Margot Robbie says Martin Scorsese told her ‘every great movie has a stair shot’ - The Independent

Margot Robbie has revealed the 1 happening Martin Scorsese thinks a movie needs to marque it “great”.

The histrion worked with the filmmaker connected 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street, playing Naomi Lapaglia, the woman of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort, erstwhile she was 22.

Robbie reflected connected the acquisition during a “Life successful Pictures supported by TCL” speech astatine Bafta connected Tuesday (22 November), explaining that Scorsese would “sit astir and archer stories astir the Mafia and aged movie stars”.

But, Robbie, present 32, said that Scorsese did extremity her disconnected connected what helium feels makes a bully movie great.

“We were shooting the changeable wherever I’m moving up the stairs, and helium turns to maine and goes, ‘Every large movie has a step shot,’” she said.

“I’ve told truthful galore directors since that Martin Scorsese says each large movie has a stairwell shot, truthful get the stairs successful there.”

Deadline reports that Robbie said the free-spirited “tone” of the film’s accumulation made it “a spot of a escaped for all”.

“It was similar the crazier you are, the much Marty volition similar it – and the much surface clip you’re going to get,” she explained.

According to Robbie, the enactment country that ends with Naomi asking for a divorce, which leads to a drugged up Jordan crashing his car with their girl successful the backmost seat, was a precocious summation to the script.

“What happened antecedently successful the publication was that I walked into his bureau and said I privation a divorce, and that was it,” Robbie said, revealing that she and Scorsese, alongside DiCaprio, “locked ourselves successful a country until 3 successful the greeting and came up with each of that”.

Robbie besides precocious named which of her films made her realise she was a “good actor”. She said this movie gave her the assurance to scope retired to Quentin Tarantino, starring to her relation successful Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood.

Earlier this month, Robbie opened up astir the “low moment” she experienced aft starring successful The Wolf of Wall Street, and revealed that Disney has officially scrapped a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot she was acceptable to prima in.

The Australian histrion is an Oscar frontrunner for her show successful Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, which is released successful the US connected 23 December and successful the UK connected 23 January.