Ben Stiller Reveals His Inner Greg Focker as His Children Grow Up: “You Want to Be Protective”

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Ben Stiller Reveals His Inner Greg Focker as His Children Grow Up: “You Want to Be Protective”

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Ben Stiller is no longer simply playing an anxious, protective father on screen. As his children with wife Christine Taylor—Ella Stiller, 24, and Quinlin Stiller, 21—have entered adulthood, the actor has recognized more of Greg Focker in himself. Speaking exclusively to E! News at the film’s world premiere on Nov.

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11, Stiller explained that he was once a relatively relaxed parent. “I always was more of a Greg guy in terms of, I didn’t have a lot of rules and stuff like that,” he said. That approach became harder to maintain when Ella and Quinlin began building independent lives.

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