Margot Robbie Says ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Full Frontal Nudity Was Her Idea; She Turned Down Scorsese When He Said: ‘Maybe You Can Be Wearing a Robe’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Margot Robbie appeared on the “Talking Pictures” podcast with TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz and revealed that her “Wolf of Wall Street” director Martin Scorsese actually offered her the chance not to appear fully nude in the film.

Robbie has a full frontal scene as Naomi Lapaglia, the bombshell and no-nonsense wife to Leonardo DiCaprio’s criminal Jordan Belfort.

The actor was in her early 20s at the time and wasn’t even thinking about how “everyone is going to see this.” “[Scorsese] said, ‘Maybe you can be wearing a robe if you’re not comfortable.’ But that’s not what she would do in that scene,” Robbie said of her character and making the choice herself to go full frontal. “The whole point is that she’s going to come out completely naked—that’s the card she’s playing right now.” Robbie took matters into her own hands during a lot of the making of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which served as her breakout film role.

For instance, the scenes for her audition with DiCaprio ended with their characters kissing, but she decided to slap him instead. “I thought, ‘I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now, and that would be awesome.