The premiere of a comedy in Hollywood can be likened to the flip of a coin that takes on a completely vertical flight. with the sole objective of landing on one of its faces to let chance unblock a situation that, probably, could not be resolved through the usual channels of life. Ben Stiller He knows it well: he has emulated the numismatic flying route, kissing the sky of Los Angeles with humorous films and crashing into the ground on more than one occasion. Of all of them, there was one fall that, he says, he will not forget.
It was on David Duchovny’s podcast where he told an anecdote that is surprising due to the harshness of his words and the recentness of the event. The interpreter comes to say that his worst blow as an actor was in 2016, when he saw the light Zoolander 2; setback that was doubly painful due to its unexpectedness: It was the second part of a film released in 2001 that enjoyed notable success. However, the delay – as well as how bad it was – kept all those who wanted to leave the movie theaters. they mistakenly trusted that the last work would live up to their memory.
“The idea of losing my grace scared me”
“I thought everyone would want to see it. And then it was like: ‘Wow, I must have really screwed up. Nobody has gone to see her. And she’s had these horrible reviews”summarizes Stiller, who has no choice but to summarize in an innocent phrase the cold and stinging sensation that was flying over his head: “I didn’t know it was that bad.”
In fact, the ‘punch’ that reality dealt him was such that the excess of empty seats translated into a kind of creatively necessary but, perhaps, mentally toxic introspection: “What scared me the most was the idea that I was losing grace and the ability to question myself.”
“In Zoolander 2 I went blind. And it’s clear that that affected me for a long time.”, he reflects. The boxer has some vital learning in the technique of his fight by studying the blow to avoid it in the next fight; Stiller did the same: “I had the space to stay alone with myself and take the hit, and that gave me time to pursue other projects I had been working on, some of which were not comedies.”
“Even if someone had said ‘well, why don’t you do another comedy?’ “It’s possible that something had occurred to me.”extends the limit of his regret, making its resolution a simple matter: “But I simply didn’t want to.”
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