HELEN HUNT: MAD ABOUT SLAPPING HALEY JOEL OSMENT

HELEN HUNT: MAD ABOUT SLAPPING HALEY JOEL OSMENT

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Helen Hunt is mad about something new: Slapping Haley Joel Osment in the face. Hunt tells "TV Guide Online" that when she was making her new movie, "Pay It Forward," she flipped out after her character had to smack "The Sixth Sense" star on the jaw. Although the slapping scene is important to the plot, Hunt says "perpetuating that kind of rage against that kind of innocence was crushing to me." Hunt tried smacking Osment but says it didn't look "brutal enough." So, the director reshot the scene so the kiddie star would look like he was getting his butt kicked without actually getting hurt. "Pay It Forward," which also stars Kevin Spacey, opens nationally October 20.