Leonardo DiCaprio teams up with Martin Scorsese in the upcoming black comedy “The Wolf of Wall Street” and Leo is opening up about some of the film’s graphic sex scenes.
“It’s a modern-day Caligula,” DiCaprio tells New York magazine in a new cover story. “The height of debauchery,” he adds.
DiCaprio said he spent a lot of time with the man the movie is based on former stock broker Jordan Belfort to get a feel for portraying the depraved side of the financial world. “I wanted a close relationship with him so that I could weave intimate details into the movie.”
“I would bring pages of notes from my meetings with Jordan things like this insane orgy on a 747 going to Vegas, chimpanzees in diapers that would skate through the Stratton offices, very intimate stuff about his relationships with women and Marty was game to try everything,” he reveals.
One of DiCaprio’s costars in the film, Jonah Hill, also confirmed the outrageous portrayals in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which hits theaters in November. “I can safely say that this is the craziest performance I’ll ever give as far as what the character gets involved with.”
Warner Bros dropped out of Scorsese and DiCaprio’s upcoming black comedy “The Wolf of Wall Street” in 2008. The two went on to make “Shutter Island,” then separated for other projects. But when a window in Scorsese’s schedule opened up in 2012, DiCaprio approached the director again.
An independent production company, Red Granite Pictures, eventually stepped in to finance the film (Paramount is distributing), which is based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name. The book chronicles the former stockbroker’s rise and fall as the head of Stratton Oakmont, a brokerage house he founded when he was only in his late twenties. The Long Island based boiler room bamboozled small investors out of roughly $100 million in the nineties, the heyday of cheap money, junk bonds, and spectacularly ugly ties. In 1998, Belfort was indicted for securities fraud and money laundering, serving 22 months in prison after cooperating with the FBI.
