"I was very nervous"
The Australian actress, who rose to fame with her portrayal in The Wolf of Wall Street, recalled how nervous she was about shooting a scene with the Oscar winner.
If there was one movie that marked the beginning of Margot Robbie's rise to stardom, it was The Wolf of Wall Street. In Martin Scorsese's biopic about Jordan Belfort's fall from grace, the actress played Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of the New York stockbroker played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who received an Oscar nomination for his work. The film director of Taxi Driver had a ferocious approach, in tune with his central character, with very strong sequences, among them, those that showed the S- encounters between Belfort and his wife.
In recent statements, Robbie revealed that she could not calm down before filming the A- scenes with DiCaprio, so she had to decide what to do just before the cameras start rolling. Is the solution to dispel that state of stress?? The alcohol. "I'm not going to lie, I had a couple of shots of tequila because I was nervous, very, very nervous," she declared, adding that she had no dimension, seven years ago, of the impact the film was going to have.
“Honestly, I know it sounds silly now, knowing how big the movie became, but at the time, I thought, 'Nobody's going to notice me no matter what I do in this movie because everyone is going to focus on Leo [DiCaprio]. ] And everything else. I was with the attitude of 'I will go unnoticed,' ”she recalled.
Some time ago, Robbie admitted to not being "emotionally ready" for the loss of privacy when The Wolf of Wall Street catapulted her to fame: "Something was going on in those early stages and it was all pretty horrible, and I remember telling my mom: 'I don't think I want to do this.' And she just looked at me, completely serious, and said, 'Honey, I think it's too late not to. It was then that I realized that the only way was forward," recalled the actress, who later turned to produce films with women at the forefront, such as Emerald Fennell's Oscar nominee Beautiful Revenge.
Three years after Scorsese's feature film was released, Robbie also said that having never filmed an S- scene, the experience was strange. “I hadn't filmed a start-to-finish S- sequence like I did on The Wolf of Wall Street. That was my first. A lot of people are looking at you,” she stated. “It's so uncomfortable. It's like, this is what you have to do: keep going. The sooner you do it, the sooner you can stop doing it," said the Australian, who in 2019 met DiCaprio again on the set of another film: Once upon a Time... in Hollywood, by Quentin Tarantino.
This year, the name of the actress sounds strong in the race for the Oscar for her leading role in Babylon, the brand new feature film by the director of La La Land, Damien Chazelle, which will arrive in our theaters on January 19 and which registers the city of Los Angeles in the 20s, more precisely the debauchery of the search for fame in the Hollywood industry.
Margot Robbie and her incident in Buenos Aires
In her recent visit to Argentina, the actress was the protagonist of an episode that grabbed the headlines of the foreign press. Robbie, who was with her friend Cara Delevingne in a restaurant, was captured by flashes by a photographer in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca in a few minutes that night ended with police intervention, and a person admitted, precisely the photographer who found them. at the exit of the place where the friends had dinner.
In an interview with the magazine, Robbie explained her link to fame and tangentially alluded to the event that occurred in our country. “I know how to get through airports, and I also learned how to tell when someone is trying to annoy me and in what way,” she said. According to her reports, the paparazzi Pedro Alberto Orquera tried to take pictures of her and Delevingne and two men who accompanied them beat him to prevent them from being photographed.
Initially, reports emerged indicating that Robbie had been injured in that confusing situation. When the journalist from the publication asked the actress from Amsterdam about what happened, she assured that she could not say anything due to the legal muzzle of the case. When asked if she had been hurt, she replied succinctly: "No, but they could have."
