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Ben Stiller

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The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

trying to have the sort of courage to kind of keep going for that. For me, it's figuring it out as like just what life is about. It's the big question, like, what are we here for? I haven't figured that out yet. And I think as I continue to try to figure that out while I'm still here, I feel like that's what I want to try to make the work that I do about too.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

trying to have the sort of courage to kind of keep going for that. For me, it's figuring it out as like just what life is about. It's the big question, like, what are we here for? I haven't figured that out yet. And I think as I continue to try to figure that out while I'm still here, I feel like that's what I want to try to make the work that I do about too.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

No, they're not. They're totally different. One has blonde hair and one has really dark hair. One has a mustache.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

No, they're not. They're totally different. One has blonde hair and one has really dark hair. One has a mustache.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

No, I mean, it was like, you know, like those are two of like the most fun experiences I've ever had on movies, playing those characters. And we did the reading for Dodgeball. Ross and Thurber had written the movie and was directing it. And I was like, I don't know, like what voice to do. I don't want to have that many different voices. And I kind of just went into that voice.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

No, I mean, it was like, you know, like those are two of like the most fun experiences I've ever had on movies, playing those characters. And we did the reading for Dodgeball. Ross and Thurber had written the movie and was directing it. And I was like, I don't know, like what voice to do. I don't want to have that many different voices. And I kind of just went into that voice.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

And he's like, that's great. I was like, well, I kind of did that in headway. It's just like, oh, it's all right, whatever. And I honestly never thought, not that I was like trying to like pull one over. It's just like, I never thought anybody would really like, you know, 30 years later be talking to me. Here I am. On the New York Times about like, you know, calling out heavyweights and dodgeball.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

And he's like, that's great. I was like, well, I kind of did that in headway. It's just like, oh, it's all right, whatever. And I honestly never thought, not that I was like trying to like pull one over. It's just like, I never thought anybody would really like, you know, 30 years later be talking to me. Here I am. On the New York Times about like, you know, calling out heavyweights and dodgeball.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

It just wasn't in my, you know.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

It just wasn't in my, you know.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

You didn't think about that?

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

You didn't think about that?

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

If I could go back. But no, yeah, it was just sort of like, all right, I'll just go for it and do this, do this one.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

If I could go back. But no, yeah, it was just sort of like, all right, I'll just go for it and do this, do this one.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

Yeah, it was great talking to you, man.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

Yeah, it was great talking to you, man.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

Yeah, yeah, right. You do the little follow-up.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

Yeah, yeah, right. You do the little follow-up.

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

Isn't it usually like a phone call or something?

The Daily
'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

Isn't it usually like a phone call or something?