“Hitch” director Andy Tennant has revealed that Will Smith, who plays the lead role, tried to pull out of the film days before shooting was set to begin.
“There was a lot of fear doing a big, expensive romantic comedy with [Smith],” the filmmaker told Business Insider in a new interview. The film “was fraught with peril,” he said, adding that Smith “tried to back out three days before we started shooting.”
“He wanted to shut down and work on it some more. It was madness,” he said.
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