Maria Di Angelis is a model/actress who has a scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as duplicitous trader Jordan Belfort. The scene features a mass orgy on a charter plane, where Di Angelis plays a high-end hooker, hired to accompany a bevy of men from New York to Las Vegas. She remained at least partially clothed and lived to write about it for the New York Post. Here are some highlights of her trails and tribulations:
The first step was e-mailing pictures of my body to prove I was still in the right kind of shape. They wanted to see how my butt and legs looked. So I just grabbed my iPad and, partially dressed, struck an arrogant pose and clicked “Send.”
When I entered the room, it was like that scene from “Flashdance” where the girl has to impress a panel of guys. I looked up, and Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner and Matthew McConaughey were all sitting there in a line, with Martin Scorsese right in the middle.
On set, it felt a bit awkward because, unlike in the choreography, there was no music playing in the background because it interferes with the sound recording. There was no “Le Freak” this time. So we had to improvise a lot and simulate an orgy almost in silence!
This girl was completely naked, sitting astride [DiCaprio], while he was wearing a suit. She was very — how can I say? — enthusiastic. It wasn’t acting. They had to keep telling her: “You can’t just, like, hump him.” She was all over him. So they said: “You’re here because you’re foreground. We’re just going to move you back a little!”
When the plane violently veered one way, I remember this one woman falling onto the side of the cabin and literally bouncing off the walls. “I’ve got to thank my doctor,” she laughed, cupping her boobs, which obviously had implants in them. “These saved me!”
She also can’t resist quoting people saying that she is “so hot” behind her back or, to her face: “You’re gorgeous! What am I gonna tell my wife? I’m so happily married, I can’t even look at you!” She also writes that her casting director said, “Martin has asked for you, personally, at least eight or nine times.” So at least orgy scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio are tangentially related to outstanding boosts of self-confidence.
