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Filming the Last Scene: Vaughn addressed the rumored reshoots of the final scene: ?When we did the movie Swingers, we didn't know what the last scene of the movie was until we started shooting. We always knew there would be a last scene, which ended up being me in the diner with Mike and the baby. We shot the entire movie Made and we waited to know what is that last scene.

Whenever you're summing up movies like these character-driven movies that are more about a journey and moments and learning and not so much about a final answer, it always is a question to be raised.

The ending that we ended up shooting is exactly like the ending we shot originally, just a better version of it. We realized what the journey was and how these characters were changed by their action and not so much about, 'Will they or won't they?' and more so about, 'If they do, it would probably go very well, because they definitely, you can tell, in a real way learned their lessons.'

Gary goes and does his stuff with his family separate of her, because he's forever changed. She makes a decision, even there when she's on the phone, she has a meeting, she doesn't say, 'Hey, let's get something to eat.' She says, 'I gotta go to a meeting.' She has her life coming first, so I think it's hopeful that way. And if they don't, there's still a great love and thankfulness there for each other and lessons learned and their next relationship would be a healthier better relationship.

So, on that particular one, as we had our one ending in place, we went and reshot - well, not reshot, but shot - versions.

We did a couple different things. There were different people weighing in. I have to say that Universal was extremely supportive. This is not your traditional type of romantic comedy. There's a lot of fear on their end, a studio's end, when you're doing something different. There's a reason why Swingers was made for what it was made and those kind of movies, but they were very supportive and open to this. My way of working, even in Swingers when I wasn't credited, I was very collaborative in the writing and decision making. All of us were, it's just the way that I like to work, knowing that you always can go for what is the best. But it's very fair to take ideas and let everyone take the journey.

What came clear to them and all of us very well was it wasn't about that - satisfying that or not satisfying that - it was that the original intention of the screenplay was the right intention for what this movie was, and it worked out really perfect. Forget all the things about whether they went back and shot or didn't shoot, which happens on most movies, just about every movie I've done. It made more sense and it worked for the character in that, as time has passed, Gary takes better care of himself. He's got his boat. He's a different person. He's shopping - it shows change without dialogue and exposition. He's self-deprecating about the weight that he's in, so he's a different person, has a sense of humor about stuff. So for the pure story, it's the perfect thing.

Again, when you do a movie like Swingers or like Made you're not under the microscope as much and on those movies it was always our journey. You have to go through process, for me anyway, of editing such a tonally different movie, tones that are different... What is the satisfying answer? When I say 'satisfying', what is the only answer? And to me, ultimately, this became the only truthful, simple real answer that could be made.?

Because the scene was shot after time had passed, Vaughn?s weight loss is very noticeable. ?Where the weight is concerned, there's nothing that's that complimentary to me,? said Vaughn. ?I was such a genius that I quit smoking before we started shooting the movie, something I wanted to do for a long time. I had quit smoking for eight months and just in time to put on 25 pounds for the romantic comedy. And then, when I finished shooting and we wrapped the movie, I said to myself, 'Well, I can have just one cigarette. I mean, it's been eight months, what's the big deal?' And then again I was up to a pack a day, so I lost the weight then after, because when you quit smoking, you tend to eat a lot and then when you start smoking it kind of curbs your appetite, so there was no great character choice in that. It just sort of worked out well for everything.?