‘It’s so awkward’: Margot Robbie dishes on doing her first ever s. e .x scene as she sizzles in white bikini
She rose to fame after playing Naomi Lapaglia in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street, alongside onscreen husband Leonardo DiCaprio.
And speaking with Vanity Fair, August cover star Margot Robbie revealed that her R-rated scenes were the first ‘proper’ s*x scenes she had ever filmed.
Reflecting on the experience, the 26-year-old admitted that there is ‘no way to prepare,’ adding: ‘It’s so awkward.’
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‘Get on with it’ She admitted that there’s no way to prepare, saying you just have to do what you need to do, and the ‘sooner you do it, the sooner you can stop doing it’ (pictured with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio)
Margot had thought back on her previous roles, noting that she had had a shower scene in a low-budget film she had done in Australia.
‘I was practically naked there as well but it wasn’t anywhere near as much as Wolf,’ she had started, before clarifying: ‘Actually, I hadn’t done a proper s*x scene before.’
‘I’d done scenes where it’s leading into s*x or s*x has just finished, but I hadn’t done a start-to-finish s*x scene like I did in Wolf. That was my first,’ she shared.
And she shared that while they can be difficult to tackle, as ‘tons of people are watching you,’ you just have to get the job done.
When asked if she was worried she wouldn’t be able to do it, she gushed: ‘There isn’t an option. It’s just like, This is what you need to do – get on with it. The sooner you do it, the sooner you can stop doing it.’
And while filming the scenes was uncomfortable, Margot had just shared with Sunday Night that viewing them wasn’t much better.
She revealed that she had had a screening of the movie for family members, noting: ‘I didn’t really think it through.’
‘And after the screening, It was cool with most family members, but afterwards [my older brother Lachlan] and I had the most awkward conversation ever.’
She worked for it! On landing her role on famous Aussie soap Neighbours (pictured with co-star Jackie Woodburne in 2009), Margot revealed that she had hunted down the information for the production company and called every day until she was able to set up a meeting
‘He tried to say congratulations, and we tried to hug it out, and it was just so weird that I said, ‘OK, we don’t have to talk for a couple of days now’ … And then we never spoke of it again!’
Margot also discussed how she had landed her first big role prior to the 2013 Oscar nominee, admitting her agent wanted her to audition for famous Aussie soap Neighbours as she couch-surfed around Melbourne while looking for work.
The determined actress then took it upon herself to make it happen, hunting down the number for the production company.
Keeping busy: The Australian actress currently stars alongside Alexander Skarsgård in The Legend of Tarzan, and will soon appear as Harley Quinn in the highly anticipated Suicide Squad, which hits theaters August 5
‘I called every day, and, eventually, one day, they put me through to Jan Russ, a producer for Neighbors,’ Margot shared.
She added that she ‘got her on the phone just as I was about to leave Melbourne,’ securing a meeting at just the right time.
Turns out the show was casting for a 17-year-old, which was perfect for the then 17-year-old Margot, who made her debut just weeks later on the series as Donna Freedman.
She was quickly famous in Australia for the role, starring on a series that also boasts successful alumni such as Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Heath Ledger, and Chris Hemsworth.
Margot currently appears alongside Alexander Skarsgård, Christoph Waltz, and Samuel L. Jackson in David Yates’s The Legend of Tarzan.
She will next star as Harley Quinn in David Ayer’s star-studded, highly anticipated Suicide Squad, which hits theaters August 5.
