Who Did Margot Robbie Play In Wolf Of Wall Street

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In an interview with Wonderland, the Australian actress opened up about her low self-esteem regarding the role of Jordan Belfort's wife Naomi - a character she explains was described in the script as “the hottest blonde ever” - in the 2013 film from Martin Scorsese.

It was so high-tempo sexy. I was acutely aware that the line in the screenplay was 'the hottest blonde ever', I'm clearly not the hottest blonde ever, ” she said.

The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)

, will next be seen playing ice skater Tonya Harding in forthcoming biographical drama I, Tonya which recently won rave reviews at TIFF (Toronto International Film festival).

The 32-year-old actress said she has already experiences job rejections because of her age. “Now I'm in my early thirties and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part? I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it, it's the way things are, ” she told Glamour.

On news that Maggie Gyllenhaal had been turned down for being ‘too old’, aged 37, to play a 55-year-old man’s partner: “It’s f***ing outrageous. It’s ridiculous. Honestly, it’s so annoying. And ’twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It’s so annoying.”

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Gyllenhaal revealed she was told by a Hollywood producer that she was too old, aged 37, to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man. “It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh, ” she said at the time.

Meryl Streep has helped fund an all-female screenwriters group called The Writer’s Lab to encourage more women to pen Hollywood scripts. She previously told Vogue in 2011: “Once women pass childbearing age they could only be seen as grotesque on some level.”

The actress said she thought Hollywood is “still completely s***” when it comes to treating women equally to men. ““When I was younger, I really did think we were on our way to a better world. And when I look at it now, it is in a worse state than I have known it, particularly for women, and I find that very disturbing and sad.”

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Banks said she was driven from acting to directing due to the lack of roles for older women in Hollywood. “[Industry sexism] drove me to direct for sure. I definitely was feeling that I was unfulfilled and a little bit bored by the things that were coming across my desk. I mean look at Gwyneth Paltrow who has her Oscar [for Shakespeare in Love] and played fifth banana to Iron Man, ” she told Deadline.

“I had never seen a 49-year-old, dark-skinned woman who is not a size 2 be a sexualised role in TV or film. I'm a sexual woman, but nothing in my career has ever identified me as a sexualised woman. I was the prototype of the ‘mommified’ role, ” she told The Hollywood Reporter.

The Lord of the Rings actress said she only get cast in roles where she is treated as a “second class citizen” at the age of 38. “When you’re in your teens or twenties, there is an abundance of ingenue parts which are exciting to play. But at [my age], you’re usually the wife or the girlfriend - a sort of second-class citizen. There are more interesting roles for women when they get a bit older, ” she told More magazine.

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The actress famously called out sexism on the red carpet at the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards. When a camera operator scanned her up and down, she said: “Do you do this to the guys?” In her Oscar acceptance speech for Blue Jasmine, she reminded the film industry that movies with leading women can still be successful. “And thank you to... those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the centre, are niche experiences. They are not -- audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”

Asked if she had ever encountered sexism in Hollywood, Page told The Guardian: ‘Oh my God, yeah! It's constant! It's how you're treated, it's how you're looked at, how you're expected to look in a photoshoot, it's how you're expected to shut up and not have an opinion, it's how you... If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.”

The actress says she refuses roles where she has to play the generic girlfriend, wife or sexy bombshell. It's very hard being a woman in a man's world, and I recognised it was a man's world even when I was a kid. It's an inequality and injustice that drove me crazy, and which I always spoke out against — and I've always been outspoken, ” she told Manhattan magazine.

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The actress spoke to ELLE about negotiating equal pay for the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel: This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

“All the reading, all the acting coaching, and then someone reviews the movie or interviews you and all they do is focus on the aesthetics, ” she expressed.

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inMargot 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.'

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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