Hackman took a moment and then looked at Stiller. “Oh yes. Money work,” he said to the superfan.
“Then he got up and walked away. My world was shattered, ”said Stiller. “Even if it was a cash job for Hackman, it was the most incredible cash job performance I’ve ever seen.”
‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ (Touchstone Images)
Little Ben was barely alone in contributing to the movie’s ticket sales – it was also the highest grossing movie of 1972.
“For some reason, it was never done … It was probably too crazy,” Stiller said of the project, in which he was to play a radical preacher, natch, aboard a high-rise hotel built in the middle of the Ocean. Pacific, on top of an active underwater volcano, on a New Year’s Eve, Christmas Eve and Hanukkah night, all at once.
The great disaster
Stiller and Cross will join a supporting cast that will include Michael Cera, Don Cheadle, Will Forte, Regina Hall, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Kristen Wiig and Henry Winkler (in addition to a surprise guest, Stiller teases, who we pray is Hackman) for live reading, a pay-per-view issue that will benefit the Equal Justice Initiative and Direct Relief.
“This is my chance, somehow … I don’t know, I have to live it somehow. I have to do it right, “says Stiller. “It is not a money job for me.”
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