The actor-director discusses the long-awaited return of the hit series, the comedies that made him a star and growing up with his famous parents.
Tennis teaches you not to be distracted from being in the very present at every moment that you're out there competing.
It's more important to be present in life than even on a tennis court.
That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on everything and nothing to do with tennis.
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From the New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm David Marchese.
The long awaited Emmy Award winning series Severance returns for its second season next week.
I've seen a bunch of the new episodes which have some real surprises in them and I can say that I'm very eager to see other fans reaction to how the show has moved forward with its story.
By way of a reminder, that story is about a rebellious of employees at the mysterious and probably malevolent Lumen Industries.
Those employees are office drones whose consciousness has been artificially separated between their work selves, also known as their innies, and their outies, their selves away from the office.
That sense of a divided self is one to which Ben Stiller, who co directed and co executive produces the series, can probably relate.
It's actually one of the things that's most intriguing to me about him.
He's a hugely successful comedic actor from mainstream hits like Meet the Parents and Night at the Museum Museum who has gradually stepped away from acting in favor of his first love, directing as a director.
He's a much more subversive and distinctive stylist than his biggest acting roles might suggest.
Take, for example, more serious projects like his crime drama series Escape of Dannemora, as well as Severance, of course, and also his off the wall comedy satires like Cable Guy and Zoolander, the latter of which he also starred in.
So I don't think I'm overreaching in suggesting that there is some innie outie severance style tension.
If you will run through Stiller's own story.
As I found out while speaking with him at his Manhattan office, that's something he was trying to make sense of too.
Here's my conversation with Ben Stiller.
You know, I was thinking about Severance and sort of where it fits in the arc of your career.