Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Turned Mr and Mrs Smith Into Action Movie  6/7/05

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie forced Hollywood bosses to switch their new film Mr and Mrs Smith from a comedy into a full-scale action movie - because they wanted to see who could perform the best stunts.

The screen stars, whose friendship since meeting on the movie's set has sparked rumors of a romance, had so much fun with their action scenes, they constantly asked bosses for more - turning the film into a personal competition.

Jolie says, "(The film) was written very much as a comedy and there was a little bit of action in it.

"The stunt coordinator was the stunt coordinator that did the Tomb Raiders and also did Troy.

"So this person came in to do these little action sequences that were written on half a page and realized that the two people who were working on the film loved action, so suddenly this two day action scene became a three week thing where we were saying, 'Why do you have a slide? I don't have a slide across the floor! And I wanna scale down and I wanna go through the glass!'

"We're both very competitive and very aggressive so everything escalated into these really huge fight scenes... We still argue about who's a better shot."