Margot Robbie thought she would be arrested after she slapped Leonardo DiCaprio while auditioning for The Wolf of Wall Street.
The Australian star revealed that the two were supposed to be reading a kissing scene when she decided a slap would be 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,” she 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,’ Robbie said.
‘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.
Margot Robbie thought she would be arrested after she slapped Leonardo DiCaprio while auditioning for The Wolf of Wall Street
The Australian star revealed that the two were supposed to be reading a kissing scene when she decided a slap would be more dramatic. (Robbie and DiCaprio pictured in film)
‘And then they just burst out laughing. Leo and Marty were laughing so hard, they said, “That was great.”‘
Margot admitted that she was worried she would get ‘arrested’ and that her career was over after the off-script move.
‘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 couldn’t resist giving the movie star a lesson in all things Ramsay Street.
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.
