It may seem like just another drama, but the themes that were being dealt with in Addicted almost led the director to pack up shop because he couldn't find an actress to take on the lead role.

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The film's director, Billie Woodruff, spoke with The Wrap on Monday and talked about the process the movie went through initially and how that almost ended with a dead project.

"It was very difficult to find an actress who was willing to do everything that was required for the film and to be fearless, because she has to have sex with three guys," he said.

The film, which stars Sharon Leal in the lead, had to find its lead actress and before Leal joined, it was looking tricky to find the right one.

"We approached her [Leal] and she was into it," Woodruff said, "She told me, 'I really don't want to shy away from the sex; I don't want it to seem like we're dancing around it.' And I thought, 'This is really the right person.'"

He added that he found inspiration for the movie in 2002's Unfaithful starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, so much so that it influenced him in his casting of William Levy as the lover.

"The Olivier Martinez character ... that's where I got the idea from to have someone Latin and it was really more about trying make sure that the main character came across as having something a little different, and kind of exotic; there was a fantasy element to it," he said. "William was cast because I wanted hot people in the movie."

Addicted has pulled in $12.7 million domestically so far in its theater run and is still open.

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