"I Must Have Really F---ed This Up": Ben Stiller Reflects On $56.7M Comedy Flop 8 Years Later

Ben Stiller looking surprised as Derek Zoolander in Zoolander 2

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Zoolander 2 director and star Ben Stiller candidly reflects on the negative reception to his 2016 sequel. After the success of the first film in 2001, which he also directed, Stiller returned as fashion model Derek Zoolander for an Italy-set follow-up. The movie was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews and was a box office flop, earning only $56.7 million on an estimated production budget of $50 million.

"What scared me the most on that one was l'm losing what I think what's funny, the questioning yourself ... on Zoolander 2, it was definitely blindsiding to me. And it definitely affected me for a long time. In addition to being an actor, Stiller is also a director and producer. His next project as director and executive producer is Severance season 2 .

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