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20.06.2023 - 14:19 / etcanada.com
Michael Cera is looking back on the “funnier” revision that was made to the script of 2013’s “This Is The End”.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the actor explains how “no pain, no gain” applied to the scene where he got slapped by Rihanna at James Franco’s house party.
Cera, 35, noted that, after multiple takes, the two — who play exaggerated versions of themselves, along with the rest of the cast — agreed to ditch the fake slaps and actually slap one another, leading to a “slightly revised” script.
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“I don’t think the takes weren’t working,” Cera recounted. “I thought it would look a lot better if she hit me. I don’t think it took much convincing to get her to do it. I just thought it would look a lot better than a fake slap would because you can really feel it. It just looks a lot funnier!”
The take that made the final cut left Cera a little banged up.
Though the Canadian star “was into it” and “definitely did not regret it,” he told RS that Rihanna “really did hit my ear, which was disorienting.
“But I have no regrets,” he reiterated. “I didn’t lose any hearing over it, fortunately!”
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Seth Rogen — who made his directorial debut with Evan Goldberg on the film — previously spoke about Cera and Rihanna’s slap scene.
“We did maybe three or four [takes] and [Cera] asked [Rihanna] if he could actually slap her butt, and she said he could if she could actually slap him back in the face, which she did,” he shared upon the film’s 2013 release. “And I think one of the times she got him in
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