00:00This mistake was so good that the director left it in.
00:03Now, Derek Zoolander, the...
00:05character played by Ben Stiller in the 2001 comedy is an idiot.
00:09That is his...
00:10whole deal.
00:10He's a male model with, according to the movie's poster, 3% body fat and...
00:151% brain activity, and the numbers, they don't lie.
00:18Stiller managed to incorporate a moment of...
00:20real-life ditziness into his performance as well when he forgot a line during filming.
00:24During a scene where Dave...
00:25David Duchovny's character reveals that all male models are actually trained assassins,
00:28Zoolander asks...
00:30This, regardless of the fact that he just asked the same question just a few...
00:35moments earlier.
00:36Stiller went totally blank and so said the only line of dialogue that he could remember.
00:39Luckily...
00:40it fit the character's dumb-dumb persona to a T and everybody on set just went with it.
00:44We're not sure...
00:45what the original follow-up line was meant to be, but we're doubtful that it would have
00:48been any better than what we got.
00:49Still...
00:50Zoolander's comic timing is perfect here, which is even more impressive when you consider
00:53that his brain was in panic.
00:55Zoolander's comic mode whilst he was filming it.
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