Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway recently confirmed that the famous face slap from the 1993 Tina Turner biopic “ What’s Love Got to Do with It ” was the real deal.

In a startling confession, Callowway revealed details about the infamous “cake scene,” where Laurence Fishburne slapped her across the room was not fully staged — the hit delivered landed harder than expected, and the take that made it into the film captured the exact moment his hand actually connected with her face.

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In the film, Calloway plays Jackie, Tina Turner’s friend and background singer. In one of the movie’s most iconic scenes, she steps in to defend Tina, played by Angela Bassett , when

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