In an entirely unscripted and unexpected moment of improvisation, Margot Robbie smacked Leonardo DiCaprio around the face during her Wolf of Wall Street audition.
And what's more, it paid off pretty hard. Margot bagged the lead female role in the film, and Leonardo - though stunned - asked her to go ahead and slap him all over again.
Speaking of the audition in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Issue, director Martin Scorsese applauded Margot for her handiwork. "She clinched her part in The Wolf of Wall Street during our first meeting", he said, "by hauling off and giving Leonardo DiCaprio a thunderclap of a slap on the face.
"[It was] an improvisation that stunned us all."
Meanwhile, Margot previously spoke of the audition in an issue of Harper's Bazaar, explaining what was going through her mind when she slapped Leo.
"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.' And so I start screaming at him 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."
What could have been disastrous turned out pretty good for Margot and, needless to say, she probably has zero regrets.
This probably isn't career advice to take on board, though...
