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\"I wanted my performance to be really good and I wanted to go in and do the best that I could,\" she confessed. \"I came down with my bow staff and I was supposed to whack my dad and he was, like, blocking, but the way I came down was way too close to his knuckles.\"

\"I saw his life flash before his eyes,\" added Bella, saying the mishap caused director Craig Brewer to stop the scene. Meanwhile, Eddie jokingly told his little girl, \"You're grounded!\"

The Oscar nominee added that he is proud of his daughter's movie debut.

\"I told her that she couldn't work until she was 18, but she started acting lessons, she was doing an acting school and stuff for maybe two years before that,\" he explained, saying he allowed her to audition because she was the right age for the part. \"So she auditioned for it and got the part.\"

\"Coming 2 America\" premieres March 5 on Amazon Prime.

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