American film star Rosario Dawson said the cast of Italian director Gabriele Muccino's long-awaited new movie ''cried for days'' while on set from the emotion of shooting several scenes.
Speaking from the Ischia Film & Music Global Fest, Dawson described Seven Pounds - Muccino's second Hollywood outing since The Pursuit of Happyness in 2006 - as ''a love story with a shocking and moving finale''.
The 29-year-old actress plays the terminally ill Emily, while Will Smith is the suicidal Ben, grief-stricken over a recent tragedy.
''We meet when we are both feeling shattered and are on the brink of putting an end to things, but instead love blossoms. Gabriele wanted to show the double face of existence: sorrow and the happiness of love,'' she said.
Dawson had a starring role in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse: Death Proof (2007) and has also worked with Spike Lee and Oliver Stone.
Seven Pounds will be released in January 2009.
Muccino is the only Italian director to have broken into Hollywood in recent years.
The Rome-born director's first four films were all relatively low-budget Italian ones, although he won a string of awards for them here.
His biggest Italian hit, The Last Kiss, earned Muccino an Italian Oscar for best direction and went on to win the Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Smith was so impressed with the film that he personally picked Muccino to direct The Pursuit of Happyness, which became a box office hit and won Smith an Oscar nomination for best actor.
