Ben Stiller
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Podcast Appearances
And so they would send a limousine.
Again, this was very exciting for us as kids.
They'd send a limousine up to New York, and we'd go down with my parents in the limo.
They'd do two shows in the morning.
We'd go to a restaurant called Bookbinders for lunch that I remember as a kid where they had lobsters in a tank, and it was just all very, you know, really exciting.
Then they'd go do the other shows and go home.
And I guess one time they brought us on, you know, because they were just looking for bits to do.
And I think when I watch them laughing at it, I see them laughing at,
But also like inside because we're so not good.
But they're like, oh, this is all right.
The audience is enjoying this, but we're kind of like, oh, I want my kids to do good.
But and also like, why did we put them in this situation?
I feel all that when I look at their faces.
I mean, I even did it with my daughter and I have that in the movie, too, where I put her in Secret Life of Walter Mitty when she was eight and then I cut the part out, which I don't recommend ever doing that.
But I put her in the movie and then I cut the scene out of the movie because the scene wasn't, you know, right for the movie.
But, of course, my daughter remembers that I cut her out when she was eight years old.
But it was the same feeling, though, on the set.
You put a kid in that situation.
As it was happening, I'm like, oh, man, this is so much pressure on her.