Mark Wahlberg beaten up for real by co-star

New York, Oct 20 (IANS) Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg was left battered and bruised on the sets of new action film "Max Payne" because his co-star Mila Kunis beat him up for real during the fight scenes.

The actor's title character scraps with Kunis' in the movie and Wahlberg revealed his co-star wasn't acting when she laid into him, reports contactmusic.

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'My motto is always 'hit and try not to be hit', which some of my cast members didn't understand going in. I don't think she practiced very much with the Billy club,' he said.

'Originally, it was going to be a chain and she whipped me with that a couple of times. And then she pulled out this baton and started slapping me with it, so I had to really be on my toes.'

He added: 'You're supposed to miss by at least a foot (and) the angles will sell it.'

But Kunis admits she found her fight scenes with Wahlberg very therapeutic. 'I got a lot of my anger out.'