“I don’t know if I made the right choice,” the “Friends” star says.

Imagine it:David Schwimmer, blockbuster action star.

“We started pre-production,” he explained.

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David Schwimmer in 2024.Dia Dipasupil/Getty

The offer couldn’t have come at a worse time.

“My summer window fromFriendswas four months,” he said.

To sayMen in Blacksmashed the box office to pieces in the summer of 1997 would be an understatement.

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“That relationship with all those people would probably have ended,” Schwimmer concurred.

Listen to Jumbo’s full conversation with Schwimmer above.