Margot Robbie Listened to theTitanicScore to Prep for aWolf of Wall StreetScene — While Kate and Leo Were in the Next Room

Mar. 15, 2025

Margot Robbie in 2024 and Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 1997’s ‘Titanic’.Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Merie W Wallace/20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Merie W Wallace/20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

Margot Robbieis revisiting the “surreal” moment when she was listening to music fromTitanicwhile the film’s stars,Leonardo DiCaprioandKate Winslet, were in the next room.

TheBarbiestar is set to guest on the upcoming Nov. 26 episode of TCM and Max’s podcastTalking Pictures, according toVariety. During her chat with host Ben Mankiewicz, Robbie reveals her tried and true trick for conjuring up tears in a performance.

“I can even just hear the theme music ofTitanic, and I’ll be bawling,” the three-time Oscar nominee explains. “And so that’s what I do on set if I need to cry in a scene.”

Margot Robbie in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ in 2013.Appian Way/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

Appian Way/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

Robbie even used the technique before filming an emotional scene in directorMartin Scorsese’s 2013 filmThe Wolf of Wall Street. In the film, based on former stockbroker and convicted criminalJordan Belfort’s 2007 memoir, Robbie starred oppositeTitanicleading man Leonardo DiCaprio as a character based on Belfort’s ex-wife.

But on the day the scene was filmed, DiCaprio wasn’t the onlyTitanicalumnus on set, according to Robbie.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 1997’s ‘Titanic’.Merie W Wallace/20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

Merie W Wallace/20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

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“There was the big, crazy scene after I ask for a divorce and stuff. And Kate Winslet came to visit set, to visit Leo that day,” Robbie recalls. “I was in the room next to them, listening to theTitanicsoundtrack trying to stay in sad, teary mode. And then I saw Kate Winslet and Leo walk past. It was very surreal."

source: people.com