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Chris Rock praises his friend Ben Stiller’s marriage reconciliation with wife Christine Taylor following their 2017 separation
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In a new interview with The New York Times, Rock calls Stiller “one of the greatest comic actors to ever live”
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The interview was pegged to Stiller’s upcoming documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, which hits select theaters on Oct. 17 and will be available to stream on Apple TV on Oct. 24
Chris Rock is giving credit where it’s due.
While speaking with The New York Times for the outlet’s Oct. 16 profile on Ben Stiller, Rock, 60, gushed about his longtime friend calling him “one of the greatest comic actors to ever live.”
“I’m trying to get wherever he’s at. It’s so far ahead, I can’t even see it,” he said of Stiller, 59, who, per the outlet, has been in his orbit since the 1990s.
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Chris Rock and Ben Stiller at the 2005 premiere of ‘Madagascar’ in Madrid.
Elsewhere in the interview, which was timed to the Oct. 17 release of Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost — Stiller’s new documentary about his famous parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara — Rock commended Stiller and Christine Taylor for managing to successfully reconcile after their 2017 separation.
“A marriage getting back together is harder to do than a $600 million movie,” he quipped.
After the couple appeared to remain in each other’s lives after the split, with Taylor supporting Stiller at the 2019 Emmys, the Night at the Museum actor revealed in 2022 that they had reconciled during the pandemic while living together with their two children, Ella, 23, and Quin, 20.
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Quin Stiller, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and Ella Stiller in 2016.
Stiller reflects on the decision in the documentary, explaining, “All of a sudden we were together in the house and during that time I started to make the movie, too. So there was sort of this coming together. Us talking about what we were going through, our issues, and looking at what my parents had been through, too, in a way I hadn’t looked at it before.”
In addition to opening up about their separation, Stiller and Taylor give a glimpse into what their relationship was like at the start, after first meeting while filming a TV pilot called Heat Vision and Jack. At the time, Stiller remembers thinking, “I don’t want to become my parents,” having watched the famous comedians navigate their relationship while also working together.
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Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor in 2024.
But just like his parents, Stiller and Taylor have made it work.
“I really appreciated being able to be at this point in our relationship where we can talk about all this stuff and how there were so many elements in our relationship that in a way mirrored my parents’ relationship that I wasn’t even aware of,” Ben told PEOPLE at the Oct. 5 New York Film Festival premiere of what he learned about his wife through the making of the film. “And she’s always had this amazing perspective on things like that. And so I was just grateful that we were able to talk about this stuff and be here together now at this point in time.”
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost will screen in select theaters beginning on Oct. 17 and will be available to stream Apple TV on Oct. 24.
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