‘I thought everyone wanted to see this movie’: It’s one of the biggest flops of the 2010s, and its lead actor still doesn’t understand why

Ben Stiller’s career has been successful, starting with My Stepfather and Me Saga, Mary at any Price and Night at the Museum. But there’s also a stark blip in this big-name trip to US laughter: Zoolander 2 .

Guest on Hot Ones, Ben StillerWhen the host asks what movie he thinks it was “Most Misrepresented or Mistreated by Critics”invites without hesitation Zoolander 2. And even today, the actor does not understand this missed meeting…

“It’s very difficult to analyze why critics like something or not”declares Ben Stiller between two peppers. “I’m always surprised when critics love something, and I’m always surprised when they hate something, because it’s so subjective… It’s hard for me to imagine. Zoolander 2 Be so bad that people don’t like it. But I may be wrong.”

at the beginning of the year Guest on the Fail Better podcast David Duchovny’s Ben Stiller (who tried to play Marty McFly in Back to the Future!) already mentioned the flop Zoolander 2. “I thought everyone wanted to see this movie”he said. “And then all of a sudden … I felt like I really screwed up. No one went to see it and then there were these terrible reviews.”

“This failure affected me for a long time”

and Ben Stiller to conclude: “What scared me the most was the feeling that I was no longer funny. I asked myself. Failure Zoolander 2I was really surprised. And it affected me for a long time. “

Comedy Zoolander 2Released in theaters in 2016, fifteen years after the first film, it grossed only $29 million on a $50 million budget. Directing and performing Ben StillerHe sees delusional top model Derek Zoolander gone total. But when a mysterious killer targets famous pop stars, he teams up with his rival/best friend Hansel to save the world.

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