David Schwimmer Questions If Turning Down ‘Men In Black’ Role Was “Right Choice”

It was kind of a bomb.

Of course it was an amazing opportunity, he said.

I mean, you have to follow your gut, you have to follow your heart.

A red carpet photo of David Schwimmer; a ‘Men in Black’ still of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones wearing black suits and pointing futuristic guns

David Schwimmer recalls nearly being cast in ‘Men in Black’.Angela Weiss/AFP/Courtesy Everett Collection

Schwimmer continued, My theater company and that relationship with all of those people would probably have ended.

I dont think it would have recovered.

I mean, those people had quit their jobs to do that movie.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones inMen in Black(1997).