00:00I was thinking of what the opening of the movie could be.
00:03I see us, brother and sister together.
00:06Maybe the idea of this question of why are you even making the movie?
00:09Me asking you?
00:09Yeah.
00:10Okay.
00:10Over on camera, so should I do it now?
00:13Sure.
00:14So, Ben.
00:16We come from a showbiz family.
00:18Now the comedy of Stiller and Mira.
00:21Jerry Stiller and Anne Mira.
00:22Anne Mira and Jerry Stiller.
00:26We grew up around them, working together and improvising.
00:29And that's what we did.
00:30Because they did it.
00:30They're looking at not only my partner in comedy, this is the mother of my two kids.
00:34This is the father of one.
00:36When they were working, I remember sometimes hearing laughter, sometimes hearing raised voices,
00:41never knowing if that was real or them rehearsing something.
00:45We don't know, Ben.
00:46That's why we're so messed up.
00:50Your dad documented everything.
00:53Letters.
00:54Movies.
00:54Tapes.
00:55They're not superstars.
00:57They're just performers who are married with kids and trying to do their best with both worlds.
01:03Your father was a kind of a saint.
01:08Your mom kind of scared me a little bit.
01:10She looked at me and I could tell, she knows you're up to no good.
01:13I see dad working so hard and mom just letting it flow.
01:18When you tell it, it's not funny.
01:20And if I tell it, it becomes funny.
01:22Ouch.
01:23When I read this, my desperate need to tie what we do on stage with when we're together
01:29has created the gap between us.
01:31I cannot be under that pressure.
01:34I don't know where the act ends and the marriage begins.
01:38My mom wanted to be happy, independent of performing.
01:42This was harder for my dad because he had such a need for approval.
01:46I see that parallel with your dad.
01:48You're trying to balance being a director, an actor, but also just a father.
01:52Success can get in the way of marriage.
01:55We had to stop doing this act.
01:57They have this incredible marriage and I wanted to understand how they did it.
02:02This is all of the truth of our lives.
02:06Whatever you say, they'll near you forever.
02:09You'll never be lost.
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