It’s a focker-byrnes meeting!
Ben Stiller, Robert de Niro, Teri Polo and director Jay Roach met for the 25th anniversary of “Meet the Parents”, a comedy of errors on the male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) who endures a lot of painfully clumsy Hijinx during the visit of his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. De Niro embodies the father of the character of Polo, Greg byrnes, a retired CIA agent who loves cats who governs with well-being (perhaps?) But iron fist. They met at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in Manhattan as part of this year’s Tribeca Festival, co-founded by De Niro and Jane Rosenthal in 2002.
“It’s so fun to hear laughter in a theater with a 25 -year -old comedy,” said Stiller during Q&R after the screening. “It still works.”
Although a quarter of a century has passed since “meeting the parents”, Stiller notes that the public continues to associate him with Greg Finger. He admits that he does not always do love When people in nature have the name by the name of his character.
“When someone shouts” Focher! ” In the street, this does not necessarily seem respectful, ”said Stiller, laughing. “Whenever I am treated with a male nurse,” he added, “I feel a connection.”
On stage, Roach reminded Stiller that he was almost never in the film. Steven Spielberg was in talks to make the film with Jim Carrey as the main role. When the duo chose to leave the project, Roach was hired as a filmmaker and motionless as a star.
“”[Jim Carrey] was going to be me? Said Stiller. I totally forgot this part.
Meanwhile, Polo joined the cast as the best half of Stiller’s fiancée at the last minute. “It was really late in the casting process, a few days before starting to shoot,” recalls Roach. “She was thrown away with these heavyweights.”
Polo joked saying that she had passed the whole shoot “just seated there, listening and reacting” to the whole around her. She remembers that from Niro had told him that he does not approach comedy differently from him.
“He said:” It’s the same thing, it’s honestly in which you say the line. You don’t try to be funny. You say it and think it really “, said Polo.
“Meet The Parents” was a commercial success, totaling more than $ 330 million worldwide against a budget of $ 55 million. The quartet returned for the 2004 suite “Meet the Fockers”, which presented the parents of Greg (Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman) who teach the public of the family’s bathroom in a memorable way: “If it’s yellow, leave it soft; If it is brown, rinse it. ” A third film, “Little Fockers” of 2010, was critical but managed to win $ 310 million at the box office.
Now the “Meet The Parents” universe is growing again. A fourth film is in development with Ariana Grande among the new members of the distribution. Stiller teased the oven, saying they needed an “organic reason” to review these characters.
“What stimulated the idea is that I have the age that Bob made when we made the first film,” said Stiller. “It was like a mirror of the first film, where one of my children thought to introduce his person to the family.”
Although they did not share details on the plot, from Niro revealed that he had read the script. “The script is really fun,” he shared. “I can’t wait to be there.”
In fact, from Niro claims that he has been pressure for another suite for years now. “When we filmed the last,” he said, “I was sitting with Ben and [screenwriter] John Hamburg. I said, “Let’s start writing the next one now. And they hummed me. Now we are finally doing the next one.
