{"id":2230168,"date":"2024-04-25T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-stiller-says-he-was-blindsided-by-zoolander-2-flopping-thought-everybody-wanted-this\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:12:52","slug":"ben-stiller-says-he-was-blindsided-by-zoolander-2-flopping-thought-everybody-wanted-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-stiller-says-he-was-blindsided-by-zoolander-2-flopping-thought-everybody-wanted-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller was surprised by the failure of &#8216;Zoolander 2&#8217;, believing it would be a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-stiller-says-he-was-blindsided-by-zoolander-2-flopping-thought-everybody-wanted-this%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2230168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ben Stiller, at 58, \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-chauvin-verdict-is-mob-rule-trial-polluted-from-start-to-finish\/\" title=\"Candace Owens: Chauvin Verdict Is \u2018Mob Rule,\u2019 Trial \u2018Polluted From Start To Finish\u2019\">expressed surprise<\/a> over the underperformance of &#8220;Zoolander\u2064 2&#8243;\u2064 in 2016, despite\u2062 the success of the original film in 2001.\u2064 During a podcast, \u200cStiller reflected on the\u2064 sequel&#8217;s reception, admitting self-doubt and shock\u200c at the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort-on-little-guy-stock-win-its-about-time\/\" title=\"\u2018Wolf Of Wall Street\u2019 Jordan Belfort On \u2018Little Guy\u2019 Stock Win: \u2018It\u2019s About Time\u2019\">negative reviews<\/a>. Having directed, written, produced, and starred in both films, the sequel&#8217;s outcome profoundly\u2063 impacted\u2063 him.\u200c At \u206258,\u200b Ben Stiller was taken aback by the lackluster performance of \u200d&#8221;Zoolander \u20632&#8243; in\u200d 2016, contrasting the success\u2063 of the 2001 original.\u2063 Reflecting on\u2063 the\u2062 sequel&#8217;s reception in a podcast, Stiller confessed to feeling self-doubt and shock\u2062 due to the negative reviews. As the \u2062director, writer, producer, and \u2063star of both films, \u200cthe sequel&#8217;s outcome had a \u2063profound effect on him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ben-stiller\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ben Stiller<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  expressed his shock at how badly \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoolander 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d performed at the box office following its release in 2016 despite the original film\u2019s success in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 58-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">star<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  discussed his thoughts during a recent episode of David Duchovny\u2019s \u201cFail Better\u201d podcast. \u201cI thought everybody wanted this,\u201d Stiller said of making the sequel. \u201cAnd then it\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, I must have really f***ed this up. Everybody didn\u2019t go to it. And it\u2019s gotten these horrible reviews.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt really freaked me out because I was like, \u2018I didn\u2019t know, was that bad?\u2019 What scared me the most on that one was I\u2019m losing what I think what\u2019s funny, the questioning yourself \u2026 on \u2018Zoolander 2,\u2019 it was definitely blindsiding to me. And it definitely affected me for a long time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stiller directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the sequel, just as he did with the original. The first \u201cZoolander\u201d was a critical and commercial success. The movie satirized the fashion industry as it documented the life of a male model, Derek Zoolander (Stiller), and his rival Hansel (Owen Wilson). It earned $60.8 million against a production budget of $28 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sequel fared much worse. Set ten years after the original, \u201cZoolander 2\u201d included many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brady-bunch-to-recreate-episode-with-rupaul-drag-race-cast-for-pride-month-special\/\" title=\"\u2018Brady Bunch\u2019 To Recreate Episode With RuPaul, \u2018Drag Race\u2019 Cast For Pride Month Special\">original cast members<\/a>, including Stiller and Wilson, while Will Ferrell, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Wiig, Naomi Campbell, and Justin Bieber were also co-stars. Benedict Cumberbatch played a transgender model named AII. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As The Guardian <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/apr\/24\/ben-stiller-i-was-blindsided-by-zoolander-2-flopping\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">noted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cZoolander 2\u201d barely broke even on its $50 million production budget and received terrible reviews. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stiller told Duchovny that the failure became a learning experience for him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714129450076000&#038;usg=AOvVaw11MUL_oXewNl-yGfGqnuu8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe wonderful thing that came out of that for me was just having space where, if that had been a hit, and they said \u2018Make Zoolander 3 right now,\u2019 or offered some other movie, I would have just probably jumped in and done that,\u201d the \u201cMeet the Parents\u201d star said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBut I had this space to kind of sit with myself and have to deal with it and other projects that I had been working on \u2013 not comedies, some of them \u2013 I have the time to actually just work on and develop. Even if somebody said, \u2018Well, why don\u2019t you go do another comedy or do this?\u2019 I probably could have figured out something to do. But I just didn\u2019t want to,\u201d Stiller continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stiller, aged 58, shared his surprise at the disappointing box office performance of &#8220;Zoolander 2&#8221; in 2016, despite the success of the original film in 2001. Speaking on David Duchovny&#8217;s &#8220;Fail Better&#8221; podcast, Stiller expressed, &#8220;I thought everybody wanted this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2230169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Ben-Stiller.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Ben-Stiller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}