Margot Robbie thought she’d ‘go to jail’ for slapping Leonardo DiCaprio during ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ audition

Margot Robbie made an executive decision to slap Leonardo DiCaprio during her “Wolf of Wall Street” audition instead of kissing him, according to the “Barbie” star.

Margot Robbie made a creative decision to slap Leonardo DiCaprio during her “Wolf of Wall Street” audition instead of kissing him, according to the “Barbie” star. The result, she joked during a recent episode of the “Talking Pictures” podcast, was that slapping her scene partner was actually a form of assault that could lead to her arrest. Luckily, Robbie said, DiCaprio and the film’s director Martin Scorsese loved it and she walked out of that audition not only to eventually land the role, but shackle-free. “It was not in the script,” Robbie said of the slap, referring to the “throwing the water in the face” scene that she was reading with DiCaprio during her audition. Robbie said that at a certain point after they’d been improvising, DiCaprio had “returned to the script and the last line was ‘come over here and kiss me.’” “In my head I was like, I could totally kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now. That would be awesome. I can’t wait to tell all my friends this,” Robbie recalled. “And then I was like, ‘nah.’ I just walloped him in the face,” she added, with a laugh.