The film is memorable for featuring extreme profanity, explicit sex scenes, and intense drug use.Ĭash played Belfort's assistant Janet in the satirical biopic and has had an illustrious career on screen and stage, well known for her main roles in You're the Worst, Fosse/Verdon, and The Boys. The Wolf of Wall Street also stars Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, and Jon Bernthal. The black comedy directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio explores the journey of real-life stockbroker Jordan Belfort as he climbs to the top and commits corruption and fraud in his firm.
Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Aya Cash reveals a wild behind-the-scenes story from when she worked on The Wolf of Wall Street. Watch McConaughey relive his “Wolf of Wall Street” performance in the video below. Scorsese, DiCaprio, and McConaughey shot the scene again with the chant in it and they nailed it on the first try. As we’re packing up to go onto another scene, Leonardo goes, ‘What’s that thing you’re doing before the scene? What if we put that in the scene?'” We did five takes and we have the scene, Martin is ready to move on and I’m good. It keeps my voice low and my instrument loose.
I was doing it before every take and then on ‘action,’ I’d go to do the scene. It’s musical, so it gets me out of my head because I don’t want to be thinking as an actor, I want to be doing. “I’ll come up with a different tune and it’s a relaxation tool for me. “The actual chant, that is something I’ll do not only in this film but before scenes in a lot of films,” McConaughey said. DiCaprio observed his co-star chanting before takes and recognized that it could be gold in the context of the movie and his character.
The chant is actually an acting ritual McConaughey had been using for years before filming scenes in his films. The scene begins and ends with the chant, but it’s not something Scorsese or “Wolf of Wall Street” writer Terence Winter added to the screenplay. McConaughey’s scene was made all the more memorable for a chant his character does while pounding his chest.
'Loki': Everything You Need to Know About Marvel's Disney+ SeriesĮmmy Predictions: Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - 'Ted Lasso' vs. Leonardo DiCaprio Argued Against Meryl Streep's 'Don't Look Up' Nude Scene, but 'She Didn't Even Blink' Leonardo DiCaprio Jumped Into a Frozen Lake to Save His Dogs During 'Don't Look Up' Filming That line with Mark Hanna is, he’s explaining the secret of his business to Leonardo’s character and he says, ‘The secret is cocaine and hookers.’ I just read that and said, ‘If this guy really believes that, then who the hell is this guy?'” If you can unpack that line, if this character means that, then there’s an encyclopedia on this character. “They had this one line that was written, and I call it a launchpad line,” McConaughey said, “I had one in ‘Dazed and Confused’ and I had one in ‘Magic Mike.’ Sometimes you get a line in a script and the imagination just soars. The scene became one of the breakout moments in the film’s nearly three-hour running time, thanks in large part to McConaughey’s firecracker performance. Actor Matthew McConaughey has started a weekly quarantine video series on Twitter entitled “McConaughey Takes” in which he reexamines a signature role in his filmography this week, the Oscar winner’s attention turned to his memorable supporting turn in Martin Scorsese’s “ The Wolf of Wall Street.” McConaughey has one significant scene in the film where his character, Mark Hanna, has a lunch meeting with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort.