Despite a petition urging Ben Stiller to cut scenes featuring Donald and Melania Trump out of “Zoolander”, Ben Stiller says their appearance in the comedy is a reflection of the time in which the film was made.
Stiller, who also directed the 2001 movie, explains that the Trumps were only mega-rich celebrities at the time when they attended the VH1 Fashion Awards. “We were shooting at the now-defunct VH1 Fashion Awards…and as people were coming up the red carpet, we pulled them aside and asked them to talk about Derek Zoolander, and so Trump and Melania did that,” he tells The Daily Beast‘s podcast.
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