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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

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Fresh Air
Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

I remember he took me for a drive and he parked the car and he said, look, let's just meditate a little bit.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And like he had me close my eyes and just picture a color.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

I think it was like purple or something.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

He said, just like think of it as a soothing color.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And I don't know if he had been doing some therapy himself that he had this idea to do this, but he was just actually, you know, really trying to help me kind of, you know,

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

soothe myself and get over this event.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And as opposed to like a parent who was like, you know, like, never do that again.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And, you know, you're grounded or whatever.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Yeah.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

I mean, that's interesting, you know, because that's one of those things you don't think about.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

It's just like this visceral gut reaction.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And that's what I did.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And, you know, I guess that does say something about our relationship.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Yeah.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

But he was always, for me, a very spiritual person and very – I think that's what people connected with him too because he had just like a really open heart.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Right.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Yeah, I was talking to my son about how, yeah, growing up with my parents, they would get recognized.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And on the street, my mom usually wouldn't want to talk to people for a long time or she'd say hi, but she wanted to just go on and just keep doing her thing.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And my dad would talk to people forever.