Ben Stiller On Child-like Joy of Shooting 'Nutcrackers'

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00:00Atlas, Arlo, Yuli, and Homer are the four sons of Carrie and Jeff. Carrie's one of my

00:06closest college friends. We went to school together. She worked on my first few

00:09movies and then left the movie business to go be a fifth-generation farmer and

00:14have these amazing kids. So then I spent a little time with these guys and

00:19immediately swept away with their their charms and charisma.

00:22Shooting the movie at the boys house it was like we're so in their world and

00:27it's so it's like a it's like a wonderland there because it's just right

00:31it's like all just like animals and and dirt bikes and bicycles and and just

00:38like fun is happening there all the time and and so I felt like I was always in

00:41their world and they were always showing me stuff and and you know we had

00:46fireworks we had bonfires like in the movie I mean it was all like on my

00:50birthday they did fireworks celebration which was incredible. It was only like

00:55two days into the movie and I was like this is like the happiest place on earth.