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Bobby Cannavale Talks About "The Devil and Daniel Webster"

By Rebecca Murray, About.com

What happened to "The Devil and Daniel Webster?"
You tell me. I don't know what happened to that. We shot that like two years ago, and I don't know. Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dan Aykroyd... It seemed like it had everything going for it, and it was fun to work on. That was just like a phone call. Alec called me and was like, "Hey, you want to do this scene?" And it was a funny scene and I said, "Sure," and went and shot it. I don't know what happened with it and I've never asked him. I run into him all the time, but if you know Alec, you don't touch anything that can set him off so I never ask about it.

What's the character you play in that scene?
He's just a cop. Alec asked a lot of people to do a scene here and a scene there, like Daryl Hannah, and then me, and Molly Shannon. It was cool because it's a pivotal scene. It's the scene when he first meets Jennifer Love Hewitt; she's the devil. Alec plays this failed writer. He's writing and he throws this typewriter out the window and it kills somebody. Then she shows up and says to him, "The cops should be here any minute. You going to make this deal or are you going to go to jail for the rest of your life?" And then I'm the cop. In the middle of the scene, she answers the door and then I say, "Who throw the typewriter out the window?" And she goes, "What window?" I look and the window is not broken anymore because she's the devil. She's changed the whole thing.

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