{"id":94944,"date":"2025-08-25T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94944\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:46:07","slug":"ben-stiller-says-pitching-titanic-2-scarier-than-playing-tom-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94944\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller says pitching Titanic 2 scarier than playing Tom Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it existed and before becoming a mere data point in a sea of Ridiculousness reruns, the MTV Movie Awards<\/a> were a modest television event. With a mix of general basic cable weirdness and the gall to give viewers a say in the winners, the show was often unpredictable and quite funny, giving comedians even more leeway to be themselves, in addition to access to major stars. Having hosted the 1996 awards, which saw Seven win Best Picture and Wes Anderson win Best New Filmmaker for Bottle Rocket, Ben Stiller would regularly return for sketches designed to help loosen up the luminaries in the crowd, with two of his most memorable appearances coming at the expense of Hollywood\u2019s most powerful.<\/p>\n

Stiller\u2019s award show characters generally have a longer cultural footprint than expected. He infamously created the character Derek Zoolander for the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards. Reminiscing about bits of MTV Movie Awards past with Seth Rogen on a recent Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>, Stiller discussed playing Tom Cruise\u2019s stunt double for the 2000 MTV Movie Awards. Happy Sad host Josh Horowitz asked how scary it is to do a Tom Cruise laugh six inches from the man\u2019s face. But Stiller didn\u2019t recall any nervousness. \u201cIt was happening in the moment. He was laughing, and then I started laughing, then he started laughing more, then I started laughing more. He was open to it.\u201d But while Stiller left his honeymoon early so he could say the immortal line, \u201cThis mission just got a hell of a lot more impossibler,\u201d in front of John Woo and Tom Cruise, another movie award bit, he admits, was much more impossibler.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou also did a great bit where you pitched Titanic 2 to James Cameron,\u201d Rogen said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, with Vince [Vaughn],\u201d Stiller said. \u201cThat was much scarier. [Cameron is] the most intimidating guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogen is referring to a bit from the 1998 MTV Movie Awards in which Stiller and Vaughn play executives attempting to convince Cameron to make Titanic: The Sequel. In the clip, Vaughn and Stiller blue-sky a follow-up where Titanic\u2019s passengers survive due to an air pocket, creating an underwater utopia like the one in The Abyss. They call their air pocket \u201cTitani,\u201d which, honestly, doesn\u2019t sound that different from some Na\u2019vi nonsense. Stiller also suggests they recast Leonardo DiCaprio with Buddy Hackett, which is a good idea. Cameron responds, \u201cYou know what I think? It blows.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it existed and before becoming a mere data point in a sea of Ridiculousness reruns, the MTV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-94944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}