David Schwimmer opened up on being offered one of the popular movies of the decade, Men in Black. However, the actor turned down the Will Smith starrer.

In conversation with Cush Jumbo on his podcast, Schwimmer claimed that he does not regret his decision to not do the film, he believes making an appearance in the film would have given a good boost to his career in movies. Opening up about the reason for rejecting the film, the actor revealed that the project was clashing with his dates on Friends. 

The 1997 film starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the lead roles. With the movie releasing in theaters, Smith went on to become the star in the film industry, along with the former, who was already a legend in Hollywood. 

While talking to the podcast host, the Madagascar actor shared, “[It] was a brutal decision.” He further added, “I had just finished filming The Pallbearer, my first film with Gwyneth Paltrow, and there were high expectations of that, which didn’t come true (Laughs). It was kind of a bomb but there were high expectations and the studio, which was Miramax, wanted to lock me into a three-picture deal at a fixed price and I said I would do that if I got to direct my first movie.” 

Florence Pugh has been delivering hits after hits with films like Christopher Nolan’s Oscar winning Oppenheimer and Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune: Part 2. Having recently completed Marvel’s Thunderbolts and in between promoting her upcoming romantic drama We Live in Time, Pugh has been hustling non-stop for a while. 

Despite being a “work manic” the actress realized she needed a much deserved break. “[It’s] the first time ever in my career when I’ve actually asked for a summer break,” she said during her interview with British Vogue. The Little Women actress recalled having an epiphany last year about “how much of my life I’ve missed” and decided to take a breather from work. 

After enjoying her summer break, Pugh attended the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of her film We Live in Time with her co-star Andrew Garfield. The film is a decade spanning tragic yet wholesome love story of Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh) who accidentally meet, fall in love, build a life and fight a major battle together. Helmed by John Crowley the film follows a non-linear pattern of story telling, jumping multiple timelines. 

The Oceans’ duo, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, were heavily praised at the Venice Film Festival, where the movie was first premiered. One of the highly anticipated films of the year has been directed by Jon Watts, who is also known to direct the Tom Holland starrer, The Spider-Man Trilogy. In conversation with Entertainment Weekly, the filmmaker opened up on how he staged the idea of bringing two veteran actors back on screen with the crime-comedy genre. 

Explaining how Watts got the actors to sign up for the film, the director went on to state that it all started in New York, where he got the motivation to pen the film. Watts explained to the media portal, “That was so stupid of me. I wrote the movie; I could have written it anywhere. I could have written it at any time of year. I chose New York at night.”

The director went on to further say, “I live here, I love New York, and I’ve been shooting Spider-Man movies that are supposed to be in New York in Atlanta for the last seven years.” 

Meanwhile, Watt revealed that both Pitt and Clooney were looking for projects to work on at the time. The duo read the script and liked Watt’s idea. The filmmaker revealed, “It’s one of those ideas that doesn’t really work unless it’s the two of them. That’s where it came from.” He further added, “But the big difference is that you don’t often get the opportunity to pitch something like that to those two guys.”