Julia Roberts ‘Was Stunned’ When Sean Penn Gave Her ‘Such A Wallop’ During ‘Gaslit’ Fight Scene

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Julia Roberts was “stunned” by how hard Sean Penn slapped her while filming “Gaslit”. The pair star in the 2022 political thriller, and Roberts was asked about one scene in which their characters Martha and John Mitchell had a physical fight during an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show”.

Roberts shared, “We had a lot of physical scenes and for me not being a person who… I haven’t done a lot of fight scenes in movies and I think, you know, when you’re gonna commit to something like that, you have to really commit to it. “And I think that that takes a huge level of confidence in another person.

For me to have that much confidence in a person there has to be time behind that. Sean and I have known each other since I was a teenager.

And so, I knew that I could trust whatever he was gonna do. “I was gonna survive… he has my husband and children to account for, you know, but I’ll tell you, he wasn’t, it wasn’t a little kiddie soft paws slap,” she said. READ MORE: Julia Roberts Shares Her Secret For A Successful 20-Year Marriage “He gave me the… that was the first fight that we had was when we slapped each other, and he slapped me first.