The actor Ben Stiller60, spoke a little about the experience of working with Jim Carrey on the set of “O Pentelho”. The suspense comedy was directed by Stiller in 1994, and the actor revealed the biggest challenges of the partnership with the comedian at the Tribeca Festival in New York on Friday (12).
At the event, he spoke to People magazine about the film, alongside Matthew Broderick, who also starred in the film.
“I had never worked with , and Jim is this kind of energetic person,” he said. “He is a force of nature, who arrives with a very different style of work.”
In “The Pentelho”, Jim Carrey plays cable TV installer Chip Douglas, a bit of a social misfit. Broderick plays Steven Kovacs, a lonely and quiet restaurant owner whose attempt to make a new friend leads him into Chip’s increasingly disturbing and manipulative world.
Produced by Judd Apatow, the film also featured big names in the industry, such as Jack Black, Leslie Mann, Owen Wilson, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick and others. Asked in the interview if he thought the group was a “special collection of talent at that time” during Friday’s panel, Stiller said that, at the time, it was much simpler than that.
“I mean, at the time it was just our friends (…). It’s just people you know and want to work with,” he said of the now star-studded cast of the 1996 comedy.
