A Two-Faced Career for David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer is known worldwide for his role as Ross in Friends. Alongside Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc, the actor wore the model for ten seasons one of the most iconic series ever created.
Aside from his role as Ross, David Schwimmer also starred other great television works. HOW Brothers in Arms AND American Crime History. In the cinema, his career so far has been a little different. Why hasn’t he gotten a major role? such an amazing feature film compared to the previously mentioned series. However, it had the opportunity…
The actor refused Men in Black !
British comedian Cush Jumbo recently launched his own podcast, Origins with Cush Jumbo. One of his first guests was none other than David Schwimmer. During this episode, the actor revealed that he turned down a role in a cult film during his career: Men in Black. He explained that he had to make a choice between he plays in this film and directs his first feature film, Ten years later. He then chose this option:
That was the summer window when I wasn’t shooting Friends. I had a four-month break and “Men in Black” was going to be shot exactly when I was shooting the first movie.
During the show with Cush Jumbo, the Ross interpreter admitted that he didn’t know if he had done it “he made the right decision.” But if he had accepted the role in Men in Blackhis relationship with the cast members of his feature film “it probably would have ended.” Why bring Ten years laterDavid Schwimmer invited the actors of his theater company. And, in his own words, they all left their jobs come and make this film.
A role that would make him “a movie star” ?
David Schwimmer still thinks his career would have been very different if he had accepted the role Men in Black. He acknowledges that this proposal was “an incredible opportunity.” Now he thinks that accepting it would have made him “a movie star”, and that his career could take “a very different trajectory.”
Despite everything, the actor and director he kept his word towards the actors of his theatre company, which he then directed Ten years later. David Schwimmer directed two more feature films after this one. First, the comedy Always manage Dennisreleased in 2007, then the drama Trustpresented in 2010.
Source: Cine Serie
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