Leonardo DiCaprio says iconic Wolf of Wall Road scene took ‘4 days’ to movie

If there’s one film Leonardo DiCaprio will go down within the historical past books for, it is The Wolf of Wall Road.

The three-hour lengthy darkish comedy hit theaters again in 2013 and sees Titanic alumni DiCaprio painting the infamous stockbroker Jordan Belfort.

Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film was additionally Margot Robbie‘s large break. She portrayed Belfort’s now-ex wife Naomi Lapaglia and was totally nude in some scenes of the film — something she reportedly insisted on.

Scorsese was open to adjusting one of many scenes and have her put on a gown, however Robbie argued that ‘that’s not what [Naomi] would do in that scene’.

“The entire level is that she’s going to come back out fully bare — that’s the cardboard she’s taking part in,” Robbie went on to say on the Speaking Photos podcast.

Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio starred in The Wolf of Wall Road collectively (Dave M. Benett/WireImage)

Away from Robbie’s full frontal nudity within the movie, one other well-known scene noticed DiCaprio’s character excessive on quaaludes and making an attempt to stroll down some stairs to get into his automobile.

Belfort himself needed to train DiCaprio tips on how to appear to be he was on drugs for the scene in query.

“I confirmed him what it seems to be and appears like if you find yourself excessive on quaaludes,” Belfort told the New York Submit in 2018, including: “I began crawling round. We have been each on the ground, drooling. His father walked into the room and requested us what the f*ck we have been doing.”

Whereas the scene went on to change into a staple of the film, DiCaprio was initially underneath the impression that it was solely going to be a brief sequence.

DiCaprio not too long ago mentioned the scene on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast.

In his new film One Battle After One other, his character is tased. This sparked Jason to ask: “Is it more durable to behave such as you’ve been tased or that you just’re excessive on quaaludes?”

“I gotta say about that quaalude sequence, I didn’t know after I was capturing it however we have been there for 3 or 4 days,” DiCaprio replied.

He went on: “I assumed it was a pair pictures and [Martin Scorsese] had 50 pictures of me crawling round, up and down the steps, falling, getting within the automobile.”

DiCaprio then revealed that the tase scene in One Battle After One other ‘took 20 minutes’.

Elsewhere on the podcast the actor revealed that he was practically pressured to tackle a stage title as a result of his real name was supposedly ‘too ethnic’.

DiCaprio defined that when he acquired an agent, they made remarks about his moniker, and instructed he go by Lenny Williams as a substitute.

However his father stepped in and insisted that the now-global star be recognized by his birth-given title.