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.
00:10He's a male model with, according to the movie's poster, 3% body fat and 1% brain activity.
00:16And the numbers, they don't lie.
00:18Stiller managed to incorporate a moment of real-life ditziness into his performance as
00:21well when he forgot a line during filming.
00:24During a scene where David Duchovny's character reveals that all male models are actually
00:27trained assassins, Zoolander asks,
00:29But why male models?
00:31This, regardless of the fact that he just asked the same question just a few moments earlier.
00:36Stiller went totally blank and so said the only line of dialogue that he could remember.
00:39Luckily, it fit the character's dumb-dumb persona to a T and everybody on set just went with it.
00:44We'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.
00:49Stiller's comic timing is perfect here,
00:52which is even more impressive when you consider that his brain was in panic mode whilst he was filming it.
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