James Caan has stepped down from the political comedy Nailed after a dispute with director David O. Russell over what appears to be a cookie.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the trouble started Wednesday on the first of Caan's two days of shooting the role of a U.S. speaker of the house who chokes to death on a cookie. Russell asked him to cough as he choked, but Caan argued that the character couldn't cough and choke to death at the same time.

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