with the Oscar nominee.
As she recounted, at the time of the audition, she only
thought that she had 30 seconds to impress Leonardo DiCaprio and director
Martin Scorsese, and as part of her audition, “I start screaming and he
screams at me. He is really scary, I could barely keep up.”
It is then that following her line, Leonardo DiCaprio tells her
that “you must be happy to have a husband like me. Now come here and give me
a kiss."
"So I walk up really close to his face and then I'm like 'maybe
I should kiss him, when do I get another chance to kiss Leo Dicaprio?'" he
yelled 'fuck you!', that wasn't in the script at all. The room went silent
and I froze,” she recounted.
Ella Margot Robbie believed that she was going to be
arrested or that she would never work in Hollywood again for slapping
Leonardo DiCaprio, but the opposite happened.
"Instead of being furious, both Martin Scorsese and Leonardo
DiCaprio burst out laughing," she added, before revealing that the actor
asked her to hit him again.
Margot Robbie was finally chosen to play Naomi Lapaglia, the
second wife of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) in The Wolf Of Wall
Street.
Prior to this experience, the actress had worked on
Australian soap operas and appeared in the short-lived television drama
Pan-Am and Richard Curtis's About Time.
After The Wolf Of Wall Street, Margot Robbie's career
skyrocketed. This week she premiered Focus in the United States, a film in
which she stars alongside Will Smith. Additionally, she was chosen to play
Harley Quinn in DC's Suicide Squad.
