Margot Robbie has undoubtedly been one of the most in-demand actors of the past decade. Since her star-making turn in director Martin Scorsese's 2013 fact-based crime drama ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ Robbie has rocketed to superstardom, stealing the show as the eccentric supervillain “Harley Quinn” in 2016's ‘Suicide Squad,’ and reprising the role for 2020's ‘Birds of Prey’ and the reboot-slash-sequel ‘The Suicide Squad’ in 2021.
On top of that, she has often been in awards season conversations, having earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for playing the title role in the 2017 Tonya Harding biopic ‘I, Tonya’ and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as one of the alleged targets of sexual harassment by Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) in the 2019 fact-based drama ‘Bombshell.’
Adding to that a role as screen legend Sharon Tate in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 2019 revisionist Tinseltown comedy-drama ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,’ it's pretty safe to guess Robbie has made enough cash over the past decade to stuff away in her mattresses and pillowcases — safe and secure places, so long the bills stay there.
In ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ Robbie joined a group of actors who filmed love scenes that they eventually regretted. Playing Naomi Lapaglia, the fictionally-concocted second wife (via History vs. Hollywood) of millionaire stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), Robbie filmed several sensual scenes with DiCaprio, including one where Naomi and Jordan made love on a bed of cash.
Like most film productions, fake cash was used in "The Wolf of Wall Street," and as it turns out, the bills — produced by prolific movie moneymaker RJR Props (via CNN) — left Robbie with an unusual cautionary tale to tell. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Robbie exclaimed, "I got a million paper cuts on my back from all that money! It's not as glamorous as it sounds. If anyone is ever planning on having sex on top of a pile of cash: don't."
One thing Robbie found out is that the texture of movie money is different from the real thing, and she found out what sort of damage such a difference can make with some shocking observations from people on the set.
"Maybe real money is a bit softer, but the fake money is like paper, and when I got up off the bed, I turned around to get my robe and everyone gasped," Robbie recalled for The Daily Beast. "I said, 'What is it?' And they said, 'you look like you've been whipped a million times. Your back is covered in a thousand red scratches.'"
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