Margot Robbie thought she was going to get “arrested” for the impromptu Wolf of Wall Street scene

Margot Robbie remembers being afraid of being arrested after going off script at her final audition for the film Wolf of Wall Street.

The 34-year-old Australian actor, who starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated comedy thriller, recounted the memory in a recent episode of the film Talking pictures Podcast.

Speaking about one of the scenes in which her character was asked to kiss DiCaprio’s stockbroker Jordan Belfort, she recalled walking up to him and thinking, “I could totally kiss Leonardo DiCaprio and that would be amazing.” I can’t wait to tell all my friends.

“And then I thought… no. And just punched him in the face,” Robbie said, recounting: “There was dead silence for what felt like an eternity, but probably three seconds.”

“Then they just burst out laughing. Leo and Marty laughed so hard they said, “That was great.””

She recalled thinking at the time: “I’m going to get arrested, I’m pretty sure it’s assault. Not only will you never work again, you idiot, you’ll even go to prison for it. And why did you have to hit him so hard? You should have made it easier.”

Robbie was just 22 years old when she got her breakout role as Naomi Lapaglia in the 2013 film, playing Nadine Macaluso, the real Belfort’s ex-wife.

She has previously spoken about how she was unprepared for the consequences of the fame she experienced after the film, calling it one of her “lowest moments.”

Robbie thought about the privacy she lost after the movie Vanity Fair: “Something happened at that early stage and it was all pretty terrible and I remember saying to my mother, ‘I don’t think I want to do this.’

“And she just looked at me completely blank and said, ‘Honey, I think it’s too late.’ not To.’ That’s when I realized the only way was forward.”

Since then, Robbie has become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors, playing leading roles in films such as: Barbie (2023), Birds of prey (2020) and Me, Tonya (2017).

Elsewhere on the Talking pictures In the podcast she was surprised that her film would be released in 2022 Babylon flopped, saying she “still can’t understand why people hated it.”

“I love it,” she said of Damien Chazelle’s infamous box office hit. “I know I’m biased because I’m very close to the project and obviously believe in it, but I still can’t understand why people hated it.

“I wonder if in 20 years people will say, ‘Wait a minute, Babylon Didn’t things go well back then?’ For example, when you hear that Shawshank Redemption was a failure back then and you ask yourself: ‘How is this possible?’”