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- Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor are reflecting on their 2017 separation in Stiller’s new documentary about his well-known mother and father
- Within the documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Misplaced, the Severance director displays on how observing his mother and father’ relationship influenced how he felt about his personal
- The documentary premiered on Oct. 5, 2025 on the New York Movie Competition
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor are opening up about their 2017 separation.
In his new documentary, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Misplaced, Stiller, 59, appears again at his mother and father Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara’s relationship — each on and off the stage. In doing so, he attracts comparisons between their six a long time of marriage and his relationship with Taylor, 54, whom he married in 2000.
Similar to his personal mother and father, Ben and Taylor labored collectively early of their relationship, assembly for the primary time whereas filming a TV pilot referred to as Warmth Imaginative and prescient and Jack. After tying the knot in 2000, the 2 starred as love pursuits in 2001’s Zoolander and appeared collectively once more in 2004’s Dodgeball.
Jerry and Meara additionally labored intently along with their comedy act Stiller & Meara taking them to levels across the nation, together with 36 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Present. Wanting again on his mother and father’ careers — which for a few years had been intertwined — Ben wonders, “what sort of toll that took on their precise relationship?”
When Ben and Taylor’s relationship first started, he remembers pondering “I do not need to turn into my mother and father.”
“I do really feel like there was historical past and I feel a whole lot of it was your expertise of what that finally meant for a relationship that it might put further pressure if you’re consuming, sleeping, respiration one another in that manner,” Taylor says to her husband within the documentary. “I additionally felt like there was a worry from you for me of what that may seem like to the surface world. I imply it was very loaded.”
In Could 2017, after almost 20 years of marriage, Ben and Taylor introduced their separation, telling ipromiseyoumedia in a joint assertion: “With great love and respect for one another, and the 18 years we spent collectively as a pair, we’ve got made the choice to separate. Our precedence will proceed to be elevating our youngsters as devoted mother and father and the closest of mates. We kindly ask that the media respect our privateness presently.”
Wanting again on that point, Ben says the entire ordeal made him really feel like a failure.
“After we separated my feeling was like ‘Oh, I’m failing at this’ and have a look at my mother and father they’ve this unimaginable 50 plus yr marriage and I can’t stay as much as that,” Ben tells Taylor within the documentary.
Following their break up, the mother and father of two had been seen collectively on quite a few events, together with the 2019 Emmys the place Taylor was on deck to assist Ben, who was nominated for excellent directing for a restricted sequence, film or dramatic particular for Escape At Dannemora.
In 2022, Ben revealed in an interview with Esquire that the couple had rekindled their romantic relationship in the course of the pandemic whereas their household of 4 had been all in the identical home collectively once more.
He displays on the choice within the documentary explaining, “swiftly we had been collectively in the home and through that point I began to make the film too. So there type of this coming collectively. Us speaking about what we had been going by means of, our points, and taking a look at what my mother and father had been by means of too in a manner I hadn’t checked out it earlier than.”
After its Oct. 5, 2025 premiere on the New York Movie Competition, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Misplaced will display screen in choose theaters starting on Oct. 17 and can be out there to stream Apple TV+ on Oct. 24.
