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legs posing has asked his daughter Ella to remove him from her 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty It was his “worst decision” ever.
Zoolander The star, 59, directed and starred in Adaptation of James Thurber’s 1939 short story.
In His new Apple TV documentary, Stiller and Mira: Nothing is LostStiller examines his relationship with his own parents, acclaimed comedy double act Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
He also believes how his experiences growing up with him would later shape him as a father.
In a discussion about his “perfectionism”, which he believes he inherited from his father, Stiller told his 23-year-old daughter Ella that he struggled to make the cut of his first film.
“I cut you off The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. “It’s probably the worst decision I’ve ever made in my life,” Stiller says.
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In response, Ella told her father that she was “really scared” during filming and admitted that the small scene “made no sense in the movie.”
Ella was cast to play a younger version of Odessa Mitty, the sister of Stiller’s lead character Walter Mitty. He has since received film and television credits in numerous projects. And just like that… And Happy Gilmore 2.
Stiller said the decision felt like more than a simple edit, explaining: “For me it goes deeper. It has to do with my own obsession with my work, or my own issues with ‘perfectionism’.”
Stiller’s 20-year-old son Quinn, also featured in the documentary, tells his father that his dedication to his work created distance within the family.
“I think, there are certain things, you know, after a hard day or something goes wrong, you can think about in your mind a lot,” Quinn says. “And I think, once you get to that place… [it’s] It’s hard to get you out of it. So it will, in a way, take away the fun of being on vacation.”
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Quinn adds: “You have all these qualities that you’re trying to balance, you know? Being a director, an actor, you know, a producer, a writer, but also, of course, like a father, right? And sometimes I thought that, you know, it would come after these other things.”
Stiller reflected that he had similar experiences growing up with his comedy-star parents and believed that he did not want to “end up” like them.
Stiller says, “The irony is, I thought I was doing a lot better than my parents. I thought I was getting away with it.” “I would go home on the weekends and have special places for the kids to play when they came to the set, but really, and just hearing them talk about them, it was the same thing I was going through as a kid, and I couldn’t see it at all at the time.”
Elsewhere in the documentary, Stiller also reflected on the ups and downs of his marriage to Christine Taylor.