Andy Tennant, the director of Hitchrevealed that he had difficulty dealing with Will Smith during the romantic comedy production in 2005.

The film in which the Oscar winner plays a professional date doctor is considered one of his best hits.

However Bad Boys Star had creative differences with the filmmaker, which the latter described as a “battle.”

“We had our difficulties. The movie I would make and the movie would have wanted to make any of these movies is as good as the movie we made together,” he said Business Insider.

“It was a fight. [Smith’s wife] Jada [Pinkett Smith] was a great help. She posted kind of some of my instincts. There was a time under Prep when I pushed back. A lot of crazy shit that happened. “

The filmmaker remembered the differences with him began to emerge from the start.

“There was a draft that brought in that I wasn’t a fan of. I finally told the studio that I was more afraid of doing that version of the movie than I was shooting,” 69-year-old added.

“Because I knew they were right at the edge of shooting me before we even started shooting. And to Will’s credit we didn’t go with that draft. I don’t think I was ever in anyone.”

Deadlock was so elaborated that Andy claimed that “tried to go out three days before we started shooting” to work on the manuscript and noticed, “he would shut down and work on it more. It was madness.”

But at the end, when the shooting began, he said the differences gradually began to bleed down.

“It was a lot of good creative people who did the best they could. There were some debates but there were things that turned out really fun. You keep all the really fun things you have a good movie but it was A wild trip, “Andy concluded.