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While the Will Smith-The romantic comedy led “Hitch” may seem calm, which was everything but the director revealed this week.
Andy Tennant, who had just directed the Reese Witherspoon Classic Rom-Comm 2002 “Sweet Home Alabama” He told Business Insider this week that he and Smith constantly turned off the 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 Wednesday.
“We had our difficulties. The movie I wanted to make and the movie wanted to make, none of those films is as good as the movie we made together. It was a battle.”
While the romantic comedy led by Will Smith “Hitch” may seem calm, which was everything but the director revealed this week. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis through Getty Images)
He told him at the exit that, three days before they were scheduled to start filming the movie, Smith tried to close it so he could continue working on the script.
“I think there was a lot of fear making a big and expensive romantic comedy,” Tennant admitted. “I was full of danger. Will tried to go back three days before he started shooting. He wanted to close and work on it a little more. It was crazy.”
But the director of “Ever After” once said that they began to shoot “hook”, “it was a lot of good creative people who did the best they could. There were some debates, but there were things that were really funny. You keep all things all the things Really fun, you have a good movie.
In a moment before filming began, he said, Smith approached him with a draft of the script he did not love.
“There was a draft that caused he was not a fan,” said Tennant. “Finally I told the study that I was afraid that Will was doing that version of the movie than about them. We didn’t go with that draft.
Will Smith and Eva Mendes film the Jet Ski scene from “Hitch.” (Lawrence Lucier/Filmmagic)
Tennant also accredited co -star Kevin James with convincing Smith to make the movie scene in which the two men have accidental kiss, while Smith’s dating coach character tells James how to go most of the I walk for a kiss with the girl you like.
The crew ended up unadverted at the door of the reddish stone of New York by Sarah Jessica Parker, and she let them shoot there for a scene that was not originally in the script.
“Will began to say things about 90 and 10: a man goes 90% of the road, and the woman goes 10% in a first kiss,” Tennant said about the improvised scene. “Then, we got that for a moment, and then it occurred to the keys that Jingling. Then Kevin was riffo some things. Everything was just an idea.”
Will Smith and Andy Tennant with the rest of the “Hitch” cast, including Amber Valletta, Eva Mendes and Kevin James. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis through Getty Images)
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Tennant said he wrote the scene on the march with one of the producers that afternoon, but “Will was still worried about the scene. Kevin James said:” It’s really fun. It will be a good scene. “And thank God for Kevin, because he got the will to shoot him.
“That scene has 5½ pages, written that day. It is one of the best scenes in the movie,” he said. “We fired a 5½ -page scene in three hours and then we went to dinner with Amy Pascal.”
Pascal was Sony’s president at that time.
Tennant said Smith didn’t want to make Ellis Island’s scene in the film in which Smith’s character takes Eva Mendes to the historical place to show information about his ancestor that emigrated to the United States
Will Smith with Tennant and the cast of “Hitch”. (John Macdougall/AFP through Getty Images)
“Will did not want to do it because he said that blacks did not come through Ellis Island,” Tennant explained. “I begged him to go to Ellis Island to be able to at least throw it. I was me, Will, some of the production people, and Will’s producer, James Lassiter, who is his best friend. So I am trying to save The sequence and, here, we discovered that James’s family arrived through Ellis Island.
He said that Smith was a great sport on the sequence when he has to jump into the water after his character accidentally kicks Mendes from his water motorcycle, although Smith did not know how to swim.
“The other thing so everyone was worried was that Will cannot swim, so they didn’t want ” said.
“We had our difficulties. The movie I wanted to make and the movie wanted to make, none of those films is as good as the movie we made together. It was a battle.”
He said that when they wrapped Smith did not say goodbye to him.
“I think he felt the same as me. He thought this movie is a disaster,” he said. “We wrapped and it was depressing.”
But both were wrong.
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“When we first saw it, it was with a test exam in Las Vegas, and I had Will Smith to my left and Amy Pascal on my right, which was a horrible place to be,” Tennant admitted. “The movie ends and the audience has completely adopted the movie. People cheered when the movie ended.”
Will Smith in a “Hitch” scene after he falls from the top of Eva Mendes while professes her love while she tries to get away from him. (Ian Wingfield/Getty Images)
He said Pascal turned to him and said: “‘You finished. Get out and send it.’ That was our first and last test exam.
The film ended up winning $ 371 million worldwide.
Tennant said he does not hold a grudge.
“I have nothing against Will,” he emphasized. “He hired me to make this movie. It was not an easy job for anyone, but we turned the world around with the movie. Even difficult times always said: ‘Wait to garbage. Let’s go around. The world with this. And We did it, and it was great.
“And when it ended, my time with Will was over. That was all. And I’ve never had news of him since then.”
The director of “The Bounty Hunter” said he also had an idea for a sequel to “hook”, but discovered that Smith was planning his without him.
“I presented a proposal for a sequel, which was quite funny, but I suppose that Will is developing a sequel to ‘hooking’ without me,” he said. “I just found out three months ago. I had a very good idea for a sequel, and I was talking to an executive in Sony, and said that Will’s production company is developing a sequel. Hello, that is Hollywood.”
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