Margot Robbie has revealed that her brother didn’t speak to her for three months after he saw her full frontal nude scene in The Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah, I can imagine that does make family gatherings a bit awkward, to be fair.
Robbie played Naomi Lapaglia alongside Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort in the 2013 flick, which was directed by legendary director Martin Scorsese.
The Aussie actor starred in several steamy scenes with co-star DiCaprio, but while she was happy to strip off for the role, her family were less comfortable with it - particularly her brother.
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Speaking during an interview on the Screen Time podcast, the 32-year-old star revealed that she had watched The Wolf of Wall Street with her family, which I reckon is either pretty bold or not particularly well thought out given the movie’s adult content.
And one of her brothers found it a particularly difficult watch - so much so, he needed a few weeks off from speaking to Robbie to try and get his head around it.
"I can’t tell you how uncomfortable that was,” she said.
“One of my brothers didn’t speak to me for three months afterwards - not because he was mad, he was just, like: ‘I just need a minute before I can consider you my sister again!’"
Robbie has previously said that she initially felt hesitant about the nude scenes, despite her manager telling her that 'if there’s ever going to be a time for nudity, this is the director you do it with’.
However, she ultimately changed her mind as she felt that the nudity was in keeping with Naomi’s character.
In an interview the year after the movie was released, Robbie said that Scorsese had said it was fine for her she could preserve her modesty on camera, but that she didn’t think that was a good fit for Naomi.
Speaking to The Telegraph in 2014, she said: "I think nudity for the sake of nudity is shameful. If they've put it in just so that a girl gets her top off, then that's disgusting. And you can always tell.
"But I also think it's disgusting when someone would have got naked in real life, in the film they conveniently leave their bra on, or hold up the bed sheet. Seeing someone being choreographed into being covered up irritates me just as much."
She continued: "The whole point of Naomi is that her body is her only form of currency in this world. So when Marty [Scorsese] was trying to help me out, and said in the scene where she seduces Jordan perhaps I could have a robe on, I said she wouldn't. She has to be naked."
That’s all well and good, but maybe give your brother a heads up next time, eh?
Topics: Margot Robbie, TV and Film, Celebrity
Claire Reid