Will Smith becoming a rom-com legend didn’t go off without a hitch. The actor, 56, starred opposite Eva Mendes in 2005’s “Hitch,” and now the film’s director Andy Tennant revealed it wasn’t smooth sailing working alongside the onscreen lead.

Andy Tennant, the director of the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, said that Will Smith is developing a sequel to the film but did not include him.

Tennant also claimed that just three days before filming was set to begin, Smith wanted to delay production. "He wanted to work on it some more," the director alleged, explaining

Director Andy Tennant is finally telling that story as the film approaches its 20th anniversary. "There was a lot of fear doing a big, expensive romantic comedy with [star Will Smith]," the filmmaker behind another gold standard of aughts rom-coms,

Hitch director Andy Tennant recalls the “difficulties” in filming Hitch and working with Will Smith. In a new interview, the filmmaker looked back at how it was shooting the 2005 romantic comedy that also starred Eva Mendes,