Although the tension between Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri ‘s After the Hunt characters could be cut with a knife, the pair became fast friends on set.

Leading up to the Luca Guadagnino film’s theatrical release Friday, Edebiri recalled filming one scene that required her to slap Roberts after the cast and director had built a “safe” place “to take risks” during rehearsals.

“It was horrible. I had to slap literally God’s gift to humanity, Julia Roberts,” she told Vogue .

In After the Hunt , college professor Alma Olsson (Roberts) finds herself at a complicated crossroads when her prized pupil Maggie Price (Edebiri) accuses her colleague Henrik Gibson ( Andrew Garfield ) of sexual assault, threatening to expose a dark secret from Alma’s own past.

Despite filming in the

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