Robbie describes the journey with wide eyes and big gestures, teasing out the seat-of-her-pants lunacy of it.
After a run of close shaves and near misses, her story’s ending almost feels anticlimactic.
The release of the Will Smith film is still some way off; for now, she’s talking about the Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese one.
In The Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie stars as Naomi Lapaglia, the trophy wife of DiCaprio’s monstrous stock-market fraudster, Jordan Belfort.
Robbie is a graduate of Neighbours, and worked on the soap opera for two-and-a-half years before moving to Hollywood with a very specific game plan.
The Wolf of Wall Street is its successful outcome – or, at least, the start of it.
“The whole point of Naomi is that her body is her only form of currency in this world. »