Ben Stiller

Like if someone wanted to talk to him, he would...

He would, you know, get into conversations about their family, and it would just go on and on.

He used to drive my mother crazy.

And as kids, we would feel that, you know, when you're little, you feel that your parents' attention being taken away from you.

So I was talking about that with Quinn, my son, and he interrupts me.

I was surprised yet not surprised.

I was surprised that he actually brought that up in that moment and that

The example he was using was so recent, but in that moment I was like, okay, this is actually probably a really good moment for the movie.

But I also, as a person, was feeling like, oh, this is really, gosh.

And all I could say in the moment was like, oh, yeah, I guess I have a lot of my dad in me, or more of my dad in me than my mom.

It's just that realization that, and it wasn't a new realization for me, but, you know, that thing of like you really try to do better than your parents, but it's very hard to not make some of the same mistakes that they make.

I wasn't aware.

No, I was not.

You know, what surprised me about what he said was because he's 20, that that had happened, like he said, like last week.

And I thought, well, I thought, well, this is something that happened when he was little, you know.

But the fact that he it actually like affected him still at this age, you know, that actually really did hit me, you know, just as an awareness of like, yeah, this is a reality that he had to live with.

I had to live with my own version of it with my parents.

But it's a tough thing.

I mean, it was life changing for him.

Yeah.