On January 30, 2023, Ben Stiller joined Christine Taylor and David Lascher in the iHeart Radio's podcast "Hey Dude... The 90s Called!" for a candid conversation about the trials and tribulations of working in Hollywood.
Ben shares insider stories from his work on Reality Bites, Something About Mary, The Cable Guy, Zero Effect, Meet the Parents and more.
Find out what films Ben got rejected from, the big ones he let get away, and how he found success at an early age in the 90’s.
Listen to the podcast:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-hey-dude-the-90s-called-105643301/episode/ben-stiller-thats-it-thats-the-108023100/
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It's been more than 30 years in the making, but the truth has finally come out: Hey Dude costars Christine Taylor and David Lascher were an item when they filmed the '90s sitcom.
The duo talked about their former relationship on Monday's mini-episode of the Hey Dude... The 90's Called! podcast, finally coming clean after years of denial.
"You were my first real love and it was full of teen angst and all you can imagine," Lascher, 50, said. "We get asked this all the time, and we're like, 'No, nobody dated.'"
Taylor, 51, added: "You were my second boyfriend. I had my high school sweetheart and you were my second boyfriend... We didn't own it at that point. Now I think we just have to own it."
Prior to recording the podcast episode, Taylor said Lascher's wife, Jill London, was the one who encouraged them to talk about their teenage romance.
"We talked about this last night. Jill was like, 'You should talk about this, you should talk about the fact that you dated while you were shooting the show,' which we've never talked about before," Taylor explained.
Lascher then admitted, "I was nervous to even ask you if you wanted to talk about it, but we are both happily married and we are adults." (Lascher has been married to London since 1999, while Taylor married actor Ben Stiller in 2000.)
Looking back on their relationship, Lascher said the two initially bonded over "humor and laughter" while they starred on the Nickelodeon show together.
"We would just make fun of everything and everyone in a lighthearted way. We just laughed for two years straight," he recalled.
Lascher also remembered how the actors were given a per diem and he saved up his money to buy Taylor ruby necklaces in honor of her birthstone. "I was head over heels for you!" he said.
"We were head over heels for each other," Taylor added. "It was total infatuation for sure... he was my first love and I was so infatuated with you, and loved you so much."
Though they had a "great" time together and got "really close," Taylor said they ultimately broke up.
"I think it was the fact that we were working together and living together in this hotel, we were with each other 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that's not how young love thrives," she said. "You need space to be your own person."
They did, however, attempt to make it work several times. "I remember we kept trying to find our way back to each other," Taylor recalled.
Though a rekindling never happened, the two had to continue working together after the breakup, which Taylor admitted "was not fun." She also said she took full responsibility for the split.
"I was terrible," Taylor recalled. "I was so non-confrontational. I probably had no idea how to talk or deal with it. How great is it we can unpack it now?"
Lascher confirmed there were never any hard feelings, telling his former costar, "Everyone has that first love that crushes them, at some point, even though it wasn't intentional."
While their romantic relationship might have fizzled, Lascher and Taylor agreed that their friendship has since prevailed.
"You and I had a friendship that was above and beyond anything else," he said. "I think the friendship was more important, looking back on it, right? We had such great times together that whatever went on outside of that was less important."
Hey Dude premiered on Nickelodeon in July 1989 and ran until August 1991. The series followed a group of teen workers on a ranch in Tucson, Arizona.
Hey Dude... The 90's Called! premiered its first full episode on iHeartRadio Jan. 9.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hey-dude-costars-christine-taylor-025449170.html
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Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor first met while filming a TV pilot called Heat Vision and Jack, which ultimately never made it to air.
In 2016, Stiller opened up about how their first meeting quickly turned into a first date, telling Parade, "I was directing a pilot for Fox, starring Jack Black, called Heat Vision and Jack [1999]. My wife came in to audition for the role of the sexy sheriff. She had been in the Brady Bunch movies and they were pushing her on me. She came in and she was great … I was single. I'd come out of a long relationship with [actress] Jeanne Tripplehorn. Christine was coming out of a relationship too. We went on a date and it clicked. We were both on the rebound. And we just jumped."
On June 5, 1999 Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller make their first public appearance at the MTV Movie Awards.
Taylor accompanied Stiller to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards, where he was up for four awards for his role in There's Something About Mary. Of their budding romance, Stiller told Parade in 2013 that their relationship "was a gradual thing that happened over a quick period of time, maybe seven or eight months."
"We just started hanging out with each other and it developed into, 'Wow, this feels great. I really like this person. I think I love this person. I really do — I love this person,' " Stiller continued. "It hit me out of the blue."
On May 13, 2000 Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor get married in Kauai, Hawaii.
PEOPLE reported that the couple tied the knot at an oceanfront residence in Hawaii after a six-month engagement. Of their romance, Stiller told Parade in 2016, "We got married pretty quickly. I turned around one day and said, 'Wow, I'm happy with her. We connect. I'm enjoying being with her all the time!' It just felt right."
Of their engagement, the Severance director told Parade in 2013 that it mirrored his on-screen proposal in Meet the Parents. "I proposed to Christine when I was rehearsing Meet the Parents ... I asked her father for permission before I did it ... It was like Meet the Parents in real life, because Christine's father is an intimidating guy who owns a security company; we're good friends now, but at the time I was in the basement rec room saying, 'I really would like to marry your daughter …' He's a man of few words but he was very welcoming. I was more nervous asking him than asking her."
On January 30, 2023, Ben Stiller made an appearance on Christine Taylor and David Lascher's podcast Hey Dude... The 90s Called! The series, which premiered in December 2022, features Taylor and her co-host, David Lascher.
"So, it's been really fun," Stiller told PEOPLE. "I had a great time doing the episode, and it's fun to be a part of something new that they're just getting off the ground, and it seems to be off to a really great start."
Source: https://people.com/movies/ben-stiller-christine-taylor-relationship-timeline/
