Ben Stiller revealed that he and his sister were able to be with their father, the late Jerry Stiller, when he passed away. 💕
"My sister and I were able to be with him," Ben says of him and his sister, Amy Stiller."And, just due to the fact that he didn’t have a coronavirus-related illness, and he had been ailing for a while, we were able to be with him, which I’m very, very grateful for.""The last week or two were tougher for him. But he went peacefully, and he had a sense of humor, for sure, until the end," Ben says."I hesitate to call it a sense of humor.
Jerry's beloved wife and longtime collaborator, Anne Meara, died in early 2019, and Ben reflected on growing up in a family of performers. "We hardly ever sat down to have dinner together as a family. But, by the same token, I think we were a pretty close family," he says."And it was just not your typical, traditional setup.""My first instinct, when I was eight, nine, ten years old, was that I knew I loved movies and I wanted to be a director.
Jerry is probably best remembered for playing the hot-headed Frank Costanza, the father of George Costanza on. Ben said that the origins of the character came from Jerry"not trying to be funny," but rather"putting everything into it." "And yet, of course, it came out so funny because he was just putting everything into it. And it was just like the amalgam of who he was, as a person," he says.
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