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Vanessa Bell Calloway recalls the strategy behind the infamous cake fight scene in What's Love Got to Do with It

The actress, 68, remembers playing Jackie, with Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner in the heated scene

What's Love Got To Do With It was based on the singer's 1986 memoir, where she detailed a difficult upbringing, her abusive marriage, and her ability to overcome and find success and joy on her own terms

Vanessa Bell Calloway's most dramatic moment in What's Love Got to Do with It was not completely pretend.

The actress portrayed Tina Turner's friend Jackie, who tries to intervene when Ike Turner pushes her face into a cake in public. The moment is a fictionalization of an incident described by Tina in her 1986 memoir, I, T

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