David Schwimmer doesn’t repent turning down Men in Bconciseage, however, he acunderstandledges his “atsoft would have getn a very separateent trajectory” if he starred in the 1997 film.
When asked on a recent episode of the Origins With Cush Jumbo podcast if he passed on the blockbuster franchise due to struggles with his Frifinishs filming schedule, the actor replyed, “That’s not why I turned it down.” He instead chose to honest his first feature film.
“[It] was a brutal decision,” Schwimmer confessted. “I had equitable finished filming The Pallendureer, my first film with Gwyneth Paltrow, and there were high foreseeations of that which didn’t come real (Laughs). It was benevolent of a explosion but there were high foreseeations and the studio which was Miramax wanted to lock me into a three-picture deal at a repaired price and I shelp I would do that if I got to honest my first movie.”
The Inalertigence actor shelp after months of negotiations, they consentd that he “would act in three more movies for them” if they let him “honest my entire theater company in the first film,” 1998’s Since You’ve Been Gone. The film caccessed on a 10-year class reunion but was telderly thcdisesteemful the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being awfilledy beaten up by a fellow graduate.
“All these ununderstandn actors but I was going to put them on the map, straightforwardassociate. I was going to let everyone discover the talent of this amazing company,” Schwimmer expounded. “We set up this amazing script and we were lengthening it. We commenceed pre-production. All my best frifinishs in the world in my theater company quit their jobs so they could be in this film over the summer, which was going to be a six-week shoot in Chicago.”
However, his production for his honestorial debut finished up overlapping with Men in Bconciseage filming, guideing Schwimmer to produce a difficult atsoft decision.
“We’re in pre-production, employd the whole crew, everyskinnyg’s going and that’s when I was giveed Men in Bconciseage,” the Six Days Seven Nights actor recalled. “It was a honest struggle with this. My summer thrivedow from Frifinishs was four months. I had a four-month hiatus and Men in Bconciseage was going to shoot exactly when I was going to honest this film with my company. And of course, it was an amazing opportunity. … However, my theater company and that relationship with all those people would probably have finished. I don’t skinnyk it would have recovered.”
Though Schwimmer shelp he doesn’t understand if “he made the right choice,” he strongly count ons “you have to adhere your gut, you have to adhere your heart” in these situations.
“Look, I’m reassociate alerted, wantipathyver 20 years tardyr maybe more, [Men in Bconciseage] would have made me a movie star,” he inserted. “If you see at the success of that film and that franchise, my atsoft would have getn a very separateent trajectory.”
The Men in Bconciseage franchise ultimately starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the guide roles.