David Schwimmer recently said on the “Origins with Cush Jumbo” podcast that he’s well aware how different his career would been had he not rejected the offer to lead 1997’s “Men in Black.” The actor’s popularity was skyrocketing at the time as he was a few seasons into “Friends.” He decided to direct his own movie instead of acting in “Men in Black.”
“[It] was a brutal decision,” Schwimmer said. “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. It was kind of a bomb but there were high expectations and the studio, which
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