This is one of the best scenes from The Wolf of Wall Street: Leonardo DiCaprio’s improvisation cost him his injury.

ARTE will broadcast The Wolf of Wall Street this evening, marking director Martin Scorsese’s fifth collaboration with beloved actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film tells the story of how stockbroker Jordan Belfort discovers that by manipulating the market with fake news, it is easy to artificially inflate the price of a worthless stock and resell it at a substantial profit. The only downside: this technique is illegal and the FBI is watching. Except that Belfort and his associates have tasted the easy money, and they’re not going to stop there.

One of the most striking scenes in the film is undoubtedly when Belfort (DiCaprio), a drug addict to the last degree, tries to take his car. We then see the actor painfully and angrily crawling towards the car and trying to open it. And during the filming of this series, as Scorsese said, the Titanic star was injured BBC Radio 1 :

Why did Margot Robbie quit acting after filming the movie?

“When he had to open the door, I imagined him crawling on the ground and opening the car to get in, but choosing the car – I liked it, but I don’t remember the brand – I realized too late that it was the door. open up”. It follows:

I turned to Leo to ask what we were going to do as he had to open the car door. He replied, “I will do it with my foot.”

Scorsese did not return from his acting role in The Wolf of Wall Street: “He’s amazing in movement and almost uses his body as a mime. And it’s interesting because he fell on his back in an earlier shoot and hurt his back a little bit. What you see ‘screen’ is especially real.”

Controversial scene:

to the microphone varietyDiCaprio also referred to this sequence as “quaaludes”, the name of the drug taken by his character: “Yeah, I wore a neck brace for a while, something like that. It was like that for three days, but it was like…I managed to get through it.”

Always giving 200% to his acting profession, DiCaprio played a part in the film’s success, grossing 3 million admissions in France and 392 million worldwide.