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Margot Robbie turns 32 on July 2. The Australian actor is known for films like Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey. In a 2016 interview, she spoke about what it was really like filming intimate scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio in one of her most famous films, Wolf Of Wall Street.

Margot Robbie made a mark in the 2013 film The Wolf Of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese. Since then, she’s held onto the spotlight as she continues working in films like Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey, where she played Harley Quinn. Margot celebrates her 32nd birthday on Saturday. In an old interview, the actor spoke about one of her most famous roles – Naomi Lapaglia. She revealed what it was really like filming intimate scenes with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, admitting it was ‘awkward.’ Read more: The Wolf of Wall Street means business

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Margot revealed that her first proper on-screen sex scene was with Leonardo. Getting up close and personal with the actor was not easy for Margot, who made her Hollywood debut with The Wolf Of Wall Street as the wife of Leo's character Jordan Belfort. She said that acting in a love scene in front of ‘tons of people’ was uncomfortable.

In a 2016 interview with Vanity Fair, Margot spoke about filming the ‘awkward’ scenes with Leo. “I’d done scenes where it’s leading into sex or sex has just finished. But I hadn’t done a start-to-finish sex scene like I did in Wolf Of Wall Street. That was my first. Tons of people are watching you. It’s so awkward. It’s just like, this is what you need to do – get on with it. The sooner you do it, the sooner you can stop doing it.”

In an older interview, Margot also opened up about the difficulty of pretending to make love on a huge pile of cash. She said after a scene, her back was ‘covered in a thousand red scratches’.

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I got a million paper cuts on my back from all that money. It's not as glamorous as it sounds… maybe real money is a bit softer, but the fake money is like paper, ” she told The Daily Beast in 2014.

Margot stars as the iconic doll, Barbie, in her next film with actor Ryan Gosling. He plays her boyfriend Ken. The Warner Bros. movie directed by Greta Gerwig is currently being filmed in Los Angeles. Barbie is scheduled to be released in July 2023.For Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio more than lived up to his reputation in The Wolf of Wall Street. So much so that she experienced a phenomenon with DiCaprio that she never experienced with any other co-star.

Most new-comers might find it nerve-racking to work alongside megastar Leonardo DiCaprio. But when Robbie was first tapped to audition for Wolf of Wall Street, she didn’t have time to focus on her future co-star. All she honed in on was delivering a good audition.

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“I was more nervous about my audition so I didn’t have time to worry about, ‘Oh I’m about to meet Leo and Marty.’ It was all so last minute that I didn’t have time to be nervous about the whole process. That was probably a good thing in hindsight, ” she said in an interview with Grazia.

“He’s an incredible actor, everyone knows that, but he’s also a really awesome down to earth person so it was a really lovely experience. I was very fortunate, ” she added.

Some of Robbie’s personal time with DiCaprio included watching Youtube videos about endangered species. DiCaprio has always been an advocate of maintaining the health of the planet. Although the Suicide Squad star admired this side of DiCaprio, she wasn’t exactly thrilled watching those videos with the star.

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“I was so bored, ” she once told The Globe and Mail. “But he’s so passionate about it. He’s a really cool guy.”

When it came to getting back to work, Robbie confided that there were many times she was floored by DiCaprio’s performance. So much so that at times the actor forgot she was even in the movie.

“He’s honestly the most talented actor I’ve ever come across. I really don’t know how to explain it, ” she added. “He’s so believable that I forget I’m acting when I act opposite him. I’ve never experienced that with anyone else.”

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Seeing Margot come in and read that scene with me I just knew I was witnessing a dynamic presence in cinema that was about to be, ” he once said said on

. “[Martin] Scorsese and myself were blown away by how much she gave back to the scene, fought back and we both immediately knew she was going to have an incredible career.”

Robbie once recalled a time where she temporarily blinded her co-star thanks to doing too many takes. The scene in question had Robbie repeatedly throwing a glass of water in DiCaprio’s face. But the Oscar-winner’s commitment to the scene seemed to have stopped him from telling Robbie about how the take was affecting him.

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“It was like, and this is going to sound really bizarre, some how got up inside his eyelids and I was temporarily blinding him, ” Robbie once said in an interview with LRM Online. “He didn’t tell me until like the fourth take. Every time he would be doing [hands hit the table] this and I was like God, he’s a good actor. And then by the 4th time he says you need to like throw it at my chin or something. I was like what’s wrong? He’s like I cannot see anything! I was like I’m so sorry, why didn’t you say anything!? Yea, we did that a lot of times. I felt really bad.”