Actors Who Had Awkward Auditions For Their Famous Roles
By Emily Bell
When recalling her awkward audition for the lead female role in 2013's biographical crime comedy The Wolf of Wall Street, Margot Robbie remembered thinking to herself that she had yet to make a lasting impression during a scene with the movie's lead character—and that time was rapidly running out. Desperate times, as they say, call for desperate measures.
"And so I start screaming at him," Robbie told Harper's Bazaar, "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?'" Kiss him she did not. In fact, she did just the opposite. "I hit him in the face," she said. "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."
As it would turn out, smacking the Academy Award-winner across the beak might just have been the most important decision of Robbie's career. "She clinched her part in The Wolf of Wall Street during our first meeting," director Martin Scorsese claimed. "[It was] an improvisation that stunned us all."
