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David Schwimmer Recalls Turning Down ‘Men in Black’: “That Would Have Made Me a Movie Star”

The 'Friends' alum admits it was a "brutal decision," but was already focused on his directorial debut.

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.” The Intelligence actor said after months of negotiations, they agreed that he “would act in three more movies for them” if they let him “direct my entire theater company in the first film,” 1998’s Since You’ve Been Gone. However, his production for his directorial debut ended up overlapping with Men in Black filming, leading Schwimmer to make a difficult career decision.

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