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Lynn Whitfield and the Oranges
Remember the scene where Lynn Whitfield beats herself in the face with a bag of oranges? It may seem like a stretch but this was actually art imitating life. Whitfield shared how she came up with the idea on The Rickey Smiley Morning show.
“My father was a dentist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and he told me that story once about one of his patients who had done that. So I went to Martin and I said ‘I heard this… how would it be if I just took a bag of oranges and beat myself.’ And he said, “Yeah and then you can walk over to the cabinet and slam…”
They were real oranges?
They were but you do a stage slap.”
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