Emma Stone slapped Willem Dafoe 20 times after the latter insistence, for a scene im the upcoming film.

During a profile interview with the The New York Times, it was came to surface that the Spider-Man actor told co-star Stone to hit him repeatedly for a scene, despite being off camera in the shot.

Dafoe “insisted that the move would look more genuine if he were actually being slapped”, and that he took the staged hit 20 times.

That’s what you want from actors,” Lanthimos said about the veteran actor present on set even not required.

“To want to be part of it in any way."

Speaking about Dafoe, Stone said, “There’s this instinct to perform that many actors have – the ‘look at me, look at me!’ kind of performer. He’s the opposite of that. Maybe it’s changed through the years.

A lot of actors I bond with have been doing this for a long time, and you know they’ve gone from ‘I’ to ‘We.’”

Helmed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Asteroid City, starring Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone and is slated to hit the theaters on June 23, 2023.