{"id":24854,"date":"2025-09-16T01:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24854\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:16:06","slug":"ben-stiller-raves-about-focker-in-law-new-co-star-ariana-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24854\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller raves about \u2018Focker-in-law\u2019 new co-star Ariana Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Stiller raves about his \u2018Focker-in-law\u2019 new co-star Ariana Grande<\/p>\n

Ben Stiller, who is set to reprise his role as Greg Focker in Meet the Parents sequel Focker-in-Law, praised his co-star Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n

The Severance producer gave an insight into what it has been like working with the Wicked star.<\/p>\n

“What’s surprising, and maybe not really surprising, is how amazingly she blended in,” Stiller told the E! News. “She’s such a pro, she’s so funny, she’s so talented, obviously as a singer, but also she was so funny and amazing in Wicked.”<\/p>\n

He continued, “What she\u2019s doing in this movie is very unique, it’s a very unique character, and we’re having a great time and just like to work with her.”<\/p>\n

Stiller also seemingly hinted towards the return of Barbra Streisand return as Roz from 2004’s Meet the Fockers and 2010’s Little Fockers.<\/p>\n

“I mean, we all would love it, we\u2019re in process,” Stiller teased.<\/p>\n

The Meet the Parents film series started with the 2000 comedy written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach.<\/p>\n

Stiller’s Greg is a nurse who suffers a series of unfortunate events while visiting his in-laws.<\/p>\n

The Focker-in-law is set to release on November 25, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller raves about his \u2018Focker-in-law\u2019 new co-star Ariana Grande Ben Stiller, who is set to reprise his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-24854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}