{"id":324325,"date":"2025-12-04T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324325\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:57:08","slug":"vanessa-bell-calloway-says-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-slap-was-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324325\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Bell Calloway Says ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ Slap Was Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanessa Bell Calloway
\n Laurence Fishburne Slapped the S**t Outta Me …
\n And That’s the Take They Used!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published December 3, 2025 2:29 PM PST\n <\/p>\n

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Vanessa Bell Calloway<\/a> has been turning in impeccable performances for more than 3 decades — but in “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” she wasn’t acting at all … at least in the film’s most iconic scene.<\/p>\n

Fans will remember the 1993 biopic follows the meteoric rise of Tina Turner<\/a> — played by Angela Bassett<\/a> — and her then-husband Ike — played by Laurence Fishburne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vanessa plays Tina’s fictional friend Jackie in the movie, who gets slapped by Ike when she sticks up for Tina in a diner.<\/p>\n

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Now … the textbook way to film a slap scene is for the slap-ee to move their head violently out of the way before the slapper can actually make contact — then the sound is added in later. But apparently, that is not what happened.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Cocoa Butter<\/a>, Vanessa explained she and Laurence rehearsed the correct way to stage the slap, and they were going great … until one take they missed.<\/p>\n

Vanessa explained, “We didn’t have the eye connection, and he slapped the living s**t out of me and my face was pounding.”<\/p>\n

And anybody who remembers the scene knows … she’s not lying. It’s right there on film — Jackie does a full somersault as a result of the epic blow absorbed from Ike.<\/p>\n

She continued … “One side of my brain was like, ‘Ow!!!’ The other side was, ‘Keep going, Vanessa! This is gonna be good.'”<\/p>\n

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She did keep going … despite everyone around frozen by the fact that they know they just heard a real slap.<\/p>\n

“And that’s the take they used,” Vanessa revealed.<\/p>\n

Hats off to her for taking one for the team, because that scene is etched into cinematic history. The movie also earned Laurence and Angela Oscar nods for their roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanessa Bell Calloway Laurence Fishburne Slapped the S**t Outta Me … And That’s the Take They Used!!! Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-324325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}