Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor are back together!

 

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor are back together! 

We are glad that the family is whole and we wish you all The Best! 

Sending a lot of Love to Ben, Christine, Ella and Quinlin! 

 

 

 

Esquire: Ben Stiller talks about his life

An extremely inspiring article in Esquire Magazine about Ben Stiller by Ryan D'Agostino and beautiful fashion photos of Ben by Mark Seliger: www.esquire.com/ben-stiller-severance 

In this article, Ben shares his memories, thoughts, feelings and his life wisdom. 

 

Thanks @rhdagostino⁩ for writing this & being so easy to talk to (& making me sound more coherent than transcribed I’m sure), Mark Seliger for being such a great photographer & making this fun & ⁦@esquire⁩ for having me in your mag! #Severance https://t.co/MOZathmUk8

— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) February 23, 2022

 

 

Ben Stiller. Photos by Mark Seliger / Esquire

Ben Stiller, Laverne Cox and Jimmy Fallon play a game

Ben Stiller, Laverne Cox and Jimmy Fallon play a game where they take turns confessing a random fact before interrogating each other to determine who was telling the truth.

Ben Stiller, Laverne Cox and Jimmy Fallon play a game. Photo: GettyImages.

What it was like to work on the series Severance during a pandemic

On February 21, 2022, during the program "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," Ben Stiller talked about what it was like to work on the series Severance during a pandemic. 

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon | Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller: Boom Boom Mancini, Rafael Nadal and a little girl

Ben Stiller during "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" talks about the time he fought Boom Boom Mancini and shares what it was like to play doubles with Rafael Nadal, Juan Martin del Potro and little girl.

On February 21, 2022, during the program "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon", Ben Stiller told how at BNP Paribas Showdown tennis match at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2013, March 4, tennis player Rafael Nadal pulled him from the stands to the tennis court to play with him doubles. In turn, Nadal's rival, Juan Martin del Potro, invited a girl, maybe 8 years old, to play.

Ben was very nervous about this game because he played tennis poorly, was not properly dressed and did not have good shoes on his feet.

Since then, Ben has learned to play better and is always prepared to play, but no one invites him;) 

Ben Stiller on February 21, 2022, during the program "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". Photo: GettyImages.

Ben Stiller at BNP Paribas Showdown tennis match at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2013, March 4.

Mini interview: Severance

Mini interview with Ben Stiller, Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette about serie Severance.

Ben Stiller signed autographs for fans and answered paparazzi questions

 

On February 20, 2022, Ben Stiller signed autographs for fans and answered questions from paparazzi on 44th St. after leaving Times Square Studios Ltd. in Manhattan, New York. 

 

 

Times Square Studios (TSS) is an American television studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, located on the southeastern corner of West 44th Street and Broadway in the Times Square area of the borough of Manhattan. The studio is best known as the production home of ABC News' Good Morning America (GMA), a morning news and talk program, segments for other ABC News programs, and various programs on ESPN. 

44th St, Manhattan, New York City. Fot. Wikimedia Map.

 

Background

Times Square Studios is on the site of the former Hotel Claridge, built in 1911. In 1972, the hotel was demolished and the current structure, which housed the National Theater,[1] and a Beefsteak Charlie's restaurant, was built. The theater closed in 1998.

The New York Times felt that Times Square Studios was meant to be a response to the "Window on the World" Studio 1A NBC had launched at Rockefeller Center for its morning show Today in 1994—which marked an era of dominance for the program over ABC's competing Good Morning America. It was argued that Disney needed its own on-air showpiece in a prominent location, and that "a dynamic Manhattan street scene is now considered an essential production element for a morning show".

The facility was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, Disney's design and development arm, and its senior vice president of concept design Eddie Sotto. The team also worked with Roger Goodman, ABC's vice president for special projects, on its facilities for Good Morning America. Sotto stated that the design of the building was meant to symbolize a "looking glass" and the idea of "media as architecture". The facade of the building also features a video screen and a pair of news tickers, both of which are upgraded with state-of-the-art display technology every few years.

Alongside ABC News productions such as Good Morning America, Disney also intended to lease space at the studio for other productions.[2] Under the direction of Tim Hayes, notable early productions originating from Times Square Studios included 20/20, Primetime, ABC College Football, NBA Shootaround, The Insider, Entertainment Tonight, and many others between the years 1999 and 2007. The studio began to serve primarily as the home to Good Morning America in 2007 and ended their work with most other programs in the facility.

 

Times Square Studios Ltd. on the Wikimedia Map, 44th St, Manhattan, New York City.

 

Productions at Times Square Studios

• Good Morning America and Good Afternoon America — ABC News morning breakfast television news and talk program and its temporary summer 2012 afternoon counterpart
• GMA3 — The permanent Good Morning America afternoon counterpart, premiered September 2018
• Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (Times Square Countdown New Year Celebrations) — ABC's New Year's Eve telecast
• ABC News Election Night coverage, biennially every first November Tuesday since 2000
• ABC 2000 Today — ABC News coverage of the turn of the millennium celebrations from December 31, 1999, into January 1, 2000
• ABC and ESPN — National Basketball Association (NBA) pre-game and half-time updates
• Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief, 2017 (New York City portions)
• ESPN College Football — some weekly and Scoreboard coverage, an episode of College GameDay in 2017
• Good Morning America Weekend — The weekend version of Good Morning America; outside of special events, the program is recorded at ABC News' main studio at the ABC Television Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan; a Times Square backdrop is projected onto the set's rear-projection screen for continuity purposes
• Nightline — ABC News late-night news program
• Olbermann — ESPN2
• 20/20 — ABC News television-newsmagazine program
• Primetime — ABC News television-newsmagazine program

Times Square Studios in Wikipedia

 

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott in an interview for Good Morning America talk about their new series Severance

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott in an interview for Good Morning America talk about their new series Severance. 

 

 

 

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott in an interview with Collider talk about their series Severance

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott in an interview with Collider talk about their series Severance.

The Apple TV+ series Severance, which premiered on February 18, tackles a whole new kind of work-life balance. The show created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife Mcardle follows the character of Mark, played by Adam Scott, who recently underwent the controversial procedure known as "severance" in order to take a job at the mysterious Lumon Industries. 

Clocking in for the day effectively activates the implant in his brain that flips the switch to his work memories, meaning he forgets everything that happens to him outside the walls of the company (which is referred to as his "outie" side). When he's not working and living his life, he doesn't remember anything about Lumon either — or any of his quirky coworkers, like the goals-driven Dylan (Zach Cherry) or the by-the-company-handbook Irving (John Turturro). 

The arrival of a disruptive new employee in Helly (Britt Lower), however, could do more than just threaten the status quo; it could upend the authority inside Lumon as it exists, led by company devotee Ms. Cobel (Patricia Arquette) and her loyal right hand Milchick (Tramell Tillman). 

Ahead of the series premiere, Collider had the opportunity to speak with Severance star Adam Scott as well as Ben Stiller about how they first came to the project and what drew them to the material. Over the course of the interview, which you can watch above and read below, they also reflected on the moment when Stiller first called up Scott to tell him about the show, and Scott discussed his approach to playing a "severed" character like Mark. 

COLLIDER: Ben, you helm a lot of the show's pivotal episodes, I would argue, from behind the camera. What was it about the project that drew you to it specifically? 

BEN STILLER: Dan Erickson came up with this script, and he had not been produced as a writer and came through our doors, and I was immediately taken by the tone and sort of the influences in it that felt very original, but also familiar and something I hadn't seen before in terms of just the world of this show and the concept, the very simple concept that he came up with. So I was immediately in. And it's taken a number of years to get it to this point. Really, it's been like, I think maybe five years since, or more. I forget when I first called you, Adam. Because I read it, and I called Adam up immediately too. Because he was the first person I thought of to be Mark. 

COLLIDER: Adam, is it fair to say that you were involved with this project before you even knew about it? I saw that Dan had envisioned you for the character of Mark before you were even aware of it. 

ADAM SCOTT: I mean, that's so flattering and nice to hear. I mean, from the moment Ben kind of gave me the big idea of the show, while I was standing in the snow in 2017, I just couldn't stop thinking about it because it's just such a great idea. It's one of those ideas you can't believe no one's explored before. And then a couple years later, I actually got to read a script. And it's just exactly the kind of thing that I like to watch as an audience member. And it had everything in it. It had this fun workplace comedy, just with this weird sinister vibe underneath it. It has satire and kind of thriller elements and suspense and science fiction. It had all this terrific stuff yet. It's completely character-driven. So as an actor, it was just a dream role and truly felt like something I'd been waiting my whole career to be able to do. 

COLLIDER: In terms of your approach to the character, you're playing somebody who, in the world of the show, has been severed. So your work-life and your life-life, the memories are completely separate. Do you look at it as playing two separate people or is it more [that] you're playing two halves of the same person? 

ADAM SCOTT: Definitely the latter. It had to be the same guy and just have it be a matter of addition or subtraction from one to the other. What does the one on the inside not have that the one on the outside does? It's a whole life of experience, but what does the one on the inside have that the outside does not? There are different things, and they manifest themselves in different ways, some physical, and some emotional. So it was a constant sort of dance, figuring that out as we went along. And luckily, I had Ben there to sort of augment and keep track of, because we were shooting the whole show at once. So keeping everything straight, which "innie" or "outie" we were doing and where we were in the story was always a really fun puzzle to work at.

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott talk about their series Severance in an interview with Joe Deckelmeier of Screen Rant

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott talk about their series Severance in an interview with Joe Deckelmeier of Screen Rant.

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott about his new Series SEVERANCE

The Interview for ScreenWeek TV with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott about his new Series SEVERANCE. 

 

 

 

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott talk about the new series SEVERANCE

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott in an interview with Cydney Contreras talk about the new Apple TV+ SEVERANCE series.

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott talk to ET Canada about series Severance

Director and executive producer Ben Stiller talks to ET Canada about his Apple TV+ show SEVERANCE, starring Adam Scott as a man who tries to establish a work-life balance by severing his memories. 

Ben Stiller about his cameo role in the movie STELLA (1990)

 

32 years ago (February 2, 1990), the movie "Stella" had its premiere, in which Ben Stiller played a cameo (Jim Uptegrove) with stars such as Bette Midler, John Goodman and Trini Alvarado. 

Ben wrote on Twitter: “Cameo” also known as “Oh my god I got a job !! in a Bette Midler movie !! " 

 

 

Severance Billboard Los Angeles

 

Ben Stiller's Severance Billboard, Sunset Blvd Los Angeles California USA on February 1, 2022.