Ben Stiller has just come forward with his personal take on what it’s like to have famous parents, as well as the term ‘nepo baby’, which follows many star children around throughout their lives.
The conversation itself took place on The Howard Stern Show and showed that the star was honest.
What’s also relevant to mention is that Stiller just released a documentary about his famous parents recently, its titled Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.
In that chat, he started by praising the term rather than dismissing it, because for Stiller, the term is more of a “selling point” than anything else.
“I think it’s kind of like that Brat Pack thing, right?” he also noted. “New York Magazine, they coined a phrase and then it just became a thing.”
“But it’s always been what it is, in humanity and life. It’s like you buy a violin, a Stradivarius or whatever, it’s been in the family for hundreds of years. That’s a selling point.”
However, he made sure to point out that there are “other arguments about access and all that stuff,” though he also saw the less glamorous, sometimes bad sides of that limelight growing up.
“For me, I think growing up around it, we talk about all the things that I saw with my parents, you actually, as a kid, you see the dark side of it. The stress, the effects it has on relationships. You see it up close as a kid, and then you still want to go into it,” he also admitted during that chat.
During that chat, he also recalled how his mother’s influence also influenced his very first acting job, which was an off-Broadway production called House of Blue Leaves.
He explained that he couldn’t make it alone and “couldn’t get in because the casting director didn’t want to see me,” but the final call came as “a favor” from is mom.
But regardless, before concluding, he made it a point to add, “if you have the passion, you do it. You go for it.”
