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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: Ben Stiller

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Cbs

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this exclusive actor-director Ben Stiller talks with Jim Axelrod about his Apple TV documentary about his parents, "Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost," and about how making the film became a reflection not just on their lives but on his own. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Jane Pauli. He was raised by famous parents, the comedy duo of Jerry Stiller and Anne Mira. Sunday mornings Jim Axelrod sat down with Ben Stiller, who's made a new documentary about his mom and dad.

0:56.0

It feels like a good place to start any discussion about this work is to talk about intention, right?

1:05.0

The mission of what you were trying to accomplish here.

1:10.0

Yeah. What was it?

1:13.4

I think it evolved over the course of making the movie.

1:16.5

I think the first thing was I want to capture, my dad passed away.

1:23.1

It was May of 2020, and that was, of course, course sad and how do you deal with that you know

1:32.8

as losing a parent but it's kind of it happened he had been declining for a while

1:37.9

and I knew after that happened that we were going to sell the apartment because they left it to my sister to sell the apartment.

1:49.0

And I wanted to capture the apartment on film before it was cleaned out or sold or staged or anything.

1:59.0

Just because it was 55 years of memories in that place and it was weird to think about not ever being able to go back there.

2:05.6

And I also knew, this was, you know, height of COVID, that I wanted to do something for my dad, but we couldn't do a memorial service.

2:13.6

And sort of in my head, I thought okay well I'll just you know there

2:19.7

should be a movie about them on some level there should be something about my

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