Margot Robbie feared she would be arrested after she ‘walloped’ Leonardo DiCaprio while auditioning for The Wolf of Wall Street.
The Australian star revealed the scene they were rehearsing was meant to end in a kiss but she spontaneously thought of something more dramatic.
The last line from DiCaprio was, ‘Come over here and kiss me.’
‘And in my head I was like, “I could totally kiss Leonardo DiCaprio. That would be awesome,” Robbie recalled during an episode of the Talking Pictures podcast. ‘I can’t wait to tell all of my friends this.’
‘And then I was like… nah. And just walloped him in the face.
‘And it was dead silence for what felt like an eternity but was probably three seconds,’ recounted the actress, who was 22 years old at the time.
‘And then they just burst out laughing. Leo and Marty (director Martin Scorsese) were laughing so hard, they said, “That was great.”‘
Despite that positive feedback, Margot immediately feared the worst from her wild improvisation.
‘I was like, “You’re going to get arrested, I’m pretty sure that’s assault, battery,”‘ she thought at the time.
‘Not only will you never work again, but actually you will go to jail for this, you idiot. And also, why did you have to do it so hard? You could have done it lighter.’
It comes after the stunning actress revealed that she prompted Di Caprio to watch some episodes of Neighbours; the Aussie soap where she got her start.
The blonde bombshell said: ‘When I started on [The] Wolf [of Wall Street], Leo and Martin Scorsese had heard of Neighbours and were aware of what it was, but they hadn’t seen any episodes.
‘So he went onto YouTube and watched a few clips.’
Margot played Donna Freedman on the soap from 2008 to 2011.