Ben Stiller's career has shifted dramatically since Meet the Parents. These days, he's working at the back of the digital camera, in the exciting Apple TV thriller, Severance.
However, as soon as upon a time, he was once dominating as an actor in the international of comedy, starring in films like Meet the Parents, alongside Robert De Niro. As we'll reveal in the following, working along De Niro can also be moderately intimidating, that holds true for established actors like Ben Stiller and even Christian Bale following their recent project, Amsterdam.
We'll also take a look at what took place to Jinx the cat after the film and who adopted Jack's cat. To start things off, let's take a better look how De Niro ended up in Meet the Parents and how he made the soar to comedy.
Analyze This Opened A New Door For Robert De Niro In Comedy And Meet The Parents
In 1999, Robert De Niro made a daring change to his career, appearing in the comedy Analyze This, alongside Billy Crystal. The actor took a big risk switching genres, regardless that evidentially, all of it worked out for the easiest.
According to De Niro along Cigar Aficionado, it all started with a simple table read alongside Billy Crystal, thanks to Al Pacino.
"Billy Crystal asked me, with Analyze This, and I just said ‘Let's have a reading of this.' Actually, Pacino got me on that, because he liked to have readings too. He was influential in that. So you have a table reading to just kind of lift it off the page a little bit. And you just read it. Sometimes you see you have to work on it more, or you say let's get it ready and do it."
Due to his luck in the film along Jay Roach, it opened the door for another undertaking, Meet the Parents.
"After Analyze This, Jay Roach asked me if I wanted to do Meet the Parents. I liked Jay a lot, so that's how it started."
Robert De Niro Asked About Jinx The Cat's Future, But Was Adopted By Teri Polo's Mother
Robert De Niro taking up the position of Jack Byrnes in Meet the Parents proved to be an amazing idea. The 2000 film scored huge numbers at the field place of job, producing $330 million. De Niro and the remainder of the cast have been also praised for the movie. De Niro himself is open to filming another film, if ever the alternative arises.
In the film, De Niro's persona Jack and slightly the courting with Jinx, his cat. Turns out, the cat was adoptable and in step with Jay Roach, he concept De Niro would take the cat home with him at the end of the shoot.
"Bob was close to that cat, though," Roach said. "He actually asked about it at the end, what was going to happen to it. I always thought he was going to be the one to adopt it."
Ultimately, it was Teri Polo's mother who followed the cat. "They actually had a couple of different cats that we used, and what was funny is that one of them afterwards was adoptable, and my mother ended up adopting one of the Jinxs," Polo mentioned throughout the reunion.
Ben Stiller Was Nervous About Acting Alongside Robert De Niro In Meet The Parents
Although Ben Stiller was already a longtime actor at the time, that didn't lessen his nervousness of getting to work along Robert De Niro.
Speaking with Today, Stiller recalls the revel in. The actor admits things were given off to a rocky start after he broke all over his first scene alongside De Niro.
"I think it was the scene where we meet for the first time at the doorstep. I said something like, 'Oh, this is a nice house' or something, and I kind of looked up at the house, and Bob saw me look up and he like looked behind him like 'What am I looking at?'
Stiller continues, "And he reacted, and I cracked up in his face. Just began guffawing. And then started sweating because I'm like, 'I will't believe I'm breaking persona on the first scene, the first line. He's going to assume I'm the worst."
Stiller admitted the moment helped to relieve some tension, but he was still on the edge getting to work alongside De Niro for the rest of the film.
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