US EditionBen Stiller Compares ‘Nepo Baby’ Criticism To ‘Brat Pack’, Considers It “A Selling Point”
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Ben Stiller Compares ‘Nepo Baby’ Criticism To ‘Brat Pack’, Considers It “A Selling Point”
Although New York Magazine popularized the term ‘nepo baby’ in 2022, Ben Stiller has long been familiar with criticism over having famous parents. The Emmy winner, who pays tribute to his parents in the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, explained that he understands arguments “about access,” but considers it “a selling point” to have grown up around the industry. “I think it’s kinda like that Brat Pack thing, right? New York Maga…
Ben Stiller reflects on the ‘dark underside’ of Hollywood fame
Ben Stiller is opening up about the price of fame — revealing that growing up in a family of Hollywood stars gave him a front-row seat to the "dark underside" of the industry.In a candid conversation with Howard Stern, the "Zoolander" star reflected on his complex childhood as the son of beloved comedy legends Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.While his upbringing gave him an inside view of show business, it also offered a glimpse at the toll fame ca…
For most of his nearly four decades of career as an actor and filmmaker, he has led the box office or cleverly grasped the spirit of the era, and has devised—with a stuck closure, a mohin, or Robert De Niro as his father-in-law—some of the most sticky film moments in pop culture. That’s why, when he started filming in his parents’ department, a few weeks after his father’s death, Jerry Stiller, in 2020, he didn’t know exactly why. “It was just a…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ben Stiller is opening up about the price of fame — revealing that growing up in a family of Hollywood stars gave him a front-row seat to the “dark underside” of the industry. In a candid conversation with Howard Stern, the “Zoolander” star reflected on his complex childhood as the son of beloved comedy legends Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. While his upbringing gave him an inside view of show business,…
Anne Meara died in 2015. Jerry Stiller, in 2020. These comedians are the genitors of actor Ben Stiller, who devotes them an intimate documentary, archive in support. Touching.
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