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
00:21well when he forgot a line during filming. During a scene where David Duchovny's character
00:25reveals that 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 just a few
00:35moments earlier. Stiller went totally blank and so said the only line of dialogue that he could
00:39remember. Luckily, it fit the character's dumb-dumb persona to a T, and everybody on set just went
00:44with it. We're not sure what the original follow-up line was meant to be, but we're doubtful that it
00:47would have been any better than what we got. Stiller's comic timing is perfect here, which
00:52is even more impressive when you consider that his brain was in panic mode whilst he was filming it.
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