Leonardo DiCaprio was coached by bad-boy broker Jordan Belfort himself on how to act in a “The Wolf of Wall Street” scene in which the star had to crawl to a car while on drugs.
“I didn’t know anything about Quaaludes, and he had taken a tremendous amount of them,” DiCaprio told us at Tuesday’s National Board of Review gala at Cipriani 42nd Street.
“I videotaped him on the floor, rolling around, and he really articulated to me that you have every intention of going to a certain destination, but your body doesn’t go along with you. We shot it for, like, a week, and it was a lot of chiropractic work for me because it was incredibly painful.”
Meryl Streep presented an award to “Saving Mr. Banks” star Emma Thompson, who quipped, “It’s such a cold night . . . it’s the only time I’ve been actively grateful for menopause.”
And, “I’ve taken my heels off as a feminist statement, really, because why do we wear them? They’re so painful. And pointless . . . I really would like to urge everyone to stop it.”
Other winners included Spike Jonze, Bruce Dern and Octavia Spencer.