During her audition, she unexpectedly slapped DiCaprio across the face - a slap that was not in the script. But when Margot Robbie did it, one can hardly blame her after all, it's what landed her a career-changing role in The Wolf of Wall Street. Photo:įeeling the need to slap Leonardo DiCaprio might not be everyone's first instinct. That's just what happened among the cast and crew of The Wolf of Wall Street. If you have to call in professionals to censor you in real time, whatever you're creating must be so wild that some fascinating on-set stories are bound to come to light. Some content was so intense in The Wolf of Wall Street, consultants stood by and reviewed footage in an effort to keep the movie within its R-rating requirements. Jonah Hill swallowed fish pee, Leonardo DiCaprio had a popular lubricant repeatedly hurled at his face, and one of the film's production companies was involved in an illegal money laundering scheme involving Malaysian funds. While the production wasn't quite as raucous as the actual events depicted, the cast definitely left the set with some wild stories to tell.

But its memorable scenes soon became iconic and earned the movie a permanent place in pop culture.

Twice a day? Amateurs.Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street - starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie in her breakout performance - was peppered with depictions of debauchery, avarice, and substance abuse, placing it squarely in the middle of controversy. A wise choice because its one of the best parts of the scene, apart from maybe learning all about the characters masturbatory habits. Apparently the famous chest-beating and chanting in the scene is actually a warm-up ritual McConaughey uses to prepare for filming, but after seeing him do it several times during takes DiCaprio insisted that it be included in the scene. Though screenwriter Terence Winter (of Boardwalk Empire and Sopranos fame) fleshed it out with a bit extra dialogue, the legendary liquid lunch is pretty much a faithful recreation of a scene taken from the real life Belforts memoir and one of the films most satirical, perfectly setting the stage for the greedy insanity of the rest of the film.

Matthew McConaughey Wolf Of Wall Street Matthew McConaugheys screen time in Wolf of Wall Street may not amount to much more than ten minutes but he managed to make the film in his scene-stealing, albeit brief, performance as sleazy stockbroker Mark Hanna inducting Leonardo DiCaprios Jordan Belfort to the apparently drug, prostitute and masturbation fuelled world of 1980s Wall Street.

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