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Why Ben Stiller Returned to Acting for ‘Nutcrackers’: Farm Animals, Untrained Child Actors and David Gordon Green
Ben Stiller returns with his first leading role in seven years in David Gordon Green's heartwarming comedy 'Nutcrackers'
“Nutcrackers,” which premieres at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival where it is looking to land a distribution deal, offered both men a chance to do something looser and liberating. Instead, he’s been focused on directing, making the 2018 prison-break miniseries “Escape at Dannemora” and then “Severance,” a workplace sci-fi thriller that electrified critics and audiences when it debuted in 2022. Stiller plays a narcissist, annoyed to be saddled with a bunch of kids, but he made sure that his character’s attitude didn’t spill over to his off-camera interactions with the brothers.
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