Bill Pullman‘s turn in the 1995 hit rom-com “While You Were Sleeping” may have been iconic, but he was desperate to get out of it pre-production.The film’s producer, Jonathan Glickman, revealed that the “Casper” alum, 70, was not allowed to quit the movie — because he’d just abandoned a previous project.According to Glickman, the initial screenplay was a dumpster fire, having gone through many rounds of edits and even a screenwriter change.“We went to Chicago and we did a read-through, a table read of the script,” Glickman said on the “Hollywood Gold” podcast. “And the script was kind of a cut-and-paste of the stuff that the original guys had written and the new person had written.“And then Jon [Turteltaub, the director], I think, did sort of a polish to make it make sense,” he added.The former MGM executive recalled that the table read was “one of the worst” of all time.He continued: “It just tanked.