While Will Smith-Mod a romantic comedy “Hitch” can seem easy, which seemed to be everything, but the director discovered this week.
Andy Tennant, who has just directed Reese Witherspoon Classic Rom-Com 2002 2002 “Sweet Home Alabama”, Business told Insider this week that he and Smith kept breaking their heads while in the pre -test for “Hitch” from 2005.
“I didn’t want a cheap joke, but he didn’t believe me,” Tennant said in an interview published on Wednesday.
“We had difficulty. The movie I wanted to make and the movie will want to make – none of these movies are as good as the movie we made together. It was a battle.”
Although a romantic comedy guided by Will Smith, “Hitch” can easily seem, which did everything, but the director discovered this week. (Stephane Cardinal/Corbis via Getty Images)
The outlet said that, three days before they were to start making a movie, Smith tried to exclude it so he could continue working on the scenario.
“I think there was a lot of fear of doing a big, expensive romantic comedy with Will,” Tennant admitted. “He was full of danger. Will tried to pull three days before we started shooting. He wanted to turn off and work on it a little more. It was madness.”
But the director said “Ever later” after they started shooting “Hitch”, “it was a bunch of good creative people who could do the best they could. There were discussions, but there were things that turned out to be really funny. Keep everything. Really fun things, you have a good movie, but it was a wild ride. “
At one point before the shooting, he said, Smith approached him with a scenario he didn’t like.
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“There was a draft that would bring that I was not a fan,” Tennant said. “I finally told the Studio that I was more afraid that the will would make that version of the movie than I was about them as I was blowing me. Because I knew they were right on the edge of the shoot before we started shooting at all. And, Will’s merit , we didn’t go with that draft.
Will Smith and Eva Mendes filmed a jet ski scene from “Hitch”. (Lawrence Lucier/Filmmagic)
Tennant also attributed Ko-Zvin James to Kevin James that he convinced Smith to do a scene of a movie in which two men have a random kiss, while Smith’s character coach tells James that he is going most of the way to kiss with the girl he loves.
The crew inadvertently ended up on the threshold of New York Brownstone Sarah Jessica Parker, and she let them shoot there for a scene that was originally not in the script.
“He started saying things about 90 and 10: the man goes 90% of the times, and a woman goes 10% to the first kiss,” Tennant said of the makeshift scene. “So, we got a little messed up, and then someone came with the keys to jerk. Then Kevin riffs on some things. All that was just an idea.”
Will Smith and Andy Tennant with the rest of the cast “Hitch”, including Amber Valletta, Eva Mendes and Kevin James. (Stephane Cardinal/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Tennant said he wrote a scene in the flight that afternoon with one of the producers, but “Will was still cared for by the scene. Kevin James told him,” That’s really funny. That will be a good scene. “And, thank God for Kevin because he got Will to shoot him.”
“That scene is 5½ pages long, written that day. It’s one of the best scenes in the movie,” he said. “At three o’clock we shot the scene at 5 and a half and then went to dinner with Amy Pascal.”
Pascal was President Sony at the time.
Tennant said Smith also didn’t want to make an Ellis Island scene in a movie where Smith’s character takes Eva Mendes A historical place to show her some information about his premium that has moved to the US
Will Smith with Tennant and the “Hitch” acting. (John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images)
“Will did not want to do so because he said the blacks did not go through the island of Ellis,” Tennant explained. “I begged him to go out to Ellis Island so that at least I could perform him. It was me, Will, some of the production people, and Will’s production partner, James Lassiter, who is his best friend. So I try to save him The sequence and, here, we discover that James’s family came across the island of Ellis.
He said Smith was a great sport about when he had to jump into the water after his character accidentally expelled Mendes out of her jet ski – although Smith did not know how to swim.
“The other thing that everyone cared for was that Will couldn’t swim, so they didn’t want to put a movie star in the amount of $ 20 million in the water. And Will was like,” No, just give me a life vest, ” “He said.
“We had difficulty. The movie I wanted to make and the movie will want to make – none of these movies are as good as the movie we made together. It was a battle.”
He said when they wrapped up Smith that he hadn’t said goodbye to him.
“I think he felt the same way as I did. He thought this movie was a disaster,” he said. “We wrapped up and it was depressed.”
But both were wrong.
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“When we first saw him, it was with a test screening in Vegas, and on my right I had Will Smith on my left and Amy Pascal, which was a scary place,” Tennant admitted. “The movie ends, and the audience fully accepted the movie. People cheered when the movie ended.”
Will Smith in the “Hitch” scene after falling from the top of the car of Eva Mendes, as he expressed his love for her as he tries to take away from him. (Ian Wingfield/Getty Images)
He said Pascal turned to him and said, “You are almost. It was our first test exam.
The movie eventually made $ 371 million around the world.
Tennant said he wasn’t sticking.
“I have nothing against the will,” he emphasized. “He hired me to make this movie. It wasn’t an easy job to anyone, but we visited the world with the movie. Even tough times, you would always say, ‘Wait until Junket. We will go around the world with this. ‘And we did, and it was great.
“And when it was over, my time with Will was over. That was that. And since then I have never heard with him.”
Bounty Hunter Director “said he also had an idea to continue” Hitch “, but revealed that Smith was planning without him.
“I filed a proposal to continue, which was quite fun, but I suppose Will would develop a continuation of” Hitch “without me,” he said. “I just found out about it three months ago. I had a really good idea to continue and I talked to Sony’s executive director, and he said that Will’s Production Company developed a sequel. Hey, that’s Hollywood.”
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