Ben Stiller had the impression that he “failed” during the separation of his wife Christine

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor open their 2017 separation.

In his new documentary, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is lost, Stiller, 59, returns to the relationship of his parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara – Sur de la Scene. In doing so, he made comparisons between their six decades of marriage and his relationship with Taylor, 54, which he married in 2000.

Like his own parents, Ben and Taylor worked together at the start of their relationship, meeting for the first time during the shooting of a television pilot called Warm vision and jack. After making the knot in 2000, the two played as love interests in 2001 Zolander and appeared again together in 2004 Dodgeball.

Jerry and Meara also worked in close collaboration with their act of comedy Stiller and Meara taking them to stages across the country, including 36 appearances on The Ed Sullivan show. By looking back on the career of his parents – which, for many years, was intertwined – Ben wonders: “What kind of toll that took their real relationship?”

When Ben and Taylor’s relationship started, he remembers thinking: “I don’t want to become my parents.”

“I have the impression that there was history and I think that a lot was your experience of what it finally meant for a relationship that it could put additional pressure when you eat, sleep, breathe that way,” Taylor tells her husband in the documentary. “I also felt like there was a fear of you for me what it would look like the outside world. I mean it was very busy. ”

In May 2017, after almost two decades of marriage, Ben and Taylor announced their separation, saying to people in a joint declaration: “With love and respect for others, and the 18 years that we spent together as a couple, we made the decision to separate. Our priority will continue to enforce our children at that time.”

By looking back at that time, Ben said that the whole test made him feel like a failure.

“When we separated my feeling, it was like” Oh, I fail on this subject “and look at my parents, they have this incredible marriage of more than 50 years and I cannot be up to the task,” said Ben to Taylor in the documentary.

After their separation, the parents of two were seen together on numerous occasions, including the 2019 EMMYS where Taylor was on the bridge to support Ben who was nominated for the exceptional production for a limited series, a film or a special dramatic for Escape in Dannemora.

In 2022, Ben revealed an interview with Squire That the couple had rekindled their romantic relationship during the pandemic while their family of four was again in the same house together.

He is thinking about the decision in the documentary explaining: “Suddenly we were together in the house and during this time, I started making the film too. So there is a kind of reception. We are talking about what we were going through, our problems and the gaze of what my parents had experienced in a way that I had not examined it before. ”

After her October 5, 2025 at the New York Film Festival, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is lost Screen in some theaters from October 17 and will be available to broadcast Apple TV + on October 24.