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The project is almost painfully personal – “territory that I haven’t really travelled in before”, Ben Stiller said in a recent interview in Manhattan.
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Melena Ryzik
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NEW YORK – Ben Stiller has long since stopped analysing what draws him to projects.
So, when the American actor and film-maker started filming in his parents’ apartment a few weeks after the death of his father, Jerry Stiller, in 2020 at the age of 92, he was not sure why, exactly.
