“I showed him what it looks and feels like when you are high on quaaludes,” Belfort told The New York Post.
One of The Wolf of Wall Street’s most memorable moments is, of course, its lengthy, lengthy quaalude scene.
DiCaprio himself has corroborated the story, adding that he caught the sessions on tape, nicknamed “the lost Jordan tapes”.
However, despite being one of the greatest thespians of his age, it’s a feat Leonardo DiCaprio couldn’t accomplish entirely on his own; having never done drugs before, he enlisted the real Jordan Belfort to teach him exactly what it looks like.