In an interview on the Fulls End podcast, the infamous ex-stockbroker was asked about whether there were any “misleading” scenes in the 2013 blockbuster that he thought made him look like an “a***hole”.“When I punch my wife in the stomach, at the end – that didn’t happen,” the 59-year-old told the hosts, referring to a dramatic scene toward the end of Wolf Of Wall Street where DiCaprio, playing Belfort, is shown slapping and later punching his wife Naomi (played by Margot Robbie) after she tells him she wants a divorce.Belfort went on to explain that the inclusion of the controversial scene had been flagged with him ahead of time by DiCaprio himself.“Leo called me first, so I can’t blame him. He asked me for permission,” he said.“He called me and said, ‘Listen man, I wanna do something, it’s gonna really make it dramatic. It’s not great for you but trust me, you’re going to come out looking great in the movie … But I’m going to punch your wife in the stomach after I snort all this [cocaine]’.“And all of that was fiction … I never punched her.”Belfort added that he’d been sober “18 months prior to getting arrested”, so his relapse in that scene was purely fictional.However, he insisted that the dramatisation hadn’t bothered him.“When the movie came out, my ex and I took the kids together, and we were like, ‘This didn’t happen, that didn’t happen,’ so it really didn’t bother me. I knew it wasn’t true and my kids knew it wasn’t true.”The controversial three-hour Martin Scorsese film remains the highest grossing R-rated film in Australian history, packed full of explicit scenes of drug use, sex and coarse language.It also was the movie that catapulted the career of Queensland-born actress Margot Robbie, who became a bona fide Hollywood A-lister after playing DiCaprio’s love interest.According to the former Neighbours star, her big break came down to a split-second decision during her screen test.“In my head I was like, ‘You have literally 30 seconds left in this room and if you don’t do something impressive nothing will ever come of it. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance, just take it,’” Robbie told Harper’s Bazaar at the time.“And so I start screaming at him [DiCaprio] and he’s yelling back at me. And he’s really scary. I can barely keep up.“And he ends it saying, ‘You should be happy to have a husband like me. Now get over here and kiss me.’ So I walk up really close to his face and then I’m like, ‘Maybe I should kiss him. When else am I ever going to get a chance to kiss Leo DiCaprio, ever?’“But another part of my brain clicks and I just go, Whack! I hit him in the face. And then I scream, ‘F**k you!’ And that’s not in the script at all. The room just went dead silent and I froze.”It was a big risk – but as it turns out, that was what won her the part.Scorsese told Time magazine he was left “stunned” by her improvisation.“She clinched her part in The Wolf Of Wall Street during our first meeting by hauling off and giving Leonardo DiCaprio a thunderclap of a slap on the face,” the director said.“[It was] an improvisation that stunned us all.”
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