Following 'one of the worst table reads of all time,' Bill Pullman wanted to quit 'While You Were Sleeping' but his agent told him he couldn't since he'd just quit his last film.
The rom-com got off to a bumpy start, including numerous script revisions that led to "one of the worst table reads of all time."wanted to quit the 1995 romantic comedy, but was told by his agent that after quitting his most recent film gig, he couldn't quit another one.
"We went to Chicago and we did a read-through, a table read of the script," Glickman explains. "And the script was kind of a cut-and-paste of the stuff that the original guys had written and the new person had written. And then Jon , I think, did sort of a polish to make it make sense." "We had a table read and it was one of the worst table reads of all time," he continues. "It just tanked. Nothing got a laugh, The energy was dead. We had these incredible professional actors there, real pros — it was painful. And we knew it didn't work."approached Glickman about switching roles as a potential fix.
Eventually, the original writers returned and vastly improved the script during the final week of preparation, and the rest is rom-com history: The tale of a luminous Chicago Transit Authority worker accidentally lying her way into the life of the handsome, heavily-browed, comatose stranger she's never spoken to, only to fall in love with his younger brother grossed $182 at the global box office and nabbed Bullock a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, while establishing her as a...
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