Ben Stiller says he was blindsided when 'Zoolander 2' flopped: 'It definitely affected me for a long time.'
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— set to explore life's misses and how failure shapes a person — and reveals he was"blindsided" that the film wasn't a success.)."And then it's like, 'Wow, I must have really f---ed this up. Everybody didn't go to it. And it's gotten these horrible reviews.' It really freaked me out because I was like, 'I didn't know was that bad?'" As a result, he went into a spiral of self-doubt. "What scared me the most on that one was l'm losing what I think what's funny, the questioning yourself," he confessed. "It was definitely blindsiding to me. And it definitely affected me for a long time."The introspection that followed allowed Stiller to pursue other creative projects. "The wonderful thing that came out of that for me was just having space where, if that had been a hit, and they said, 'Makeright now,' or offered some other movie, I would have just probably jumped in and done that," he said. "But I had this space to sit with myself and deal with it and other projects that I had been working on — not comedies, some of them — I have the time to actually just work on and develop. Even if somebody said, 'Well, why don't you go do another comedy or do this?' I probably could have figured out something to do. But I just didn't want to.", which he also directed and co-wrote, starred Stiller as Derek Zoolander, a clueless male model who is brainwashed into killing the prime minister of Malaysia. The cast included. The comedy was a box office success, grossing $45.1 million domestically and $60.8 million worldwide against a $28 million budget. Stiller served as star, director, and co-writer of the sequel, which saw the return of original stars Wilson and Ferrell and welcomed. The film — centered on Derek and Hansel's reunion at a fashion event in Rome, where they're thrust into a conspiracy — was largely panned by critics and flopped at the box office, grossing $28.8 million domestically and $56.7 million worldwide against a reported $50 million budget."Why didn't you want to?" Duchovny asked. "Was it anger?" "It was just hurt," noted Stiller. "Finding yourself in terms of what creatively you want to be and do, I always loved directing. I always loved making movies. I always, in my mind, loved the idea of just directing movies since I was a kid, and not necessarily comedies. And so, over the course of like the next like, nine or 10 months, I was able to develop these limited series."role 'to this day'
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