After all the meetings, all the offers, all the let’s-make-a-deals and we-want-to-be-in-the-Kevin-Hart-businesses and our-lawyers-will-call-your-lawyers, I decided to work with a true closer—not just someone who would throw money or a good script at me but someone who was willing to fight every step of the way to get a project made, released, and properly promoted. Someone whose work ethic I personally trusted: Will Packer. Why end a relationship that’s working and growing? Will believed in me when I wasn’t number one at the box office, and that was something I would never get to experience in
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