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Why Ben Stiller Is Now Thankful ‘Zoolander 2’ Tanked at the Box Office · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Ben Stiller's twenty sixteen sequels.
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Speaker 1: Zoolander two didn't live up to expectations at the box office,
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Speaker 1: which Ben just admitted on the Failed Better podcast was
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Speaker 1: a really tough pill to swallow at the time. He
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Speaker 1: went on to explain how the silver lining of the
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Speaker 1: experience was far more meaningful in the end, He says,
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Speaker 1: the wonderful thing that came out of the box office
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Speaker 1: bomb for me was that if it had been a hit,
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Speaker 1: I would have probably just jumped in and made Zoolander three. Instead.
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Speaker 1: I had this space to sit with myself and deal
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Speaker 1: with and consider other projects I'd be working on, not
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Speaker 1: all comedies. I had the time to just work and develop.
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Speaker 1: I always loved the idea of just directing since I
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Speaker 1: was a kid, not necessarily comedies, so I was able
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Speaker 1: to develop these limited series instead, Ben Stiller there One
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Speaker 1: of those series ended up being Severance, which Ben developed,
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Speaker 1: the executive produced, and largely directed, and which ended up
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Speaker 1: being one of the most critically acclaimed projects of his career.
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Speaker 1: Season one is streaming on Apple TV plus That's Direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood