While viewers of this year’s Oscars were understandably shocked to see Will Smith smack Chris Rock across the face with an open-handed slap, for Dame Joan Collins it was a case of been there, done that.
In an interview with “Daily Blast Live”, Dame Joan compared her infamous “Dynasty” slap-fest with co-star Linda Evans to the Rock-Smith dust-up.
As Collins recalled, the iconic fight-in-a-pond that viewers saw in the 1980s primetime soap was the real deal. READ MORE: Joan Collins Says There Are A Lot Of Actresses Haven’t Had Plastic Surgery: ‘There’s Many Of Us’ “That was not a [stunt] double that fell into the water.
That was me,” she insisted. “In fact, I think it’s me most of the time because when I fell into the water I had a big hat on and the hat flew off, which is slightly iconic.