In an intense scene from her latest hit, Animal, actress Rashmika Mandanna talked about slapping her on-screen spouse, portrayed by Ranbir Kapoor. Speaking about it, the actress said to Pinkvilla that after the scene ended, she started crying and screaming. She also recalled what filmmaker Sandeep Reddy Vanga told her about the scene, which helped her.
“The whole sequence was one take because there was a lot of moving. It wasn’t predictable. I didn’t know what I was going to do. Sandeep told me just to feel how a person in this situation would feel. I remember only this. I don’t remember anything between the action and the cut. I just can’t process it. My brain was just going blank,” Rashmika said.
Gitanjali, portrayed by Rashmika, slaps her husband Rannvijay in the scene after he confesses to having an affair with Triptii Dimri’s character Zoya. He explains that he needed to do it to get information about Zoya’s intentions. Gitanjali slaps him and they end up fighting.
The actress also shared how she comforted Ranbir Kapoor during the dramatic scene, “After the sequence, I was crying for real. I have slapped him, I am screaming, the chaos is happening, and I go to Ranbir, and I am like, ‘Was that okay? Are you okay?’ We finished that sequence in half a day. I loved it, and at that moment, I realised that this is the high of being an actor. People don’t write sequences like this every time. I am so glad that I did this movie and this sequence. I was surprised with myself.”