Margot Robbie says ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ nude scene was her idea

Margot Robbie has revealed that a full-frontal nude scene in The Wolf Of Wall Street was her own idea.

Robbie played Naomi in the 2013 drama and appears completely naked when attempting to seduce wealthy stockbroker Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. At first, director Martin Scorsese said she could wear a robe if it made her more comfortable, but Robbie had a different idea she felt was more fitting for the character.

“That’s not what she would do in that scene,” she explained on the Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories podcast. “The whole point is that she’s going to come out completely naked—that’s the card she’s playing.”

It wasn’t the first time she’d brought a bold idea to the film. In her final audition, the scene required her to kiss DiCaprio but she slapped him instead.

“I thought, I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now, and that would be awesome,” she said. “I can’t wait to tell all of my friends this. And then I thought… nah. And just walloped him in the face.

“It was dead silence for what felt like an eternity but was probably three seconds. Then they just burst out laughing. Leo and Marty were laughing so hard, they said ‘That was great.’ I was thinking, ‘I’m going to get arrested, I’m pretty sure that’s assault, battery’.”

She imagined being told: “‘Not only will you never work again, actually you will go to jail for this, you idiot. And also why did you have to hit him so hard? You should have done it lighter.’”

On the same podcast, Robbie also revealed that she listens to the theme music from Titanic to make her cry on set.

Last week, it was revealed that Robbie had given birth to her first baby with her husband and film producer Tom Ackerley.

Elsewhere, it was recently announced that Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to star in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which is currently in pre-production and will begin filming in the UK next year.

Robbie had previously praised Fennell’s directorial skills, saying in an interview in January: “Emerald immerses you into a world so quickly. She’s so masterful at tone and plot.

“She gets in your brain and she kind of taps into the most depraved parts of it, so that you’re complicit in the story. That’s the watercooler moment – the thing that people are talking about two weeks afterwards.”