Ben Stiller / Pedro Pascal
Fresh Air
NPR
4.4 • 34.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ben Stiller talks about his new Apple TV+ documentary about his actor/comedian parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, they were famous as the comedy duo, Stiller and Meara. Ben talks about growing up in a showbiz family, where there was no separation between work and personal lives.
Chilean-born actor Pedro Pascal has faced countless on-screen challenges, including cosmic battles and cartel kingpins. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about getting fired from restaurant jobs, his dance training, and his parents' exile from Chile.
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| 0:15.5 | From W.HYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today we continue our series |
| 0:22.8 | highlighting some of our favorite interviews of the year. Ben Stiller discusses his documentary |
| 0:28.3 | about his parents, the comedy duo Stiller and Mira. When they'd leave town for work, Ben |
| 0:34.2 | sometimes went rogue, going to places like Studio 54 with his older sister when he was just 13. |
| 0:41.7 | They put me in a yellow and green polka-dotted Fiorucci shirt. |
| 0:44.9 | Fiorucci was the store at the time that was like the cool fashion store and an army jacket and these Mickey Mouse sunglasses. |
| 0:52.9 | Also, we hear from Pedro Pascal. |
| 0:55.7 | He's been a Marvel superhero, a grieving smuggler in The Last of Us, |
| 0:59.6 | and a bounty hunter in the Mandalorian. |
| 1:02.1 | Last summer, he starred in both the Fantastic Four First Steps and Materialists. |
| 1:07.8 | That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. |
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