Margot Robbie Wolf Of Wall Street We'Re Not Gonna Be Friends

Margot Robbie has undoubtedly been one of the most in-demand actors of the past decade. Since her star-making turn in director Martin Scorsese's 2013 fact-based crime drama The Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie has rocketed to superstardom, stealing the show as the eccentric supervillain Harley Quinn in 2016's Suicide Squad, and reprising the role for 2020's Birds of Prey and the reboot-slash-sequel The Suicide Squad in 2021.

On top of that, she has often been in awards season conversations, having earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for playing the title role in the 2017 Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as one of the alleged targets of sexual harassment by Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) in the 2019 fact-based drama Bombshell.

Adding to that a role as screen legend Sharon Tate in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 2019 revisionist Tinseltown comedy-drama Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, it's pretty safe to guess Robbie has made enough cash over the past decade to stuff away in her mattresses and pillowcases — safe and secure places, so long the bills stay there.

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In The Wolf of Wall Street, Margot Robbie joined a group of actors who filmed love scenes that they eventually regretted. Playing Naomi Lapaglia, the fictional second wife (via History vs. Hollywood) of millionaire stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), Robbie filmed several sensual scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio, including one where Naomi and Jordan made love on a bed of cash.

Like most film productions, fake cash was used in The Wolf of Wall Street, and as it turns out, the bills — produced by prolific movie moneymaker RJR Props (via CNN) — left Robbie with an unusual cautionary tale to tell. In a 2017 interview with The Daily Beast, Robbie exclaimed, I got a million paper cuts on my back from all that money! It's not as glamorous as it sounds. If anyone is ever planning on having sex on top of a pile of cash: don't.

One thing Robbie found out is that the texture of movie money is different from the real thing, and she found out what sort of damage such a difference can make with some shocking observations from people on the set.

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Maybe real money is a bit softer, but the fake money is like paper, and when I got up off the bed, I turned around to get my robe and everyone gasped, Robbie recalled during the interview. I said, 'What is it?' And they said, 'you look like you've been whipped a million times. Your back is covered in a thousand red scratches.'

Turns out, Margot Robbie's uncomfortable love scene with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio was one of many that stuck with the Australian actor long after the cameras stopped rolling. The Wolf of Wall Street star also revealed to The Daily Beast which scene was the most bonkers to film. The scene she pointed to is, arguably, one of the most memorable sequences in the 2013 Martin Scorsese-directed pic.

Every single scene was absolutely insane, Robbie replied when asked by The Daily Beast which scene was the wildest to commit to film. She continued, Definitely the Quaalude scene. I remember sitting there going, 'I will never, ever film a scene like this again.'

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For those folks who need their memories jogged, that once-in-a-lifetime scene — the Quaalude scene — occurs in the final act of The Wolf of Wall Street. At this point in the movie, Jordan drives out to his country club to make an important call. Unfortunately, the Qualuudes he and Donnie (Jonah Hill) took that he believed were expired were, in fact, still active. As the effects of the drug kick in, Jordan also realizes he's in serious trouble over his business dealings. Over the course of 10 minutes, a sequence unfolds wherein Jordan, now extremely high, has to crawl his way back to his car, drive home, yell at an equally high Donnie for double-crossing him, and then save Donnie after he starts choking on a piece of ham. Meanwhile, a pregnant Naomi is left to watch and worry. It's no wonder the scene left such a big impression on Robbie.

I'm sitting there [as Naomi], eight months pregnant, and Leo and Jonah are crawling around trying to strangle each other and I had to try not to laugh because they looked so ridiculous, Robbie shared. If you're curious, you can check out this infamous scene on YouTube right now.Aussie stunner Margot Robbie steals every scene she’s in as Leonardo DiCaprio's fiery, sexually adventurous wife in The Wolf of Wall Street. The actress dishes on her road to Hollywood and the Basic Instinct scene that wasn’t.

Margot Robbie knew she’d be a star. Five years ago, the then 18-year-old Australian soap actress told the student magazine, S-Press, “I’ve got big, big dreams for the future. I want to go to L.A. and be a massive actor over there.”

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Now, the blond Aussie stunner is heating up cinemas across the country as Naomi Lapaglia, the promiscuous, no-nonsense wife of shady stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), in Martin Scorsese’s bacchanal of sex, drugs, and machismo, The Wolf of Wall Street. Sporting a wild updo, convincing Long Island accent, and attitude to spare, Naomi’s like the sister from another mister of Jennifer Lawrence’s housewife scorned, Roslyn, in American Hustle. Whether she’s tempting Jordan with her legs spread open in their baby’s nursery or throwing a glass of water in his face and screaming at the top of her lungs, she commands the screen.

The fun, outspoken Robbie spoke to The Daily Beast about her breakthrough performance, why the film’s criticism is off-base, her humble beginnings at making sandwiches at Subway, and more.

How were you cast in the role of Naomi Lapaglia? There are rumors you beat out some heavy competition in Jessica Biel and Kristen Stewart.

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I truly don’t know to this day. I’m still completely confused, but extraordinarily grateful that I did. I did a self-tape in L.A. that got sent to Ellen Lewis [casting director] that got sent to Marty, and then he asked to see me in a room so I could do an in-person audition with him and Leo, and then they brought me back a week later and gave me the role in the room.

Some of the hardest scenes in the film. It was the throwing-water fight scene, the “What’s wrong, Daddy?” scene in the nursery—and a lot of it got cut out in the film. It was a lot more confronting and awkward to do in an audition, let me tell you. And I also did the first-date scene.

No, I was wearing flesh-colored underwear but there was a shot with a body double that was very much Basic Instinct—probably ten times worse than Basic Instinct—much to my relief.

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I wish I could say that I went out and partied, but I had to fly somewhere the next morning at like 5 a.m.—but I partied after that, don’t worry. I had celebratory drinks. But I was staying at my ex-boyfriend’s house in Bed-Stuy, and someone ended up getting shot on the street so there was police everywhere. It really wasn’t a celebratory night at all.

My sister’s your age, 23, and she was obsessed with Titanic. Were you, like every other young girl, crushing on Leo back then?

I was absolutely obsessed with Titanic—but not the movie, the actual boat. I’d draw diagrams of it and everything and theorized that if it was built a different way, it wouldn’t have sunk. But seeing the movie really traumatized me. It was the first sad movie I saw—when I was 8 years old—and it upset me so much I could never watch it again until two years ago. But, amongst my friends, everyone loves that movie. It’s a common quote among my friends and I that whenever it’s cold, we go to each other, “It’s so cold, Jack…” I had to stop myself from saying it because I’d be on the set of Wolf of Wall Street shivering and I was tempted to go, “It’s so cold, Jack…” but Leo is there sitting right next to me.

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Every single scene was absolutely insane. Definitely the Qualuude scene. I remember sitting there going, “I will never, ever film a scene like this again.” I’m sitting there eight months pregnant and Leo and Jonah are crawling around trying to strangle each other and I had to try not to laugh because they looked so ridiculous.

It’s funny because the first sex scene between your character and Leo’s, we think it’s going to be like the 4th of July, and then it’s just Womp. Is it supposed to symbolize how this “master of the universe” isn’t as big of a big shot as he thinks he is?

Or he’s just that attracted to “The Duchess” that he can’t last more than 11 seconds. Let’s go with that theory. [Laughs]

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Also, having sex on a pile of money is usually just a joke that people say about douchebags, but