Director Malcolm D. Lee instructed Morris to break down crying when the casket descends into the ground, and not a second before. But Morris revealed that on the first take, the casket got stuck and wouldn’t go down.

“He said, ‘Action,’ and it didn’t go down,” Morris told BuzzFeed. “I was just waiting, holding it in, and waiting. And then I wasn’t crying, so he goes, ‘Cut, cut. Morris, what are you doing?'”

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganmurrell/morris-chestnut-best-man-challenging-scenes