miller directed this, and danny futterman wrote it. >> it hurts to tell your friends know. at kind of friend are you? >> danny was the factor behind all this because he gave it to bennett, and he basically hounded been it for a while. they came and got me on board with a certain kind of coercion, but even then we didn't have money or any backing. discuss thei would denial we were in about it would never happen. bebe it won't, and that will a good thing. we were pretty scared of it. we finally got someone to take the risk, and oh no, we have got to do it. i was pretty scared. tavis: what were you struggling with? >> it wasn't the obvious things i think about. the technicality of playing him. i think that challenge was there. i know i am bigger than him. i knew i could trim down. i knew i could work on those things and hopefully get there, but it was really the way he was and what made him take. there was an intensity of watching him over and over again that individually i was intimidated by it. i think he intimidated me. his confidence, his boldness. the way he was able to sa