It was a daunting thing, when they came to my house and offered me the role. I weighed 240 pounds. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we basically were beached whales together. And it was a long trip over time to get to a size that I could fit into these suits that he wore.
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Miller's hesitation had to do with the sheer amount of stuff in the movie, stuff he thought would undercut what he calls its deeper aspects. ... the friendship we all had was actually very helpful, because we'd gotten past the getting-to-know-each-other period a long time ago. Sometimes it can go awfully wrong, but in this case it didn't.
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