00:00This mistake was so good that the director left it in.
00:03Now, Derek Zoolander, the character played by Ben Stiller in the 2001 comedy, is an idiot.
00:09That is his whole deal. He's a male model with, according to the movie's poster,
00:133% body fat and 1% brain activity. And the numbers, they don't lie.
00:18Stiller managed to incorporate a moment of real-life ditsiness into his performance as well
00:22when he forgot a line during filming. During a scene where David Duchovny's character reveals
00:26that all male models are actually trained assassins, Zoolander asks,
00:29But why male models? This, regardless of the fact that he just asked the same question
00:34just a few moments earlier. Stiller went totally blank and so said the only line of dialogue that
00:39he could remember. Luckily, it fit the character's dumb-dumb persona to a T, and everybody on set
00:43just went with it. We're not sure what the original follow-up line was meant to be,
00:46but we're doubtful that it would have been any better than what we got. Stiller's comic timing
00:50is perfect here, which is even more impressive when you consider that his brain was in panic
00:55mode whilst he was filming it.
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