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Director Thomas Bidegain Denies Jake Gyllenhaal’s Behavior Ruined Their Film, but Says ‘We Didn’t Have the Same Vision’
French director Thomas Bidegain sets the record straight on what happened with 'Suddenly,' his film with Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby.
He also claims that, contrary to what is suggested in the French article, the company which financed “Suddenly,” Studiocanal, didn’t lose $26 million because the project wasn’t in production when things fell apart with the leads. “I’d send the updated script every week, and had a nice back-and-forth with [Pulitzer Prize-winning author] David Lindsay-Abaire, who was working with Jake on the development,” Bidegain says. Confiming one part of the Technikart story — about the stars’ rewrite demands — Bidegain says: “But when we started reading the script in the same room, we realized that we didn’t have at all the same vision of what the film was meant to be.
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