While the Will Smith-Led romantic comedy “Hitch” may seem easy to handle, making it all, except, the director unveiled this week.
Andy Tennant, who had just directed the 2002 Reese Witherspoon Classic ROM-COM “Sweet Home Alabama,” This week, Business Insider told that he and Smith constantly bump heads while they were in pre-production for the “Hitch” of 2005.
“I didn’t want cheap jokes, but he didn’t trust me,” Tennant told the outlet in an interview published on Wednesday.
“We had our difficulties. The film I wanted to make and made the film – none of the two films is as good as the film we made together. It was a fight.”
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While the romantic comedy “Hitch” led by Will Smith may seem easy, it was anything but the director unveiled this week. (Stephane Cardinal/Corbis via Getty images)
He told the outlet that three days before they were planned to photograph the film, Smith tried to close so that he could continue to work on the script.
“I think there was a lot of fear of doing a big, expensive romantic comedy with Will,” Tennant admitted. “It was loaded with danger. Will tried to withdraw three days before we started photographing. He wanted to close it and work on it. It was madness.”
But the “ever after” director said once they started shooting “Hitch”, “It was a bunch of good creative people who did the best they could. There were some debates, but there were things that turned out to be really funny. Really really. Nice things, you have a good movie “
At one point before photographing started, he said, Smith approached him with a sketch of the script that he didn’t like.
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“There was a concept that brought in where I was not a fan,” Tennant said. “I finally told the studio that I was more afraid of making that version of the movie than I was to get rid of me. Because I knew they were exactly on the edge of dismissing me before we even started to start Photographing.
Will Smith and Eva Mendes film the Jetski scene of “Hitch”. (Lawrence Lucier/Filmmagic)
Tennant has also credited co-star Kevin James with convincing Smith to do the scene of the film in which the two men have a casual kiss, while Smith’s Dating Coach character James tells how to go the most away for a kiss with the girl that he likes.
The crew unintentionally ended up in front of Sarah Jessica Parker’s New York Brownstone, and she let them shoot there for a scene that was originally not in the script.
“Will began to say things about 90 and 10: a man goes 90% of the road, and the woman goes 10% on a first kiss,” Tennant said about the spontaneous scene. “So we tampered with that a bit and then someone thought the keys to the keys. Then Kevin was rifling some things. It was all just an idea.”
Will Smith and Andy Tennant with the rest of the cast of “Hitch”, including Amber Valletta, Eva Mendes and Kevin James. (Stephane Cardinal/Corbis via Getty images)
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Tennant said he wrote the scene with one of the producers that afternoon with one of the producers, but “Will was still worried about the scene. Kevin James told him:” It’s really funny. It will be a good scene. “And thank goodness for Kevin, because he got Will to shoot it.”
“That scene is 5½ pages long, written on that day. It is one of the best scenes in the film,” he said. “We shot a 5½ pages scene in three hours and then went out to dinner with Amy Pascal.”
Pascal was the chairman of Sony at the time.
Tennant said that Smith did not want to do the Ellis Island scene of the film in which the character takes from Smith Eva Mendes to the historic location to show her some information about her ancestor who emigrated to the US
Will Smith with Tennant and the cast of “Hitch”. (John Macdougall/AFP via Getty images)
“Will did not want to do it because he said that black people were not coming through Ellis Island,” Tennant explained. “I begged him to come to Ellis Island, so that I could pitch it at least. I was, Will, some of the production pen, and Will’s Producing Partner, James Lassiter, who is his best friend. So I try to The order to save, and see, we find out that the family of James has come through Ellis Island, so that scene is in the film “
He said that Smith was a great sport about the order when he had to jump into the water after his character accidentally kicked Mendes from her jetski – although Smith did not know how to swim.
“The other that everyone was worried about was that Will cannot swim, so they did not want to put a $ 20 million film star in the water. And Will was like:” No, just give me the lifestyle, “he said.
“We had our difficulties. The film I wanted to make and made the film – none of the two films is as good as the film we made together. It was a fight.”
He said that when they wrapped Smith, he didn’t say goodbye.
“I think he felt in the same way as me. He thought this movie is a disaster,” he said. “We wrapped and it was depressing.”
But they were both wrong.
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“When we first saw it, it was with a test screening in Vegas, and I had Will Smith on my left and Amy Pascal on the right, which was a horrible place to be,” Tennant admitted. “The film ends and the audience has completely embraced the film. People were welcoming when the film ended.”
Will Smith in a scene of “Hitch” after he falls from the top of Eva’s car as he claims his love to her while she tries to drive away from him. (Ian Wingfield/Getty images)
He said that Pascal turned to him and said, “You’re done. Box it and send it.” That was our first and final test screening.
The film earned $ 371 million worldwide.
Tennant said he doesn’t cherish a resort.
“I have nothing against Will,” he emphasized. “He hired me to make this film. It was no easy job for anyone, but we went around the world with the film. Even the difficult times he would always say: ‘Wait for the junket. We go around the world with this. “And we did that, and it was great.
“And when it was over, my time with Will was over. It was. And I have never heard of him since then.”
The director “De Bounty Hunter” said he also had an idea for a “Hitch” follow -up, but discovered that Smith without him his own plant.
“I submitted a proposal for a sequel, which was pretty nice, but I think Will will develop a ‘Hitch’ follow -up without me,” he said. “I just found out three months ago. I had a very good idea for a sequel and I spoke with a director of Sony, and he said that Will’s production company is developing a sequel. Hey, that’s Hollywood.”
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